PHOTOS: Flames engulfed a home in Northeast Portland on Thursday night, sending one person to the hospital.
Fire crews were called to the two-alarm fire on Northeast 136th just south of Glisan just before 8 p.m.
Portland Fire & Rescue said the fire extended from the basement up to the second floor, where fire poured out of the roof of the home and black smoke billowed into the sky.
The fire even set off ammunition stored in the home, forcing firefighters to back off.
"It was reported to have a thousand pounds of ammunition stored in the garage, so with the significant amount of fire and the reality that there are the explosives on the inside, we pulled our crews out, established a perimeter," said PF&R spokesperson Rick Graves.
One person was taken to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation.
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Fourteen-year-old girls who sign up for firefighter training this summer through the Lebanon Fire District can thank Londyn Randall for the opportunity.
It was 2018 and Randall was just 14 when she told her mother she’d like to try Lebanon’s new Linn County Young Women’s Fire Academy.
Then in its first year, the academy was geared for ages 16 to 19. But Randall’s mother called Lt. Erin Nunes, who was organizing the academy, to see what might be done.
“I remember asking her mom, is she very mature? Do you think she can do this camp?” Nunes said. “And she said, ‘Absolutely.’” So Nunes agreed and Randall signed up. She did so well that Nunes decided the minimum age for all subsequent camps would be lowered to 14.
“I realized, this is the age group we should be including,” Nunes said.
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The Vale Fire & Ambulance Department recorded a surge in medical calls in 2023 attributed to the older population and an upswing in overdoses from fentanyl use.
Fire Chief Jess Tolman said the number of responses to fires remained steady but a “little bit of everything” put the ambulances on the road more often in 2023.
“Vale is an older community. A lot of people are on Medicaid and use the ambulance more as a taxi type of service,” he said.
In 2022, the department responded to 604 medical calls. In 2023, the ambulance rolled 666 times, he said.
While Tolman did not have statistics specifically regarding overdose calls, he said they were “significant.”
“In the last few years, I’ve used Narcan more than I have in the past 20 years as an EMT,” he said.
Tolman said his medics are “probably seeing one or two overdoses every month.”
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