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Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue outlines wildfire deployments, EMS programs and levy effects in West Linn update
Summary
Deputy Chief Patrick Fale told the West Linn City Council that 2024 and early 2025 saw record wildfire deployments and that TVF&R is expanding non-transport EMS programs, relying on a May 2024 local option levy and a 2021 bond to fund staff and capital projects.
Deputy Chief Patrick Fale of Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue told the West Linn City Council on June 2 that 2024 was an unprecedented wildfire year for Oregon and that the district is expanding EMS programs and infrastructure to manage rising call volumes.
Fale said TVF&R tracked “record setting 1,900,000 acres burned” in 2024 and that the Oregon State Fire Marshal’s office deployed 88 task forces. He told council members that the district also sent crews to California in 2025, including “14 firefighters down to Southern California, for a block of time and 1 battalion chief to oversee the 370, Oregon firefighters that were deployed.”
The presentation summarized local response data and new programs aimed at reducing avoidable 911 usage. Fale described an incident dashboard for West Linn, noting about 1,800 incidents inside city limits in the tracking dashboard and that TVF&R handles roughly 60,000 incidents per year across its service area.…
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