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Saturday, May 17 Hose Testing - 7am Station 1
Sunday, May 18 No more burning w/in city limits
Tuesday, May 20 Mock Crash - Orofino High School
Saturday, May 31 Extrication Training - Weippe
Saturday, June 7 RIT Training

RIT teams practice pulling downed firefighters from a first floor window at the RIT tower, located in the lot behind the C-PTPA buildingMarch 2008 - 3rd Annual Clearwater Fire Academy

Nearly 250 firefighters from rural districts around the state were in Orofino from March 14 - 17, 2008, to participate in the 3rd Annual Clearwater Fire Academy. Classes such as Grant Writing, Rapid Intervention Team (RIT), MayDay, Apparatus, Fire Behavior, SCBAs, etc., were held over 20 hours at Orofino High School and locations around Orofino.

Pictured: RIT teams practice pulling downed firefighters from a first floor window at the RIT tower located in the lot behind the C-PTPA building.

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Firefighters working at south end of building; wind blowing smoke and flame.February 2008 - Ahsahka Log Home

On the evening of Tuesday, February 12, the log home behind the Post Office on North Fork Drive in Ahsahka was destroyed by fire, and a neighboring house was badly damaged. Thankfully, no one was injured. Firefighters from four departments (Orofino, Sunnyside, Upper Fords Creek, and Twin Ridge) responded to fight the blaze.

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Flames in the house attic breech the peek of the roofJanuary 2008 - 111th Street

This two-alarm call came in just before 6 am... smoke visible coming from under the eves of a home. A rescue was performed to pull an 83 year old woman from the home alive. Unfortuntely, she passed away nine days later. See more photos

Flames from house attac whip through west attic window2007 - Another Busy Year

Late fall of 2007 was another busy time, with departments resonding to home fires on Grangemont Road and Brown Street, and an oil fire at Deano's on Highway 12. Pictured here is the home on Brown Street, which was very difficult to fight due to clutter in the home and the complete destruction of the staircase between the ground floor and the second floor. This fire resulted in death of one of the home's occupants - the first fatality in living memory for the Orofino Fire Depatment.

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Side doors removed from van using Jaws of LifeJaws of Life

Orofino Fire's Rescue 3 responds to vehicle accidents on local roads and the Highway 12 corridor. When victims of a crash cannot get out or be safely removed from a vehicle, the Jaws of Life are used to carefully cut through the vehicle body to make extrication possible.


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2008 Clearwater Fire Academy

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2007 Clearwater Fire Academy

"200 men and women from all over Idaho strapped on heavy fire-retardant suits and oxygen tanks and practiced life-saving measures in Orofino Saturday [March 17,2007]. They were all students at the 2nd Annual Volunteer Firefighter Academy."

View article & video on KLEWTV




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Vocal Smoke Alarm

"Children do not reliably wake up to traditional smoke alarms but do consistently wake up to a familiar voice, studies say. Now there is a new option when it comes to fire safety; a smoke detector that wakes children up with a message recorded by their parents."

View article @ firehouse.com
View video from Boston's Channel 7 News


 

 

 
   

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