Snohomish County Fire District 1 responded to 378 calls the week of March 1–7: 313 emergency medical aid calls, 25 motor vehicle collisions, 19 fires, 8 service calls, 4 natural gas leaks and 9 automatic fire alarms. The following calls were in or near Edmonds: March 5 HOUSE FIRE: At 6:10 a.m., a house fire [...]
Area police agencies, including Edmonds police and the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office, will be looking for impaired drivers from now through March 18 during the St. Patrick’s “Drive Hammered, Get Nailed” campaign “With St. Patrick’s falling on a weekend, area liquor establishments may have more customers drinking too much ‘green beer’ than in past years,” [...]
The City of Edmonds released data Tuesday demonstrating the joint efforts between the city and Snohomish County Fire District 1 to save energy at the Public Safety Campus at 250 5th Ave. N. — essentially the public safety building housing the Edmonds Police Department plus Fire Station No. 17. In a nutshell, the cooperative effort between these two entities resulted in electricity [...]
The Regional Fire Authority Planning Committee exploring fire service consolidation in South Snohomish County will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 7, in the Brackett Room at Edmonds City Hall, 121 5th Ave. N., Edmonds. Brier, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Mill Creek, Mountlake Terrace, Mukilteo, Woodway and Snohomish County Fire Districts 1 and 7 formed the exploratory [...]
Fire personnel were expected to be at the scene most of the day extinguishing hotspots and investigating the cause of a fire that caused heavy damage to a Woodway home early Monday morning. The fire was reported at 6:10 a.m. at a house off a long, gravel driveway in the 11400 block of North Dogwood [...]
During the month of March, when you visit Revelations Yogurt for a tasty treat, you can also help support victims of domestic violence in our community. Employees at Revelations will be donating their tips to the Edmonds Police Foundation, with all funds supporting the needs and initiatives of the Edmonds Domestic Violence Program. Revelations Yogurt is located [...]
Thursday’s explosion and fire at the Alderwood Wastewater facility near Edmonds has been ruled accidental by the Snohomish County Fire Marshal’s Office. The explosion and fire was reported by workers at the site, located at 6315 Picnic Point Road, at about 11 a.m. after a cloud of propane vapors ignited. The incident occurred while a [...]
Updated Friday, Feb. 24 from Edmonds police spokesperson Sgt. Mike Blackburn: The ” neighboring city” mentioned in the earlier report is actually Mountlake Terrace. According to Blackburn, the suspect was interviewed again Thursday by detectives from Edmonds and Mountlake Terrace police departments. Following that interview, the suspect was arrested again for possession of stolen property [...]
Updated with new information at 6:53 p.m. Five workers were injured in a propane explosion at a construction site north of Edmonds Thursday morning. Damage from the blast is expected to total at least $1 million, including the two buildings under construction, building materials, the propane tank and truck, and a construction trailer. All five [...]
A 30-year-old Brier man couldn’t have made it much easier for Edmonds police to pinpoint him as a suspect in a commercial burglary discovered early Wednesday morning in the Firdale Village area. For starters, the man–who was stopped by an alert Edmonds officer responding to a burglary alarm in the 9600 block of Firdale Avenue [...]
A family of four was displaced from their Edmonds home by an electrical fire that started in the attic Monday morning. The residents reported the fire around 8:55 a.m. at their split-entry home in the 7900 block of 218th Street Southwest. “Family members reported smelling smoke around 3 a.m., but couldn’t find the source. They [...]
A group of Edmonds’ finest joined nearly 500 other participants in last Saturday’s Polar Plunge at Seattle’s South Lake Union. The event brought law enforcement officers from around the state together in an effort to raise support and funding for Special Olympics Washington. Edmonds Police Sgt. Mark Marsh partnered with Detective Brian McIntyre and Officers [...]
Snohomish County Fire District 1 responded to 324 calls the week of Feb. 9-15: 272 emergency medical aid calls, 18 motor vehicle collisions, 12 fires, 11 service calls, 2 natural gas leaks and 9 automatic fire alarms. The following calls were in or near Edmonds: Feb. 12 APARTMENT FIRE: At 3:33 a.m., an apartment fire was [...]
Residents of Prestige Care and Rehabilitation in Edmonds collected more than 100 teddy bears and stuffed animals for Snohomish County Fire District 1 crews to give to children in emergency situations. Firefighters from Edmonds Fire Station 16 visited the facility on Feb. 14 to thank residents and accept their donations on behalf of Fire District [...]
