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Mukilteo, fire district pact likely A proposed contract for fire services between the city and Fire District 1 is being reviewed by officials. By Rikki King Herald Writer
MUKILTEO — The city could be out of the fire protection business as soon as September. The Mukilteo City Council on Monday reviewed a proposed contract with Snohomish County
Fire District 1 to absorb the city’s fire department. The contract likely will go to a council vote within the next few weeks, Mayor Jennifer Gregerson said. The city also plans to hold an open house on the topic as the decision approaches, she said.
Newly elected council members need to be brought up to speed. “This is our first full discussion and the first of a few,” Gregerson said. By her math, the contract could save the city more than $12 million over 20 years. The contract will cost about $5 million a year. Mukilteo and the fire district have been in merger talks off and on for years. Fire District 1 serves most of
southwest Snohomish County and already contracts with the cities of Brier, Edmonds and Mountlake Terrace. In south county, only Mukilteo, Lynnwood and Bothell have kept their own city fire departments. The Mukilteo Fire Department in 2013 had the equivalent of 29.5 full-time employees, including 25 firefighters and paramedics. The 2013 budget was $4.3 million. Fire District 1 is expected to
hire all of Mukilteo’s firefighters and fire department employees, except for the fire chief. Former fire chief Mike Springer retired in May, and Assistant Fire Chief Brian McMahan has been serving as interim chief. McMahan may join Fire District 1, but that would be negotiated between him and the district, Gregerson said. See FIRE, back page, this section
Everett’s ‘happy-go-lucky’ flyer Traffic Boeing founder Bill Boeing first flew with Terah T. Maroney
stop death probed Police officials are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Anthony Koschei, who fled from Brier police on June 18. By Rikki King Herald Writer
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historian. “They were basically wood and linen.” Motors had become powerful enough to get the contraptions into the air, but their builders had little, if any, understanding of aerodynamic principles. Germany’s aviation industry led the world in that respect, something that would become painfully apparent to Allied flyers in the Great War. Maroney was born in Tennessee on March 7, 1880. In 1904, after time in Alabama where he worked as a mechanic, he moved to Montana, according to U.S. Census records and his account later given to The Everett Daily Herald. By 1912, Maroney had become a licensed pilot, according to a Montana newspaper account from the time. Like many of his contemporaries, he made money by performing aerial shows, offering rides to paying customers and giving flying lessons.
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After moving to Everett, Maroney stayed in the area and in 1915 gave Bill Boeing, founder of the Boeing Co., his first flight.
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EVERETT — It’s been a century since Everett’s first resident flyer arrived in town. The city hired Terah T. Maroney to perform an aerial show over the waterfront on July 4, 1914. He stayed in Everett and Seattle for at least a year, becoming the first man to take Bill Boeing up in an airplane. Maroney was a character typical of early aviation in America. He was part innovator, part showman, part huckster. In grainy photographs from the time, he is always smiling. Since the Wright brothers made the first powered flight in 1903, aviation had quickly spread across the country. But there wasn’t much of an aerospace industry, and flying was far from the science it is today. “Most planes that were flown then were probably home-built,” said Paul Spitzer, co-founder of the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild and a retired Boeing Co.
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the latest installment created a character based on her without her permission (Page A2). Lohan complained that the character is a totally inaccurate depiction of her, since it neither drunkenly vomits in public nor inadvertently exposes itself while disembarking from taxis. — Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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Terah T. Maroney, an early aviation pioneer, was hired to do an aerial show above Everett on July 4, 1914.
BRIER — A man who crashed a car and died in Lake Forest Park on June 18 had been fleeing from Brier police just moments before. Anthony Koschei, 31, lost control of the car and struck a tree about a mile away from where Brier police had tried to pull him over, officials said. The crash Anthony happened just Koschei inside Lake Forest Park city limits. At the time, Koschei had a warrant for his arrest for failing to report to his community corrections officer at the state Department of Corrections office in Lynnwood. The Lake Forest Park Police Department and the Washington State Patrol are investigating the collision. The Brier Police Department also plans an internal review. Brier police did not release any information about the collision until this week. The department’s news release was dated June 19
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