My Everett News

On Wednesday the Everett City Council met the four newest firefighters in the Everett Fire Department. Alex Hornbeck, Sam Lowe, Jesse Stacy and Chris Stepanski were introduced to the council by Everett Fire Chief Murray Gordon. Gordon, who will be retiring next month after 40 years with the Everett Fire Department also introduced Mike Calvert […]

It was a very busy Christmas Day for the Everett Fire Department with 3 structure fires in 24 hours. First was a cooking fire that burned the back porch at a house in the 8100 block of Beverly Boulevard. That happened around 3:30 PM. The fire was contained to the back porch and there were […]

Kitchen incidents are a leading cause of fires in homes. Especially on holidays. Today one family’s Thanksgiving suffered when a pot of oil caught fire on a stove top. The person cooking used a nearby pile of clothes to cover the oil fire. That set the clothing on fire. Crews from Everett Fire were able […]

Fast work by Everett Firefighters kept a stubborn porch fire from advancing into a house early Saturday morning. Around 5:30 AM the call came in of a porch fire at a house in the 8100 block of Florida in south Everett. Arriving fire crews saw smoke billowing from the front porch. They were able to […]

Editor’s Update 3:30 PM: I just got off the phone with Kurt Mills, Executive Director at SNOPAC911 in Everett. He was at a conference but wanted to call to express his concern with my characterization of the failure of dispatchers to be able tone a second or third alarm during the June 4th fire on […]

A Fire Watch had been imposed on the building at 101 E. Marine View Drive in Everett but the person who was supposed to be on watch had left the area according to Everett Fire Officials. Here’s the latest in a press release put out this afternoon by the City of Everett… Everett firefighters Monday […]

Had time today to put together audio and photos of Saturday Night’s 3-Alarm Fire on East Marine View Drive. Hats off to SNOPAC911, Everett Fire Department, Everett Police and all of the mutual aid crews from throughout Snohomish County. More than 100 professionals involved and not a single injury reported. I took audio from about […]

Sadly, 3rd time’s a charm for fire at recycling center. A 3 Alarm fire destroyed a recycling center next to the Snohomish River in north Everett Saturday night. This was the 3rd time Everett Firefighters have been called to the facility for a fire this week. Here’s our story and photos from Wednesday June 1st. […]

A reptile store on Hewitt Avenue was saved by the fast work of Everett Firefighters this morning. The store, located on the street level of what’s known as the Gable Furniture Building in the 2900 block of Hewitt Avenue, was filling with smoke as Everett Fire crews arrived. It took some time but firefighters were […]

The Everett Fire Department has responded to multiple brush fire calls this weekend. In spite of a really rainy winter it doesn’t take much to start a fire. The brush fires have been minor so far and near high vehicle traffic areas. Think back to the number of fires we had last summer and that […]