Ed Plumlee has been part of the Federal Way community for over two decades, spending much of that time serving the community in some form or another.

Plumlee, a longtime King County Medic One employee, a former South King Fire assistant chief and an involved Kiwanis member, was born in Seattle on March 14, 1955. Plumlee said that on his mom’s side of the family, there’s deep roots in Washington, citing that at Boeing Field in Seattle, there’s a plaque for a man named Jacob Maple, an ancestor of his who was one of the first settlers in Seattle.

Plumlee said that they eventually moved to Burien, where he grew up most of his life. His dad’s family was from Idaho, with Plumlee’s grandfather working as a miner until he died of black lung disease. When his grandfather died, his grandmother, al

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