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In 1883 the Portland Fire Department, while still augmented by volunteers, became known as the Portland Paid Fire Department. In January of this year, the department submitted it first budget totaling $55,340 for the entire year, with $25,940 being for the annual salary for the department's 52 employees, which included a chief engineer, two ...
Portland Fire Station No. 17, at 824 N.W. Twenty-fourth Ave. in Portland, Oregon, was built in 1912.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1]It originally held a horse-drawn steam pumper and a horse-drawn ladder truck, requiring three and two horses respectively.
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 Portland Fire Bureau of the city of Portland, Oregon owns and operates Fireboats in Portland, Oregon. In 1973 the Fire Bureau had the responsibility for patrolling the harbor transferred to it from the Police Bureau. [1] The Karl Prehn and the L.V. Jenkins were added to the fleet at that time. These smaller vessels were equipped for both ...
Portland Fire Station No. 7, located in southeast Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon, is a two-story structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1927, it was added to the register in 1989. [ 2 ]
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David Campbell, George Williams, on the Willamette River.. The David Campbell was a fireboat built in 1912 for Oregon's Portland Fire and Rescue. [1] She was a steam-powered vessel, built in a Michigan shipyard, disassembled, shipped in pieces, and reassembled in Portland.
David Campbell in 2006.. The David Campbell was a long-serving fireboat built in 1928 for Oregon's Portland Fire & Rescue. [1] She underwent an extensive rebuild, in 1976. In 2010 Portland acquired a new smaller, faster fireboat, the Eldon Trinity, named after the two children who were thrown off the Sellwood Bridge in 2009, when it took the David Campbell 44 minutes to get to scene to provide ...