Spokane County Fire District 3 honors Ramos and Swift with 2014 firefighter and officer of the year awards

Spokane County Fire District 3 honored a pair of volunteer firefighters at its annual Firefighter Appreciation Banquet March 21.

Firefigther/EMT Jolissa Ramos and Lieutenant Firefighter Luke Swift were recipients of the 2014 Firefighter and Officer of the Year awards respectively. Ramos is a five-year member of Four Lakes Fire Station No. 22 and an instructor at Spokane Community College while Swift works installing fire and security alarms for Allied Security and has been stationed at Spangle Fire Station No. 36 for six and a half years.

"We absolutely could not operate without our part-time,...