Tualatin Valley Fire & amp; Rescue (TVF & R) is a government-specific fire extinguisher and emergency services district in Portland, the metropolitan area of ​​Oregon. Founded in 1989 with the merger between the Washington County Fire District 1 and Tualatin Rural Fire District , it primarily provides emergency fire and medical services in eastern Washington County but also provides services in the neighboring Multnomah, Clackamas, and Yamhill districts. It serves unrelated areas along with Beaverton, Tigard, Tualatin, West Linn, Wilsonville, and Sherwood towns, among others. With more than 400 firefighters and 25 fire stations, the district is the country's second largest fire brigade and has an annual budget of $ 197 million.
Video Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue
History
Beaverton was incorporated in 1893, and in 1914 had a volunteer firefighter. To the south, Tualatin was founded in 1913 and on 2 February 1935, formed the Tualatin Fire Department. Unregenerated West Slope Residents with Beaverton Fire Services had a service that started in 1941, but created their own West Slope Rural Protection District in 1949.
In 1946, the Tualatin department became the Tualatin Rural Protection District and opened a new station on Boone Ferry Road, and in 1948 the Stafford-Wilsonville Fire Department joined the new rural district. Also in 1946, Cedar Mill Village Fire Protection District was formed, followed by the Beaverton Rural Fire Protection District in 1947 that covered the Aloha area. The Beaverton Rural district is contracted with Beaverton for service, with the original station at 185 in Blanton across from the post office. The second station opened in 1965 in the Progress area, with a third opening adjacent to Tektronix at Jenkins Road in 1967.
Sherwood merged their fire department with Tualatin Rural in 1968. City fire departments in Tigard and King City, and Sherwood later joined the Tualatin Rural Fire Protection District. In 1972, Washington County Fire District 1 was created with the joining of Beaverton Rural, Cedar Mill Rural, and West Slope Rural fire districts.
The Washington County Fire District 1 and Tualatin Rural Fire Protection District began discussing the merger in 1985, and in November 1988 the two districts signed the plan with its initial name as Consolidation Fire and Rescue District. Name Tualatin Valley Fire & amp; The rescue was adopted by a new entity in January 1989, and the district was officially established in February 1989. The new district covers 225 square miles (580 km 2 ) with 176,040 residents and has 17 fire stations. WCFD1 covers 110 square miles (280 km 2 ) with approximately 122,040 people in east and north Washington County including Beaverton, Metzger, Garden Home, Aloha, Reedville, Bonnie Slope, Oak Hills, West Slope, Raleigh Hills , Rockcreek, and parts of the Tigard. Tualatin Rural covers 115 square miles (300 km 2 ) with about 54,000 people south of Washington County and Clackamas County west including Tualatin, Wilsonville, King City, Sherwood, Durham, Rivergrove, as the rest of the Tigard. WCFD1 has eight fire stations with 126 firefighters, while Tualatin Rural has seven fire stations with 100 firefighters.
Prior to the merger, Washington County Fire District 1 signed an agreement with Hillsboro in 1987 in which TVF & amp; R will not oppose annexation by the city which will remove property from the district. The deal could also lead to a merger with Hillsboro Fire Department. The following year, the district and Hillsboro agreed to have WCFD1 continuing to provide services in Tanasbourne's recently annexed neighborhood for five years.
In April 1989, the new district opened a training facility. Washington County Fire District 2 (WCFD2) started negotiations in October 1989 with TVF & amp; R for partial mergers, although the merger never happened. At that time TVF & amp; R maintains WCFD2 equipment, along with Hillsboro's equipment. Multnomah County Fire Districts 4 and 20, plus Valley View Water District, join TVF & amp; R in 1995. Beaverton voters finally approved an official merger to the district in 1996.
West Linn contracts TVF & amp; R for fire service in 1998, and subsequently joined the district in 2004. Oregon City contracted with TVF & amp; R from 1999 to 2003. In 1999, TVF & amp; R was awarded the Head of Fire Service of the International Fire Association. for Community Assistance Program Excellence. The district achieved national accreditation in August 2000 by the International Fire Accreditation Commission. The Rosemont Fire District in West Linn became part of the district in 2001. In 2006, the Apartment Program led to the International Head of Fire Association 'award the Fire Service Award for Excellence to TVF & amp; R.
Maps Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue
Apparatus and station
District-operated apparatus includes 36 engines, 6 trucks, 11 water tenders, plus special equipment such as 5 HAZMAT trucks, 2 rescue vessels, 13 EMS units, 4 technical rescue vehicles, and 3 units of high waterways. In 2016, TVF & amp; R responded to 1,199 fires and 27,693 medical emergencies, among 43,508 total calls for service.
The district operates 25 fire stations throughout the area. These included two in Wilsonville, two in West Linn, respectively in Tualatin and Sherwood, two in Tigard, one in King City, five in Beaverton, one in the Stafford area, one at Cooper Mountain, one in Aloha-Reedville, one each in the Rock Creek and Bethany areas, two in the West Hills, one in the North Plains, and two in Newberg. In October 2015 TVF & amp; R added his first mini-station in Raleigh Hills. In addition to the fire station, the district operates a training center between Tualatin and Wilsonville and three operations centers, where the Tigard also serves as the main command center.
Organization
TVF & amp; R serves about 520,000 people in Washington, Clackamas, Multnomah, and Yamhill County in Portland's Westside, mostly in the Tualatin Valley. This district is the second largest fire extinguisher in Oregon after the Portland Fire Bureau, and is Oregon's largest fire district. The towns in the district are Beaverton, Durham, King City, Newberg, North Plains, Rivergrove, Sherwood, Tigard, Tualatin, and West Linn. It also covers unrelated areas such as Aloha, Cedar Mill, Bethany, Rockcreek, including much of the eastern area of ​​Washington County. Accredited by the International Fire Accreditation Commission (CFAI), TVF & amp; R has five members of the board of directors elected by the district governing population. By 2018, the district has 416 paid firefighters and paramedics, 90 volunteers, 23 preventive and training staff, and 110 administrative and support personnel.
References
External links
- Media related to Tualatin Valley Fire & amp; Rescue on Wikimedia Commons
Source of the article : Wikipedia
0 Comments