Nate’s family, along with all of us here at TVF&R, thank you for the love and support you have shown us in griveing the loss of Firefighter Nate Turner. A memorial and celebration of life is being held for family and friends.
Monday, August 1st, at 2 pm Western Mennonite School (gymnasium) 9045 Wallace Rd NW, [...]
Late Sunday, Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue officials received word that one of our firefighters, Nate Turner, died as a result of injuries sustained in a climbing accident on Beacon Rock in Washington. Nate, hired by TVF&R in September 2007, was a Firefighter/Paramedic at the downtown Beaverton fire station – one of TVF&R’s busiest units. [...]
Members of the West Linn Garden Club have re-dedicated five “Firefighter” rose bushes at Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue’s newly constructed Bolton fire station in West Linn. The flowers had been planted at the former fire station next door, but this summer landscapers moved the flowers to the new location. TVF&R’s new [...]
The fire quickly spread up 3 floors on the building's exterior.
On July 7th, Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue firefighters responded to a fire just after midnight at the Birchpointe Apartments, at 17700 NW Cornell Road in Beaverton. The fire—intentionally started in an exterior fire extinguisher cabinet—extended three levels in the apartment building’s exit [...]
A Nissan Armada slammed into the Boone’s Junction Pizza and Pub in Wilsonville Tuesday morning. Firefighters from Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue’s Station 52 and Station 56 extricated the female driver from the vehicle and she was transported by Metro West Ambulance to a local hospital. Wilsonville Police are investigating.
A Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue investigator has determined that fireworks were the most probable cause of a 4th of July evening fire that destroyed a home in Beaverton. Early this afternoon, the family hamster emerged from the rubble unharmed.
Overnight between the hours of 8:00 pm and 1:08 am, TVF&R crews responded to 14 fires. In addition to two house fires, firefighters extinguished burning bushes, a deck attached to a home, a vehicle, and several exterior home siding and roof fires. Many of the fires were back-to-back, and even overlapping one another. The most serious fire [...]