There were a total of 690 calls to Snohomish County Fire District 1 in the last two weeks from April 26th through May 9th.

The week of April 26th though May 2nd, the calls included 256 emergency medical aid calls, 14 fires, 15 motor vehicle collisions, five service calls, 10 automatic fire alarms, one natural gas leak and one carbon monoxide alarm. Following this report, the week of May 3rd through the 9th included 322 emergency medical aid calls, 24 motor vehicle collisions, 16 fires, 7 service calls, 2 natural gas leaks and 17 automatic fire alarms.

Firefighters had to rescue two juveniles on May 5th who had climbed to the roof of the Grace Baptist Church in the 17000 block of 13th Avenue W east of Lynnwood who were unable to get down on their own. Firefighters used a ladder to rescue them.

The full reports can be seen here.

The special election for Jay Inslee's former seat in Congress finally has its first candidates.

Carin Chase announced on Tuesday that she will be running for the seat in the "old" 1st Congressional District that Inslee vacated to run for governor. The daughter of State Sen. Maralyn Chase, she is currently the chair of the 32nd District Democrats.

A Bainbridge Island man, J. Byron Holcomb, has also filed to run for the seat. He is a lawyer on the island, which will no longer be a part of the district after January. He will also run as a Democrat. Another Democrat, former Lynnwood City Council member Lisa Utter, is collecting signatures so she can be put on the ballot, as well.

She is running to finish Inslee's term in Congress. Whomever wins the special election for Inslee's seat will only serve for a month, as redistricting has created a new 1st Congressional District. Many of the cities that will vote in the special election for Inslee's seat, including Lynnwood, Edmonds, Shoreline, Poulsbo and Mukilteo, will be in new congressional districts for 2013.

In a statement, Chase said that the important thing was that Inslee's seat stay in his party.

The approval of a City Center Planned Action Ordinance will be on the agenda of the Lynnwood City Council on Monday night.

The meeting gets underway at 7 p.m. at Lynnwood City Hall.

The planned action ordinance for the City Center area will be voted on following a continuation of the public hearing that began at the April 23 council meeting. The ordinance, which has been discussed and amended since March, would streamline the environmental review process for the City Center area per state SEPA guidelines.

Also on the agenda is the continuing issue of the former Lynnwood High School property and possible settlements with the Edmonds School District concerning outstanding issues on the property.