Seattle Fire warns: keep baseboard heaters at least 12 inches from furniture after a recent house fire. Portable heaters need even more space.

Three children were killed and three other people were seriously hurt in an apartment fire in Texas early Wednesday morning, ...

Next City reports on Seattle's single-stair housing reform, promoting affordable living while addressing safety concerns amid urban density challenges.

Blood Cancer United, formerly the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, hosted its 35th firefighter stairclimb March 8 at Seattle’s Columbia Tower. Blood Cancer United’s annual stairclimb is the largest ...

Members of the Everett Fire Department gather around battalion chief D.J. Neyens (red helmet), who is undergoing chemotherapy for multiple myeloma, as he prepares to climb the stairs to the 73rd floor ...

Uber drivers can sometimes reach patients quicker than ambulance crews can, Seattle Fire Lt. Charles Hubschman, a 911 dispatcher, said.

The rides have been happening since February 2022, when the city partnered with its private ambulance contractor to launch a 911 nurse line.

Experts say differences in nurse line oversight, response-time standards and dispatch protocols across U.S. cities could affect how quickly patients receive care ...

The Seattle Fire Department (SFD) says crews rescued one person early Monday morning after they got stuck on a hillside in ...

Several U-Haul trucks were destroyed after a fire blazed through a parking lot in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood Monday ...

Seattle firefighters launched a rope rescue operation Monday at Carkeek Park after a person was reported down a trail and ...

Firefighters from nearly a dozen agencies in southwest Washington fought a stubborn blaze in Kelso that engulfed a hotel over the weekend. The fire started at the Red Lion Hotel around 1:40 p.m. on ...