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Most of these volunteer companies were gone by the 1930s. The City of Portland provided the funds for the department to purchase its first fire boat, the George H. Williams, in 1904. By 1906 firefighters with the Portland Fire Department had begun wearing turnout gear. The same year also saw Chief Engineer Campbell elected President of the ...
Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue (TVF&R) is a special-purpose government fire fighting and emergency services district in the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon.Established in 1989 with a merger between Washington County Fire District 1 and the Tualatin Rural Fire Protection District, it primarily provides fire and emergency medical services in eastern Washington County, but also provides ...
The plaque is embossed with the words, "Chief of the Portland Fire Department 1893-1911 who lost his life in the performance of his duty June 26, 1911. 'Greater love hath no man than this." Bronze plaques commemorating Portland's Fallen Firefighters are inlaid into the floor of the Memorial in front of the fountain.
Prior to serving in Portland city government, Leonard served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly and was a lieutenant with the Portland Fire Bureau. In 1985, Leonard was elected President of the Portland Firefighters Association. He was elected as the Portland Firefighters President four times, serving in that position until 1998.
An SUV slammed into a Portland home on Christmas Eve, igniting a massive blaze at a property that has been the scene of nearly 30 car accidents over the last decades according to neighbors, with ...
The firefighter, a 25-year-old woman, “sustained a serious head injury around 8:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, Jan. 7, according to a post on X from Erik Scott, public information officer for ...
One firefighter recalled men "hanging by their fingertips" from third floor ledges of the building. [3] The fire, which charred the majority of the 100-room hotel's hallways and doors, [ 1 ] was put out, and the majority of the bodies recovered were discovered in the halls, where residents and guests had collapsed while trying to escape.
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