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Simplified Chinese- Seattle Earthquake Response: Firefighting, Search & Rescue, Hazardous Materials

An overview of the City of Seattle’s earthquake response plans and how people can prepare themselves for earthquakes. This webinar was conducted on June 16, 2021. This video includes captions in Simplified Chinese. This webinar is available with captioning in additional languages. Korean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG2AXi6fQpU Vietnamese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr4A8JCIcgY Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4wWFfwzXSg Simplified Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdF5rYuQw24 Traditional Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1vye8bk4m4 English: …

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Technical Rescue Training

Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue and Newberg Fire conduct joint tech rescue training drill at Westrock Mill in Newberg.

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Multiple people shot in downtown Seattle

Police said an argument between at least two people escalated into a shooting. One person was killed and seven others were injured.

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Traditional Chinese- Seattle Earthquake Response: Firefighting, Search & Rescue, Hazardous Materials

An overview of the City of Seattle’s earthquake response plans and how people can prepare themselves for earthquakes. This webinar was conducted on June 16, 2021. This video includes captions in Traditional Chinese. This webinar is available with captioning in additional languages. Korean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG2AXi6fQpU Vietnamese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr4A8JCIcgY Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4wWFfwzXSg Simplified Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdF5rYuQw24 Traditional Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1vye8bk4m4 English: …

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Mayor hosts North Seattle Safe & Healthy Communities virtual town hall

Mayor Jenny A. Durkan hosts a virtual town hall of the COVID-19 public health emergency for residents of North Seattle to hear about their specific needs during the pandemic. Representatives from Public Health – Seattle/King County, Seattle Police Department, Seattle Fire Department, Human Services Department, and Seattle Department of Transportation will join Mayor Durkan for …

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Brand new Seattle Fire battalion truck returning to quarters

Earlier this summer Seattle Fire replaced three of their command SUVs (DEP1, SAFT2 AND STAF10) with new Ford Explorer Utility SUVs. Now, they’re replacing the Battalion Chief SUVs with new utility trucks on a Ford F-250 chassis. So far, at least Battalion 2 and 4 have received the new units. Here’s some footage of the …

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2021 Civilian Employee of the Year: Christa Williams

Civilian employee of the Year is awarded to the non-uniform member who carries out responsibilities in an exemplary fashion, always promoting a can-do attitude. Christa is awesome. Congratulations Christa Williams, civilian employee of the year.

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3 PSE workers hurt in natural gas leak explosion in North Seattle

Residents and businesses in North Seattle were evacuated Friday due to a natural gas leak. Seattle Fire said a fire ignited as PSE was working to secure a gas line.

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Seattle Fire Rescue 80, Rescue 1 Aerial, Battalion 6 and Aid 86 responding!

On October 22nd, 2022, I captured footage of multiple SFD units responding to a water rescue call at Golden Gardens. I’d just parked in my driveway when the call came in over PulsePoint, so I was able to get on the scene fairly quickly (although the Station 18 units still beat me there). Unfortunately, this …

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2021 – Customer Service Award: Trina Knable

All public sector employees have an element of customer service to their jobs. Yet some people go above and beyond our high standard in how they perform their duties. We recognize Trina Knable, Account Technician III, as the 2021 Customer Service Award winner.

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