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At approximately 5:30 pm Friday evening, a vehicle operated by an intoxicated driver lost control and sheared off a natural gas meter at a business in Tigard. The incident occurred at the Casual Car Wash located at 9855 SW Walnut Place off Highway 99. The suspect fled the scene of the crash, however, was quickly apprehended [...] A West Linn house fire last weekend proved deadly Wednesday afternoon when a 47 year-old woman that had been rescued and resuscitated by firefighters on scene, succumbed to her injuries at Legacy Emanuel Burn Center. Fire kills more than 3,000 people each year. The majority of fatal fires include three common ingredients: they occur in a [...] At 4:01 a.m. Sunday morning, firefighters from Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, Clackamas County Fire District #1 and Lake Oswego Fire Department responded to reports of a trapped victim in a house fire at 1693 12th Street in West Linn. Irene C. Anderson had called 9-1-1 from her cell phone to report that she had just [...] John Pilon (left), survivor Ronald Shinn (center) and Dr. Ray Costantini with the AED that saved Shinn's life Ronald Shinn is alive today because of two men who knew what to do when he collapsed in a parking lot last Fall. Thursday, he had a chance to shake the hands of the men who saved his [...] TVF&R fire investigators have concluded that a cigarette ignited a chair inside a Beaverton apartment Wednesday morning, causing a fire that displaced a family. A resident called 9-1-1 just before 6:30 a.m. Wednesday to report a fire in the living room of an apartment at 11965 SW Center Street in Beaverton. When firefighters arrived at [...]
Video (above) courtesy of the American Heart Association Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States and, every day, TVF&R’s firefighters are called upon to help people suffering from a heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest. February is National Heart Month and TVF&R wants to remind you [...]
The Willamette Station (Station 59) is one step closer to completion after crews installed a historic fire bell that has been part of West Linn history for more than 60 years. According to former West Linn fire volunteers, the 700 pound steel alloy bell was used before World War II in the [...] Discarded cigarettes caused a house fire that resulted in $130,000 in damage to a home and its contents in Beaverton this afternoon. Someone called 9-1-1 at 3:50 p.m. reporting smoke and flames near the roof of a home Beaverton. Firefighters from TVF&R’s Station 53 arrived just three minutes after being dispatched to the fire to find [...] |
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