March 3, 2022, 6:04am Clark County News
Three weeks after Vancouver voters approved Proposition 2, a tax hike to improve fire services, Vancouver Fire Chief Brennan Blue is asking the Vancouver City Council for supplemental funding to begin implementing changes promised to voters. Read story
February 8, 2022, 9:50pm Clark County News
The Vancouver Fire Department’s fire and emergency services may receive about $15 million annually in property taxes with preliminary voter approval of Proposition 2. Read story
December 30, 2021, 3:37pm Clark County News
The city of Battle Ground has upped the impact fee on new development to fund expansion for Clark County Fire District 3, which also serves Brush Prairie and surrounding rural areas. Read story
August 30, 2021, 5:09pm Clark County News
The Vancouver Fire Marshal’s Office received nearly $220,000 in federal funds this year to continue its recurring outreach campaign aimed at preventing residential fires. Read story
August 13, 2021, 10:21am Clark County News
The Clark County Fire Marshal's Office is offering a reward for information identifying the person the agency believes started the July 5 fire at the Old Cherry Grove Church in Battle Ground that also destroyed the house attached and the yard full of collectables — including hundreds of mannequins. Read story
August 9, 2021, 6:05am Clark County News
Last year’s annexation of Battle Ground residents into Fire District 3 has provided more firefighters and equipment to protect 40,000 people and 90 square miles of central Clark County, including Hockinson, Brush Prairie and Venersborg. Read story
July 6, 2021, 4:18pm Clark County News
The night of the Fourth of July was slower than usual for some fire agencies in Clark County with almost all of the county under a fireworks ban. Read story
July 5, 2021, 6:06pm Clark County News Free
An old church and the house next door burned down in an early morning fire in Battle Ground that officials say could've been sparked by fireworks. Read story
June 12, 2021, 5:56am Community
Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue acquired a new fire engine at Station 29. To mark the occasion, Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue performed a “push-in” ceremony at Station 29 on May 25. Read story
April 24, 2021, 5:55am Community
Instead of “flipping pancakes” at their annual open house and pancake breakfast, firefighters at Fire District 3 held a fundraiser for Juliann Anderson, whose father, Jon Couture, is one of the district’s fire commissioners. Read story
