Firefighters from Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue and Lake Oswego Fire responded to a house fire at 8685 SW Commanche in Tualatin at 2:15 PM today. First-arriving crews reported heavy fire and smoke coming from the garage and initiated an aggressive interior fire attack. They immediately encountered deep piles of household rubbish in the garage [...]
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Investigator Jeremy Foster has determined the most probable cause of a fire which started just after midnight on the campus of Tigard High School. Based on the examination of physical evidence combined with interviews of school district staff and first-arriving firefighters, it is believed that oil-soaked rags are to blame for the small fire.
An alert driver [...] Just after 10 p.m. last night, firefighters from Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue and Hillsboro Fire Department responded to reports of a fire and sounds of explosions at Aloha Garbage Company in the 20000 block of SW Blanton Street.
Within four minutes of being dispatched, firefighters arrived. After some initial challenges to gain entry into the secured [...] Dave Kolander thought it was odd how a delivery truck pulled over in front of his home just prior to 1:30 PM today. When he stepped out to see what the driver was up to, he noticed smoke coming from his neighbor’s house. That wasn’t unusual as the occupant, an elderly gentleman, often used his [...] Fire sprinklers kept a fire in the attic of a large assisted care facility in-check on July 4th, allowing firefighters from Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue to extinguish the fire and care for more than 80 residents who had to be evacuated from the building. “Given what we know about attic fires, there is little doubt [...] Firefighters from Sherwood's Station 33 work to prevent a restart A three acre hay field, scheduled to be baled tomorrow, burned this afternoon in the summer’s first significant grass fire for Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue. The fire occurred at 2133 SW Lebeau Road, a rural area south of Sherwood. Temperatures in the [...]
Firefighters from Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue extinguished a difficult to reach fire in the roof of a large assisted care facility in unincorporated Washington County tonight while ensuring the more than eighty residents of the facility were well cared for. An employee at the Park Place Assisted Living Community, located at [...]
Firefighters from Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue responded to a report that a vehicle had crashed into a Dollar Tree store this morning in Washington County. When firefighters from TVF&R arrived at 17475 SW Farmington Road they found a Mitsubishi Montero half-way through a window at the front of the store. Firefighters quickly [...] Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue is releasing this dashboard camera video recorded by a Battalion Chief’s camera as he took command of a fire scene in Beaverton. The fire took place early in the morning of June 18th. Firefighters were called to a fire at 15795 SW Misty Court in Beaverton where they found heavy fire coming [...] Firefighters assess an unidentified patient at ACS in Tualatin. Evacuated employees can be seen in the background. TVF&R responded to a mass casualty incident in Tualatin this morning. At 8:22 a.m., employees at ACS, located at 18277 SW Boone’s Ferry in Tualatin, called 911 complaining of nausea and light-headedness. The building was quickly evacuated. Firefighters arrived [...] |
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