MUKILTEO – A Community Transit bus knocked out power to businesses near the Mukilteo ferry dock early Wednesday when it backed into a power pole and knocked it over. No one was injured.
Power was out for about 10 hours after the accident, which took place between 5 and 6 a.m., said Neil Neroutsos, spokesman for the Snohomish County PUD.
The bus, on Route 112, slipped backward when parked in a bus lane on the hill just off the ferry dock, Community Transit spokesman Tom Pearce said.
The bus had stalled and the driver was outside flipping an alternate switch when it began to roll, Pearce said. The driver got out of the way, he said. No riders were on the bus.
Another bus was quickly brought to replace the disabled bus, Pearce said. Ferry traffic was funneled into one lane in both directions, but service was not interrupted.
Maltby: Sprinklers extinguish building fire
A building’s automatic sprinkler system prevented a fire in an exhaust duct Wednesday afternoon from doing serious structural damage, according to Snohomish County Fire District 7.
Firefighters responded about 1:35 p.m. to flames inside a building in the 21000 block of 87th Avenue SE. They evacuated the building and put out the fire, district spokeswoman Audrey Duncan said.
The fire, at the Maltby Industrial Park, was caused by sparks from metal being cut near the exhaust duct, Duncan said.
Damage to the building was estimated about $5,000. No one was injured.
The damage would have been worse had the building not had a sprinkler system, Battalion Chief Ralph Provenzano said.
The Woodinville Fire and Life Safety District also responded to the fire.
Brightwater buildings not on active faults
Two buildings that will house chemicals at the new Brightwater Sewage Treatment Plant in south Snohomish County are not being built on active faults, King County officials say.
King County expects to release a report today documenting there are no active faults under the building sites. That’s based on evidence of glacial activity at both locations 16,000 years ago, said Christie True, Brightwater project director. That’s 5,000 years older than the 11,000 year standard for active faults, she said.
The report is based on findings from five trenches King County dug over the summer to examine the soil below the building sites, True said.
Opponents of Brightwater and U.S. Geological Survey geologists have said in the past that early King County trenching results suggested that there could be active faults under the building sites.
From Herald staff reports
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