Retired Fire Chief Jeff Johnson and TVF&R Fire Chief Mike Duyck are presented with the CFAI plaque
Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue (TVF&R) was recently re-accredited by the Commission on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI). TVF&R joins the esteemed ranks of only 133 fire agencies worldwide to be accredited (there are 10,800 agencies in North America). Also [...]
Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue invites you to an open house celebration at the Progress Fire Station in Beaverton. The open house will be an opportunity for the community to explore their new building and meet their firefighters.
Event Details:
When: Saturday, October 2nd from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Where: Fire [...]
TVF&R is hosting another Apartment Fire and Life Safety Training in Sherwood on October 12th. Site managers, maintenance personnel, property managers, and owners are all encouraged to attend. This is a great opp0rtunity for people who work around and manage apartments to learn about how to better protect their customers, residents and property.
Last May TVF&R became one of the first departments in the country to add Cars to its reponse fleet. The Car—with one paramedic—is a cost-effective option for responding to non life-threatening medical and public service calls, leaving TVF&R engines/trucks to respond to more serious incidents. In their first four months in service, the Cars have [...]
Firefighters from Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue’s Station 34 and Station 51 recently responded to a rear end motor vehicle crash on Tualatin Sherwood Road. A male patient in one of the vehicles was injured and firefighters had to use hydraulic cutting tools to remove the vehicle’s roof so they could safely remove [...]
Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue would like to congratulate the 14 graduates of Recruit Academy 09-02, who have finished their probationary year at TVF&R. The District recognized them during an official graduation ceremony this week. Please say hi to these newest TVF&R firefighters as they begin their careers serving our community.
Firefighters from TVF&R were called to help during two incidents involving serious injuries in the West Linn area Sunday.
The first incident occured near the intersection of Mountain Road and Stafford Saturday night. A car left Mountain Road, went over an embankment and into a thick bramble of bushes Saturday [...]
A Beaverton resident was watching her television when a 100 year old tree smashed into her home directly above her. As the home’s ceiling collapsed and a wall pushed her out of her living room, the woman assumed she was experiencing an earthquake. She scrambled over what remained of her [...]
Family members, volunteers and four TVF&R firefighters spent Tuesday morning installing the Kyron Horman Wall of Hope at Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue’s Skyline Station 368. The fence, bearing dozens of tributes to Kyron Horman, had been stored inside the fire station for a week after it was removed from Skyline Elementary School.