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With somewhere around 45 pounds of protective gear on my back during an 85 degree summer day, I felt like I was suffocating as I prepared to enter the smoking building filled with flames in front of me. The large, common-issue fireman’s oxygen mask only released oxygen when I inhaled, creating a vacuum when I exhaled that made it feel as if I could never get enough air. The feeling of fighting for air intensified as I struggled to fight the fire inside, until I was hyperventilating and gasped that I couldn’t stop the fire, I couldn’t breathe. On that day, I was able to exit the building, catch my breath and get a sip of water. But, for a real firefighter, there is no option to back out. I was one of dozens of policy makers, community leaders, firefighters and others gathered at the Bellevue Fire Department Training Center for the Fire Ops 101 event, which was being held for the first time in Bellevue on Monday, Aug. 3. Designed by the IAFF, an organization that represents more than 300,000 full-time professional firefighters and paramedics in the United States and Canada, the day-long event is meant to Allison DeAngelis, Bellevue Reporter show decision-makers just what a firefighter goes through on any given day. Bellevue firefighter Maia Earle emerges from a smoking building used for training during the Fire Ops 101 training SEE FIRE OPS, 7 on Monday, Aug. 3.
DNA helps police catch ‘prolific’ ex-con Bellevue burglar
Man confessed to 11 burglaries over two months See the results on page 11
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Bellevue Police detectives arrested a Bellevue man on Wednesday, July 29 who had recently been
released from prison and was linked to close to a dozen burglaries by three small blood droplets found at one crime scene. Officers responding to a burglary at a residence on the 6200 block of
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City Council contenders emerge from primary election General election to be held on Nov. 3 BY ALLISON DEANGELIS BELLEVUE REPORTER
The city of Bellevue shared low voter turnout with the rest of King County in Tuesday night’s initial primary election results. Almost 14,700 Bellevue residents had their ballots counted the night of Aug. 4, which was about 20 percent of the city’s 73,000 registered voters — meanwhile the county saw a 19.52 percent ballot return rate overall. Bellevue has two council seats in contention that received more than two candidates and consequently went into a primary runoff. In runoffs, the top two candidates to receive votes in the primary move on to the general election in November. Council Position No. 5, which is currently held by by Mayor Claudia Balducci, saw Vandana Slatter and Michelle Hilhorst take the top two spots. Slatter collected 6,168 votes or 42.74 percent of the votes overall. Hilhorst reeled in 5,233 votes or 36.26 percent of the overall votes. Incumbent Jennifer Robertson is running for re-election for Council Position No. 7, and received 10,976 votes or 77.52 percent of the overall votes. Contender Lyndon Hey-
129th Avenue S.E. in Bellevue on April 13 found the blood droplets on the floor of the victim’s residence. DNA testing identified the suspect as a man who had been recently released from prison after serving time for committing burglaries in Bellevue in 2013. He later confessed to the April 13 incident and an additional 10 burglaries. “This arrest would not have been possible without the teamwork of all those involved, from the patrol officers that responded to the initial
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burglary, the lab technicians at the WSP crime lab, our crime analyst, and the detectives assigned to this case, and it is because of their hard work that a prolific burglar is now behind bars,” said Major Pat Spak with the Bellevue Police Department. The April 13 burglary was one of 15 crimes committed within a two-month period and a one mile radius of the address which the suspect had been staying. The SEE BURGLAR, 8
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