Upcoming Events
| 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 |
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 March
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.
See
more photos |
 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.
See more
photos |
 January
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 |
 2007
- 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.
See more
photos
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 Jaws
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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Newsworthy!
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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Newsworthy!
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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