On March 10, 2013, two firefighters from Snohomish County Fire District 7 will race up 69 floors of the Columbia Center in downtown Seattle to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. 

The annual Scott Firefighter Stair Climb features firefighters from all over the world as they climb 1,311 steps in full bunker gear.

Bill Ekse and Jeremy Karapostoles will be representing Fire District 7 in the climb this year.

From February 16th to 28th, 2013, Snohomish County Fire District 7 firefighters responded to 154 calls, 44 of which were in Mill Creek.

• Fires: 10
• Medical Aid: 115
• Motor Vehicle Collisions: 14
• Service Calls: 15
• Total = 154

The City Council discussed jaywalking on 132nd Street SE, joining the North Sound Metro SWAT Team, an East Gateway Urban Village development agreement, and storm water drainage systems at their regular meeting on Tuesday, February 26, 2013.

Snohomish County Fire District 7 was dispatched to an apartment fire in the 1200 block of Mill Creek Boulevard just after 2 a.m. on February 28, 2013. Crews arrived to find smoke coming from the three-story apartment building.

Residents in the first-floor apartment where the fire started were alerted to the fire by smoke alarms and evacuated the building. A neighbor quickly pulled the fire alarm alerting the rest of the building to the fire.