Special district · Washington State
Fire District No. 7 — Fire District, Chelan County WA
Fire District No. 7 is a fire district in Chelan county, Washington. It provides fire and emergency medical services.
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About this district
It provides fire and emergency medical services.
| Type | Fire District |
|---|---|
| Number | 7 |
| County | Chelan |
| Voting precincts | 9 |
| Official name | FIRE DISTRICT NO. 7 |
| State district code | FIR040008 |
Source WA Secretary of State district and precinct files · as of 2026-08-07 · district record
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Recent elections
Election records the state publishes for this district. Board members are elected in odd-numbered years.
| Year | Candidate | Votes | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Ron Simmons | 1,512 | Won |
| 2025 | David C. Rinehart | 1,045 | — |
| 2023 | Mark Donnell | 1,381 | Won |
| 2023 | Ben Laughlin | 812 | — |
| 2021 | Russell Jones | 1,580 | Won |
| 2021 | Ben Laughlin | 804 | — |
| 2019 | Karyl Oules | 1,139 | Won |
| 2019 | William E. Bassett | 1,099 | — |
Source WA Secretary of State election results · as of 2026-08-07 · 4 races on record
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Other districts in Chelan County
See every special district in Chelan County — fire, school, water, port, hospital, cemetery and park districts, and which of them share a number.
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Common questions
What is Fire District No. 7?
A fire district in Chelan county, Washington, governed by an elected board of commissioners or directors. It provides fire and emergency medical services.
Who runs Fire District No. 7?
Recent elected officials include Ron Simmons, Mark Donnell, Russell Jones.
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What this page will not compute
Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.
- What it levies, or spends
- Special districts set their own levies and budgets, and those filings are held by each county assessor rather than in any state-wide dataset. Nothing here is a financial figure.
- Who currently sits on the board
- We show election records where a district name matched one, which is 54% of them. A matched election tells you who won that race, not who holds the seat today — boards fill vacancies by appointment between elections, and those appointments are not published centrally.
- Where its boundary runs
- The register gives a precinct count, not a shape. Two districts of the same type in one county can be adjacent or nowhere near each other, and this page cannot tell you which.
Cite this page
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“Fire District No. 7 — Fire District, Chelan County WA,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/district/chelan-fire-7/
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Where this page comes from
Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.
- WA Secretary of State — district and precinct files
- https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/
- WA Secretary of State — election results
- https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/results.aspx