Local Briefly: Woman, 18, badly injured in Stanwood wreck
Published 10:54 pm Thursday, March 27, 2008
STANWOOD — An 18-year-old woman was taken to Skagit Valley Hospital after sustaining critical injuries in a car accident in downtown Stanwood on Thursday afternoon.
The two-car accident happened near the intersection of 88th Avenue NW and 271st Street NW about 3:30 p.m.
The woman’s Mustang convertible was struck by a pickup truck heading south on 88th Avenue NW. The driver of the pickup was uninjured. Neither car had any passengers and there were no other injuries.
Aid crews requested that the woman be flown by helicopter to a Harborview hospital, but bad weather in Arlington grounded the chopper, said Darin Reid, assistant chief with the Stanwood-Camano Island Fire Department. Instead, she was taken by ambulance to the Mount Vernon hospital.
Lynnwood: EdCC fire causes little damage
A welder accidentally lit a tarp on fire Thursday morning at Edmonds Community College, drawing a heavy response from the fire department but causing little damage, officials said.
The welder was working on new construction on the campus when the fire was set by mistake, said Marybeth O’Leary, Lynnwood fire spokeswoman.
Crews used an extinguisher to put out the small fire, she said.
Smoke filled the school bookstore prior to opening hours and fire crews used fans to clear out the building, O’Leary said.
No one was hurt.
Everett: Most school districts got bad beef
Schools in nearly every district in Snohomish and Island counties had to destroy beef involved in last month’s recall of 143 million pounds from a California slaughterhouse.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a list Thursday of all school districts nationwide that received recalled beef.
In Snohomish and Island counties, the school districts that received recalled beef were Arlington, Snohomish, Mukilteo, South Whidbey, Granite Falls, Northshore, Oak Harbor, Stanwood-Camano, Coupeville, Lake Stevens, Lakewood, Darrington, Marysville, Edmonds, Everett and Monroe.
The Denney Juvenile Justice Center in Everett also received bad beef, according to the list.
From Herald staff reports