Edmonds residents trying to get around in the Olympic View Drive neighborhood Tuesday night may have noticed the road being blocked. Here’s the scoop from Edmonds Police Department and Snohomish County Fire District 1 spokespeople: Police were dispatched at 7:22 p.m. Tuesday for a rollover collision at Puget Drive and Olympic View Drive involving a [...]
Edmonds police have released additional information regarding the apartment fire in the 7600 block of 230th Street Southwest early Sunday morning. According to Sgt. Mike Blackburn, Edmonds officers were at the apartment complex on an unrelated unrelated matter when they observed flames coming from another building within the same complex at 3:34 a.m. ”Cpl. Mike Richardson [...]
Here’s a follow-up to our story from last Wednesday, when a suicidal Mountlake Terrace man ended up at the front door of My Edmonds News headquarters on the shores of Lake Ballinger. According to Mountlake Terrace Police Commander Doug Hansen, the 22-year-old man — who swam across the lake to the Edmonds side after stabbing [...]
The Edmonds Police Department has identified the police officer who heroically entered a burning apartment building a block off Highway 99 early Sunday morning to wake up residents so that they could be safely evacuated. She is 33-year-old Jodi Sackville. A three-and-a-half-year veteran, Sackville ran from door to door to wake up residents at the [...]
Updated at 10:32 a.m. with condition of police officer, possible cause of fire. A fire caused more than $120,000 and displaced three people from their apartment in Edmonds early Sunday morning. The fire was reported around 3:30 a.m. at an apartment complex in the 7600 block of 230th Street Southwest. “Police arrived on the scene first [...]
Snohomish County Fire District 1 responded to 377 calls the week of Feb. 2-8, 2012; 314 emergency medical aid calls, 20 motor vehicle collisions, 19 fires, 7 service calls, 4 gas leaks, 1 hazardous materials call and 12 automatic fire alarms. The following calls were in or near Edmonds: Feb. 5 COLLISION: At 10:04 p.m., a [...]
Snohomish County Sherriff”s detectives are asking for the public’s help in their investigation into the shooting of an alleged burglary suspect in unincorporated Edmonds Tuesday night. Here’s the latest information released by the Sheriff’s office Thursday afternoon: Major Crimes Unit detectives continue follow up work on this death investigation. A search warrant was served at [...]
It’s not often that news literally ends up on your doorstep, but that’s what happened at My Edmonds News headquarters on the shores of Lake Ballinger Wednesday morning. I was working at the computer around 9:45 a.m. when I heard a loud noise outside the front door. I looked through the window to investigate and [...]
Editor’s note: We first posted this information in January, and are reposting it following Tuesday night’s shooting of a burglary suspect in Esperance. The Edmonds Police Department is reminding citizens that they can play a key role in helping police catch suspects in residential burglaries. Usually, a suspect will ring the door bell or knock [...]
Thanks to increased enforcement and investigation, Edmonds police on Tuesday reported a 41-percent decrease in residential burglaries from late 2011 — when a large spike in home burglaries was reported – to February 2012 According to police spokesman Sgt. Mike Blackburn, in the past two months Edmonds police have arrested several individuals for burglary, “including [...]
We received an inquiry from a reader Saturday night about police shining spotlights in yards along Sunset Avenue, so we asked Edmonds police what was happening at that time. According to police spokesman Sgt. Mike Blackburn, at 9:14 p.m. Saturday officers were dispatched to a reported fistfight that broke out at a teen party in [...]
Snohomish County Fire District 1 responded to 325 calls the week of Jan. 26 through Feb. 1: 252 emergency medical aid calls, 34 motor vehicle collisions, 13 fires, 8 service calls, 1 natural gas leak and 17 automatic fire alarms. The following calls were in or near Edmonds: Jan. 26 COLLISION: At 5:44 p.m., a [...]
The Regional Fire Authority Planning Committee exploring fire service consolidation in south Snohomish County will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, at the Ballinger Golf Course Clubhouse, 23000 Lakeview Dr., Mountlake Terrace. Brier, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Mill Creek, Mountlake Terrace, Mukilteo, Woodway and Snohomish County Fire Districts 1 and 7 formed the exploratory RFA Planning [...]
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