THE DAY WHATCOM CREEK BURNED

THE OLYMPIC PIPELINE DISASTER AND THE FIGHT FOR ACCOUNTAHBILITY

Liam Wood, 18. (Courtesy of the Pipeline Safety Trust)

Stephen Tsivoras, 10. (Courtesy of the Pipeline Safety Trust)

Wade King, 10. (Courtesy of the Pipeline Safety Trust)

Marlene Robinson and Bruce Brabec at their home, less than a year after Liam’s death. (Photograph courtesy of Christopher Goodenow/The Plane

Frank King with photos of Wade. (Photograph courtesy of Christopher Goodenow/The Planet Magazine)

Katherine Dalen and Skip Williams on the deck of their home, which borders Whatcom Falls Park. (Photograph courtesy of Christopher Goodenow/

A note Liam left for his parents before he graduated from high school. (Photograph courtesy of Christopher Goodenow/The Planet Magazine)

The Wade King Student Recreation Center at Western Washington University in Bellingham. (Photograph by Ron Holcomb)

Whatcom Creek deep inside Whatcom Falls Park. (Photograph by Ron Holcomb)

The statue of Wade inside the Wade King Student Recreation Center at Western Washington University. (Photograph by Ron Holcomb)

The Lummi totem pole in Whatcom Falls Park commemorates the loss of the three boys. (Photograph by Ron Holcomb)

Whatcom Falls Park’s namesake waterfall. (Photograph by Ron Holcomb)

Mary King (right) at the 25th-anniversary ceremony at Whatcom Falls Park, alongside Pipeline Safety Trust executive director Bill Caram. (Ph

Champion of Change award winner Carl Weimer (left) with U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx at the White House in 2015.

The ruptured section of pipe. (Office of Pipeline Safety)

Props used by Pipeline Safety Trust executive director Carl Weimer, acknowledging the challenges he and PST faced in their fight against the

CONSTANT CHAOS

Aerial view of the crane operation removing the roof that collapsed over the burned and sunken vessels after the 2005 Harborview Marina fire

Ecology Spill Responder Shawn Zaniewski (right) listens to a situation briefing on Interstate 5 during the tragic 2017 Amtrak 501 derailment

Ecology Spill Responders Andrea Unger (left) and Ron Holcomb prepare to enter a residence in 2017 where a suspected chemical suicide had occ

The derelict 431-foot Davy Crockett on the Columbia River in late January 2011. (Photo used with permission from the Washington State Depart

A Pettit Oil truck on US 101 near the Hoh River spilled 4,300 gallons of red-dyed diesel fuel in 2011. (Photo used with permission from the

A fast-moving fire at the Harborview Marina in Gig Harbor destroyed 50 boats in 2005. (City of Gig Harbor photo, used with permission from t

In January 2008, a heavy-lift helicopter towed a line from the grounded fishing vessel Anna Marie to an offshore tugboat. The vessel was suc

Ecology Spill Responder Andrea Unger is tipping a modified anhydrous ammonia tank that was depressurized after being shot by a Pierce County

A rusted Japanese gas cylinder that washed up on the beach two years after the tragic and devastating 2011 tsunami. (Photo by Ron Holcomb, u

Derailed tank cars carrying sodium hydroxide on the Puget Sound shoreline in 2011. (Photo by Ron Holcomb, used with permission from the Wash

A rusted Japanese gas cylinder that washed up on the beach two years after the tragic and devastating 2011 tsunami. (Photo by Ron Holcomb, u

Typical scene at a methamphetamine lab in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Every container's contents had to be field-tested for proper p

Aerial photo of the Union Pacific Bakken oil unit train that derailed and caught fire in Mosier, Oregon, in 2016. (Photo by Ron Holcomb, use

The 128-foot derelict vessel Deep Sea, which sank after a mysterious fire in 2012, is being lifted from the bottom of Penn Cove. (Photo by R

Ecology Spill Responders John Hanson and Ron Holcomb (right) sampling a drum in January 2008 that had been washed away during the 2007 Cheha

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