By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS — Lawyers for two people involved in a January collision with a Yachats ambulance have notified the nonprofit ambulance company and the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District they intend to sue one or both organizations. The notices were not unexpected. Kelsey R. Seibel, 25, of Waldport died and Fokus Simmons, […]
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In aftermath of massive Ziggurat House fire, group of Tenmile residents approach Yachats Fire board about annexation
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – A contingent of Tenmile residents attended the Yachats Fire Protection District’s regular board meeting Monday to request the area be annexed into the agency’s fire protection zone. The request comes in the wake of the devastating fire Thursday that left the neighborhood’s iconic Ziggurat House in ruins and laid […]
Yachats fire board approves cost-of-living raises for professional staff
After going two years without raises, firefighters, paramedics and other non-management employees of the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District are getting cost-of-living bumps in their pay. The fire district board on Monday approved cost-of-living raises of 3.5 percent for 2018 and then 2.9 percent for 2019. It will go to staff who are still with […]
Yachats Fire District struggles to contain cost of new station
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Problems with the site of the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District’s new $8.3 million station along U.S. Highway 101 have forced the district to make dozens of changes to the project to keep it within budget. The 10,000-square foot station is being built on six acres on the north edge of Yachats […]
Unionization vote complicates Yachats Fire raises
The board of the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District on Wednesday approved 3.5 percent cost-of-living pay increases for four employees retroactive to Dec. 1. But anticipated raises for the department’s seven career firefighters couldn’t be approved because they voted to unionize in August and negotiations for the district’s first collective bargaining agreement haven’t begun. The […]