A car fire spread to and damaged a Beaverton apartment building on Sunday afternoon, according to Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue. Just after 3:30 p.m., firefighters responded to multiple calls about a vehicle fire in a carport at the 11000 block of Southwest Allen Boulevard.
When firefighters arrived, they found the fire had spread to the carport, two additional vehicles and onto the side of the nearby apartment building. A second alarm was called and additional firefighters and resources were sent to the scene. All occupants were evacuated without injury. Once firefighters extinguished the blaze, they determined that four living units had been damaged.
The Red Cross responded to help nine displaced residents find emergency housing.
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Two rural fire departments on the North Coast have been awarded grants through the Federal Emergency Management Agency to replace old equipment.
The Elsie-Vinemaple fire department will receive a $619,047 grant to purchase a new pumper tender. “This will replace a 1977 tender and a 1988 engine,” Cannon Beach Fire Chief Marc Reckmann, who helped write and manage the grants, said in an email.
Mike Wammack, fire chief of Elsie-Vinemaple, said the new apparatus will help his fellow departments through their mutual aid agreements. "This truck's not only helping us out, it's going to help Hamlet, it's available to Seaside, Cannon Beach — anything within our county," he said.
Reckmann said, "These grants are especially important to districts like Elsie that have an annual budget of about $75,000."
Hamlet Volunteer Fire Department will receive $99,619.
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A fire ignited by improperly stored rags destroyed a garage and lightly damaged a house in Bend on Sunday, according to the Bend Fire & Rescue.
Just after 3 a.m., firefighters responded to reports of a structure fire on Deschutes Market Road.
A log-built garage, attached to the log house by a covered walkway, was completely engulfed in flames when they arrived. Inside the home, the two occupants were still asleep, as the smoke alarms hadn’t yet been triggered by the external fire.
Firefighters evacuated the residents and were able to protect the house from more than some external charring and water damage, but the garage was a total loss. Inside the garage were two vehicles and several custom bicycles.
Investigators determined that the fire began in a plastic trash can inside the garage.
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Rum Creek Fire's incident command says an unexpected rescue happened at the Incident Command Post (ICP) this week. It says as fire suppression operations slow, its remaining crews are vigilant about their duty, such as Operations Section Chief Jesse Blair.
It says yesterday while Blair was leaving the ICP, he noticed a white bird in a tree, and as he drove closer he noticed it seemed to have trouble flying, becoming grounded.
Incident Command (IC) says when Blair got out of his vehicle the white bird ran away rather than trying to fly, and when close enough to clearly see the bird, Blair identified it as an albino Red Tailed Hawk that was wet and unable to fly.
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Forest Shuman came into the world at 8 pounds, 7 ounces, but not in a hospital as his mom Tristan and dad Dustin had hoped.
“It was only 30 minutes to the hospital, but it took him 10,” Tristan Shuman said.
He decided to arrive in their car. “Kinda rushed and got through the curves then I felt this immense pressure and told him I was like ‘I think he’s here, pretty sure he’s coming,’” she said. “He reached over and was like ‘Yep he’s here.’ I caught him, threw him up on my chest and he only made the littlest cry.”
They weren’t far from Clackamas County’s Redland Fire Station.
“I drive by here all the time, and there’s normally a cop here so I was hoping he’d see me, or these guys would be here and luckily we whipped in here and they were all here to help,” Dustin Shuman said.
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At least 40 people have reported injuries or illnesses related to Oregon’s Cedar Creek fire, officials say. The fire has burned for almost two months.
All of the injuries so far appear to be non life-threatening, Don Ferguson, a Cedar Creek Fire public information officer, told CNN in an email. The blaze, sparked by lightning on August 1, has burned through 114,104 acres and is 20% contained.
“There have been no structures burned and no fatalities,” Ferguson said. The fire “has grown by only a relatively small percentage” in the last week, according to Ferguson. “The fire received a little rain, enough to temporarily slow growth and allow work to progress on the indirect containment strategy.”
Officials are beginning to pull back resources on the firefighting process and reopen areas closed to the public, according to Ferguson.
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