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Your 2013 guide to public safety in Washington CountyYour 2013 guide to public safety in Washington CountyINSIDE ❘ Citizens Academy wants you - page 6 ❘ Drug turn-in set Oct. 26 - page 8 ❘ Fall fire watchword is preparedness - page 10

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Nancy Townsley

Maureen Zoebelein

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cover photo: Cornelius Fire Department personnel practice a vehicle extrication exercise.

Watchwords for fall: BE PREPARED

It’s no secret that today’s world is scarier than it used to be. We need only to

scan newspaper headlines to know that. Acts of domestic terrorism, officer-

involved shootings and attacks on elementary school students all make us feel

more vulnerable as we live our lives in the middle of the 21st Century. It isn’t

Mayberry anymore.

Yet, our police, fire and emergency workers would tell us we needn’t fear

leaving the relatively safe confines of our homes and venturing out into our com-

munities. The chances remain quite small that anything menacing lurks around

the next corner, because as young diary-keeper and Holocaust victim Anne

Frank once wrote, “I still believe people are basically good at heart.”

The question remains: should we think about how to protect ourselves in case

of a fire, natural disaster or personal attack? The answer, of course, is yes — and

that’s where our fire, police and sheriff’s agencies come in. All across Washington

County, from citizen academies to workshops on escaping a house fire, these

professionals are ready to help.

Read our story about an upcoming academy presented by the Forest Grove

Police Department. Think about how to prepare yourself for an emergency, and

take those steps before we get too far into the fall calendar. Inventory your valu-

ables so that in case they’re stolen, as they’ll be easier for officers to recover.

Attend your local fire department’s open house or safety fair.

Most of all, be aware of your surroundings and the day-to-day habits of your

loved ones. Keeping a sharp eye and ear out may well be your best protection of

all.— Nancy Townsley

he guide to public safety you hold in your hands is designed to help you, our readers, understand what it takes to stay safe and secure in all the places you live, work and play — and to do what you can to keep your

neighbors safe, too.

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he Forest Grove Police Department is beginning to put together an extensive collection of high-end mountain and road bikes. Unfortunately, getting those bikes back to their owners is a lot harder than might be expected.

“On search warrants we often find items of value you we suspect are stolen from outside our jurisdiction,” Capt. Mike Herb said. “But we can’t find the rightful owner if the serial number shows ‘clear’ in our data-base.”

In Oregon that database is called the Law Enforcement Data System (LEDS). FGPD also has access to a national database called the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) that Herb says many law enforcement officials refer to as the “lifeline of law enforcement.” Both data-bases act as clearinghouses for crime data that can be tapped into by criminal justice agencies at any time from any place in the nation.

“Several years back the NCIC database allowed

FGPD to return several firearms to a Texas man who had them stolen more than 20 years prior,” Herb said. “The firearms were listed in the database as stolen with serial numbers for the entire time. Once we confirmed they were the same, he got his guns back.”

Whether it’s bicycles, firearms, televisions or any other item of value, local police are urging residents to take an inventory. That inventory should include a description of each item, a serial number and a photo-graph.

“We just have no way of returning recovered proper-ty if its serial number is never entered into the national database,” Herb said.

An inventory of valuable items isn’t just valuable to

the police. Most insurance companies require their cus-tomers to substantiate claims in as much detail as a pos-sible.

“The easiest way is to write down a list of the items, brands, models and serial numbers,” Herb said. “Scan this into a computer and/or make copies to leave for rela-tives or in a deposit box. You can actually engrave an ‘owner applied number’ like a driver’s license number into items that don’t have serial numbers.

“The Internet makes this even easier. There are sim-ply too many to list. Just find a place to write the infor-mation down.”

To learn more, contact Herb at the Forest Grove police station, 503-992-3260. ■

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Tualatin Rural Fire Protection District battalion chief Joe Greulich floating in a raft near an apart-ment building on Boones Ferry Road in Tualatin after a Jan. 18, 1974 flood.

Former Beaverton fire chief Archie Olson show-ing off a message board with the words, “Don’t make an ‘ash’ of yourself!” emblazoned on the side of a fire truck in 1960.

These are just three of more than 200 photos inside the pages of “Images of America: Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue,” the first book available to the general public that chronicles the merger of three fire districts that compose the modern-day Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue.

Those include the former Washington County Fire District No. 1, Tualatin Rural Fire Protection District (TRFPD) and the Beaverton Fire Department.

Written by Pamplin Media Group editor Ray Pitz of Rock Creek and published by Arcadia Publishing, the book was copyrighted in April 2012.

“I’ve always wanted to do something on the fire districts,” said Pitz, currently the editor of the monthly Sherwood Gazette and a Pamplin employ-ee since 1989. “It took a year to write and piece together.”

The cover of the 126-page tome features mem-bers of TRFPD, circa 1955, standing in front of the department’s first-aid car. The photo is reminiscent of a bygone era — one in which firefighters answered calls in a converted Stutz vehicle and stored their fire-suppression gear in an old chicken shed in downtown Beaverton.

