In Southeast Washington, the City of Clarkston is starting its own ambulance service but appears to be under staffing its response. As a result, surrounding areas have been getting beat up and/or no longer interested in maintaining a “Mutual Aid” agreement with the City of Clarkston. This story sounds familiar already… I guess some people...
Monthly Archives: October 2009
City of Edmonds to End Its Fire Department
A hallmark of City of Lacey fire department comparisons is throwing in the towel on its own fire department. Citing increasing costs of providing fire service and the fact that other surrounding cities such as Mountlake Terrace saved money by allowing county fire agencies to provide the service, the city of Edmonds...
And the “Graemey” goes to…
For those of you who didn’t tune into channel 3 last night, the Lacey Mayor added to the agenda, just hours before the meeting, critical items that quite clearly had been planned for weeks. This determined lack of respect for the process of involving the community in...
We Are Not Against Business!
The fact is that if you took the title, and all of the ”union” attributes and trimmings away from the Lacey Fire Fighters, you wouldn’t see an ounce of difference in current events. It would still be a group of men and women who work daily as service professionals, significantly...
Yakima incident proves that emergency services must keep up with growth.
Its the same deal here…We’re just waiting for our incident. God willing, no one will die but the risk is clearly there. Click here for the link.
The Day Lacey Shook: February 28, 2001
The Nisqually earthquake of February 28, 2001, was a remarkable day in Lacey, Washington especially for local fire fighters. At the time, Lacey Fire District had more staffing than we do today but ran only about 4000 a year and a busy day was a 12 to 16 calls a day; all...