TVF&R Blog

TVF&R Fire Chief Mike Duyck

This afternoon Deputy Chief Mike Duyck became Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue’s new Fire Chief at a formal ceremony in Tualatin. The ceremony included an Oath of Office administered by TVF&R Board President Bob Wyffels and an official ‘transfer of command’ in which retiring Fire Chief Jeff Johnson presented Duyck with [...]

Engine 58 and Heavy Brush 58 parked outside their new station

It was a historic day in the Bolton neighborhood as firefighters from Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue moved in to TVF&R’s new Station 58 in West Linn.  Firefighters have been responding to emergencies in the Bolton neighborhood for more than 100 years, [...]

On Friday, August 27 TVF&R firefighters from King City participated with the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Oregon to grant 4-year-old Cooper Albright’s wish of being a construction worker for a day.  Cooper and his family live in Tigard and met Lt. Nokes and his crew  while grocery shopping.  Cooper has inoperable Neuroblastoma which is a form of brain cancer; the [...]

Fire roars through the roof of the three story building. Photo courtesy TVF&R Division Chief Tom Clemo

More than 80 Firefighters from Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue, Lake Oswego and Portland battled a three alarm fire at a condominium complex in Tigard Tuesday evening. Three residents suffered smoke inhalation and more than a [...]

Last Saturday was a busy day at TVF&R’s Station 67 in Beaverton, as some special kids from the Children’s Cancer Association stopped by to visit with their new friends.  Two TVF&R firefighters, Robert Petracca and Zach Wiens, are mentors in the association’s Chemo Pals Program. 

According to the Children’s [...]

Firefighters work to get to the seat of the fire. Photo courtesy Bill Carlile.

Flames burn through the home's roof.

TVF&R firefighters stopped a fast moving roof fire from destroying a home in West Linn tonight.  Neighbors called 9-1-1 just after 7:30 p.m. Friday night after seeing smoke and flames coming from the roof [...]

Off-duty TVF&R firefighters are well on their way to their goal after raising  more than $23,000 for the MDA last weekend.  This Friday and Saturday, firefighters will be at it again hoping to make their goal of raising $40,000.

There are over 100 families in TVF&R’s service area receiving support from the MDA. [...]

The fire caused heavy damage to the garage (below, right) and the rooms above it.

A family from Beaverton is staying with relatives tonight after a fire ripped through more than half of their home this afternoon.  The fire caused significant damage to the home’s garage and two rooms directly above. 

A neighbor called 9-1-1 at [...]

Quinnell Flanagan is just 11 years old, but the Sherwood Resident is holding down a busy schedule this summer as Oregon State’s Muscular Dystrophy Association Ambassador. Today Quinnell, who has muscular dystrophy, stopped by her home town fire station in Sherwood to thank firefighters for their work raising money for MDA.

For the next [...]

Firefighter Adrian Jewett expertly aims Boat 59 downstream and pushes the throttles forward.  The twin 175 horsepower sport jet engines roar to life and in seconds the boat is on plane and hurtling down the river toward Willamette Falls.  Captain John Voeller sits beside him.  Voeller, Jewett, and the other two firefighters aboard [...]