Learn how to help during a disaster in Community Emergency Response Team classes offered by South County Fire in spring 2020.

Following a major disaster, firefighters and other first responders may not be able to meet the heavy demand for their services. People will have to rely on each other to meet many lifesaving and life-sustaining needs.

The South County Fire Board of Commissioners swore in five members, unanimously re-elected Jim Kenny as chair, and elected Bob Meador as vice chair for 2020 at a meeting on Tuesday, January 7th.

On Wednesday, December 4th, the Snohomish County Council unanimously approved a fireworks ban in the densely populated Southwest County Urban Growth Area beginning in 2021.

Twenty-three students completed Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training at South County Fire to learn how to help in a major disaster on September 22nd.

Learn how to help during a disaster in a three-day Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) course offered by South Snohomish County Fire and Rescue.

CERT members learn basic disaster preparedness skills so they can assist others during a disaster.

On June 13th, South County Fire filed a petition with the Snohomish County Council seeking a fireworks ban within the regional fire authority’s unincorporated service area.

The cities in this area already have bans in place, but fireworks remain legal in unincorporated communities.

A woman was seriously injured in an apartment fire in the Martha Lake area west of Mill Creek on Thursday night, May 2nd.

Fire damage left the second-floor apartment uninhabitable and displaced the injured woman and her son, who was away at the time of the fire.