Aug 4, 2021
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Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, in partnership with Portland Fire & Rescue, hosted one of two Portland Metro Fire Camps at their training center in Sherwood, Friday July 30 through Sunday, August 1. Thirty-five young women between the ages of 16 and 21 attended the camp, which was led by professional fire fighters from multiple agencies across the west coast. Camp attendees came from as far away as Seattle and Tacoma, Washington and Detroit, Michigan.
The camp’s mission is to recruit women to consider a rewarding fire service career. It is designed to instill confidence and build teamwork skills through hands-on firefighter training. The camp itinerary consisted of various stations and scenarios each day such as taking hydrants, hose practices, controlling nozzles, standpipe evolutions, rope operations, ladders, search and rescue, vehicle extrication, forcible entry, emergency medical skills, nutrition, physical fitness, and interview techniques.
First Responders recognized with appreciation dinner
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Portland Metro Fire Camp encourages future female firefighters
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Fresina reelected president of state firefighters union
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Sam Fresina, president-elect of the New York State Professional Fire Fighters Association, speaks at the Troy Central Fire House on Monday, Aug. 8, 2016 in Troy, N.Y. (Eliza Mineaux/Special to the Times Union)Eliza Mineaux
ALBANY Former Albany firefighter Sam Fresina was reelected for a third term president of the 18,000-member New York State Professional Fire Fighters Association earlier this month.
Fresina, who also heads the Albany County Airport Authority, was first elected in 2016 as the president of the statewide union.
Fresina has worked in firefighting since 1985, and began working for the Albany Fire Department in 1990. Four years later, he was named a trustee on the union s executive board, and in 1997 he was elected president of the local union chapter. He retired from the job in 2010. He began serving as secretary and treasurer for the state union that same year.
Man arrested in October fire truck theft in Colonie; Truck later recovered abandoned in Schenectady
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