At its core is the story of how TVF&R came to be.“The impetus for coming together began in 1986

when two men, Washington County Fire District no. 1 chief Jack Snook and Tualatin Rural Fire Protection District chief Floyd Pittard, began talk-ing about a possible consolidation between their

two departments,” Pitz wrote. “Eliminating service duplication and reducing operating costs were among the topics of discussion.”

Stories include coverage of the biggest commercial fire ever to occur in Washington County, a Feb. 20, 1990, blaze in which for-mer Beaverton Fire Chief Jack Snook “got knocked out with a piece of plywood,” Pitz said.

Another vignette paints a colorful por-trait of longtime Beaverton firefighter Ernie Metcalfe, who shot hundreds of fire-related photos — a number of which appear in the book — during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s “with his trusty 35mm Minolta,” noted Pitz.

“That was a coup,” said Pitz, who sat with Metcalfe for an interview in 2011. “Ernie had a wealth of information about fire service in the county to tell me about.”

Other archival photos were taken by freelance photographer Harvey Thomas in the early 1970s to mid-1980s.

The book also tells the story of Russ Williamson of Fire District No. 1, the only firefighter known to have died in the line of duty in 1978.

And, it contains an interview with Terry Bowman, the firefighter who was on top of the Beaverton High School auditorium just before it collapsed during a fire on March 19, 1979. When the structure fell, Bowman — who was atop a piece of aerial equipment — was “completely engulfed in flames,” Pitz said, suffer-ing “the worst survivable burns in the fire district’s history.”

After recovering, Pitz added, Bowman went on to work for the district for another decade. The book contains a photo of him next to the melted

helmet he was wearing at the time of the fire.Such stories represented a clarion call for Pitz.“There’s no archive prior to 1989 that I know of,”

he said. “A lot of it is, I just wanted to chronicle the history before it got lost.

“It’s important so that people don’t forget. A lot of this stuff hasn’t been written down, and once these folks are gone, that’s it.”

The cover of Ray Pitz’s book features a 1950s-era photo of fire-fighters from the Tualatin Rural Fire protection District.

firefighter wielding an ax and smashing through the cedar-shingled roof of a rural Washington County home in 1978.

Pitz writes a piece of FIREFIGHTING HISTORY

Editor’s book chronicles the merger of three districts into Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue

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CAREFUL ATTENTIONPitz, who has worked as a reporter for the

Beaverton Valley Times and the West Linn Tidings, noted that Oregon City claims the oldest fire department west of the Mississippi. But in TVF&R, he discovered and detailed the history of what is today the second-largest department in Oregon, covering 216 miles and attending to nine cities and portions of three counties.

Today, his introduction notes, “TVF&R is a full-service department that includes specialty depart-ments, such as a hazardous materials team, a technical rescue team and a water rescue team.”

The author was careful to only include details — whether in story or photographic form — that he personally corroborated.

“If I didn’t have a date or I didn’t have a location, I didn’t have a piece of history,” said Pitz, “and it didn’t go in.”

A 1984 graduate of Colorado State University, Pitz spent a year near Aspen, Colo., working for a small newspaper there. In 1985 he self-published “Basalt Area Old Timers,” a 60-page book contain-ing 10 interviews with

Pitz credits his dad, Walter, for whetting his appetite for local history.

“To my father, for giving me a curiosity about history and how things work,” Pitz wrote on the book’s dedication page. ■

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demonstrate just that by personally explaining patrol procedures, investigations and forensics techniques to the citizens they protect.

“People want more transparency and accountability in government,” Herb said. “We’re giving folks this transparency — we’re removing the mystery behind what is usually captured in a 20-second news sound bite. Nothing is off limits. If we can answer it, we will.”

Herb estimated that since starting the Citizens Academy, 15 of its graduates have gone on to volunteer with FGPD, including the agency’s current event coordinator, Mike Bernhardt. “This isn’t our intent and we certainly don’t push this,” Herb said. “People have simply come forward.”

Herb also shared that attendees have noted a change in their perception of police officers.

“People have shared that they are now comfortable approaching a police officer when they’ve been reluctant to do so in the past,” he said. “We get to meet our citizens in a different setting than we’re used to and they get to meet us.

“It has to be a great feeling to have an officer you already know from the Citizens Academy respond to assist you — and this has happened numerous times.”

The Citizens Academy will be held on Wednesday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. between Feb. 12 and Apr. 16 in the Forest Grove Community Auditorium, 1915 Main St. The academy is free, but limited to 25 seats for residents of Forest Grove.

Applications are due by 5 p.m. Jan. 22 at the Forest Grove Police Department, 2102 Pacific Ave. For more information, contact Capt. Mike Herb at 503-992-3260. ■

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Pills of all kinds can be turned in this month.

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Perhaps even more unsettling, the same survey revealed that more than 70 percent of people abusing prescription drugs got them by raiding the medicine cabinets of their friends and relatives.

