"Seattle Fire Department" by Jeff Maurone The eerie red glow of the number 5 pales in comparison to Futura's understated, yet sinister, omni-presence. (Take that, F'Helvetica and Luke Skywalker!) Expose this typeface's tight grip on Seattle's civic institutions in the Seattlest Flickr pool.......

We bring you the news as it happens or a little bit later. This was about 3:50pm today: REDACTED says: Holy shit, the building across the street is on fire. REDACTED says: flames and everything. MvB says: no kidding? REDACTEDsays: the Olive 8 MvB says: what's an Olive 8 REDACTED says: It's under construction but you can see the flames and smoke. MvB says: what street is that? REDACTED says: Olive 8 is the name......

Last night a record 450 teams packed into the Old Pequliar for Seattlest Trivia. Sadly we had to disqualify 432 of the squads when they would not participate in the mandatory drug testing. The remaining 18 team answered questions on tragic romances, the World Series, John C. Reilly movies, and Project Runway. Funny story, Trivia Master David didn't know how many seasons of Project Runway there were, and was shouted down when he announced......

Earlier this weeek we mentioned a cool map mashup that our sister site Gothamist has. They have feeds for both the police and fire departments in New York City and it makes for a really cool and really useful little application, and it's something that we'd love to have on our site here. However, we've never had a police feed in Seattle and now we don't have access to the fire department's data either. The......

Hikers getting lost in the woods is an unfortunately frequent occurence here in the Pacific Northwest. Cell phones and hand-held GPS certainly help a lot of people out of jams, but Seattlest suspects that the increasing numbers of local hikers mean that there are more folks lost in the woods now than ever. One would think it would be difficult to get trapped in Discovery Park, though. Apparently, a man who was attempting to get......

Next time your bathtub BBQ goes awry the Seattle Fire Department is going to turn up at your door in spiffy new unis. Traditional black is back in vogue, replacing the tan uniforms worn by Seattle firefighters in recent years. The outfits will go above and beyond mere fashion, of course, and sport a number of technological improvements, including water-wicking inner liners and more water-resistant exteriors. The jackets are also made with a strap on......