“Prescription drug abuse is a problem on the local and national level,” said Forest Grove Police Department Capt. Mike Herb. “According to the Center for Disease

Control and Prevention, in 2010 enough pharmaceuticals were prescribed to medi-cate every American adult around the clock for a month.”

Spurred on by the variety of alarming statistics, the FGPD will again participate in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s next “National Drug Take Back Day” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 26. The program was

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Fire departments welcome the public There are at least three opportunities to get to know your local fire department better this month.

Events at the beginning and end of national Fire Prevention Week — which extends from Saturday, Oct. 5 to Saturday, Oct. 12 — will allow residents of western Washington County to visit two local fire stations, participate in activities and ask questions of professional firefighters.

On Oct. 5, members of the Hillsboro Fire Department will be at the Hillsboro Farmer’s Market from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to visit with citizens about kitchen safety, said Public Information Officer Bruce Montgomery. They’ll bring a fire engine for children, teens and adults to see and sit in and will participate in a “stair climb” fundraising event to benefit the ALS Association, which fights Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Events will be at the Hillsboro Civic Center on East Main Street.On Oct. 12, open houses are scheduled at Forest Grove Fire & Rescue, 1919 Ash St., and Cornelius Fire Department, 1311 N. Barlow St., from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. FGF&R spokesman Dave Nemeyer said both departments’ events will feature fire engine rides and an obstacle course for kids. In Forest Grove, public works crews will be on hand to give community members rides in the Forest Grove Light & Power bucket as well.

“It’s a very informal time where people ask questions and take a tour of the firehouse,” said Nemeyer, who added the Cornelius and Forest Grove departments will be focusing on wellness

and obesity prevention this year.

“More than 70 percent of our calls are medically based, and a lot of that is due to unhealthy

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started in 2010 to offer people a safe and responsible way to dispose of their prescription drugs. Just last year, FGPD took away 311 pounds of unwanted medications — drugs that would otherwise have sat in a medicine cabinet decaying or becoming susceptible to diversion, misuse and abuse.

Those 311 pounds, Herb said, were composed of too many different types of drugs to list. “Really, it was the whole gamut of different prescription and over-the-coun-ter drugs in both liquid and pill form,” he said. “Everything from cough medication and decongestants to antidepressants and narcotics.”

Though FGPD mostly receives prescription medica-tions on Drug Take-Back Day, Herb insisted that, for those four hours on Oct. 26, all controlled substances could be turned in without repercussions.

“I don’t know that we ever had anyone drop off heroin, marijuana, et cetera, but from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 26, no questions will be asked,” Herb said.

Drug Take-Back Days are as much about educating the public and healthcare providers as they are about getting drugs off the streets — and FGPD will have employees on-site to answer questions as well as receive drugs.

“These drugs are often abused,” Herb said, “and when they are simply thrown away they are dangerous to chil-dren, pets and the environment. A lot of potentially harm-ful substances are off the street and out of homes.”

The event will be held at the police station, 2102 Pacific Ave., Forest Grove. For more information, call 503-992-3260. ■

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“Oregon, especially north-west Oregon, is so tame when it comes to natural disasters,” Fire and Life Safety Division Chief David Nemeyer said. “People can become complacent when it comes to getting their families ready for something bad to happen.”

In December 2007 a coastal gale swept through the northwest, bringing heavy rains that caused record-setting flooding. Just 27 miles north of Forest Grove, a series of landslides and the rapid rise of the Nehalem River cut the small town of Vernonia off from the rest of Oregon. Businesses, schools and hundreds of homes were destroyed in a town of just 2,200.

The following winter another storm dumped nearly 20 inches of snow on Forest Grove, effectively closing the city for several days.

“We are not immune and it’s not unheard of for our areas to become affected by something that can shut us down for quite some time,” Nemeyer said. “Our community has tremendous assets when it comes to our public ser-vices and safety, but we are small and won’t be able to be there for everyone if we get stretched thin by a major inci-dent.”

Nemeyer listed a handful of simple actions Forest Grove residents can take ahead of time to better prepare themselves for the worst:

1. Disaster prep starts at home. Make a 72-hour kit of supplies to have on hand so you and your loved ones can survive until help arrives.

2. Become educated. Disasters

don’t just come in the form of winter storms and earthquakes. Common household emergencies are disasters, too. Take a first-aid class. Knowing how to correctly perform cardio-pul-monary resuscitation (CPR) can save a life.

3. Be aware. Stay up to date on emergencies happening in and around Washington County. One way to do so is to sign up for notifications at publi-calerts.com.

4. Know your neighbors. Join a Neighborhood Watch group, or just figure out who needs help if a disaster occurs.

“In an emergency situation, being prepared can be a difference-maker between a hard time and a tragedy,” Nemeyer said, “which is exactly why we urge people to be prepared.”

Other opportunities to become edu-cated are on the horizon.

“We will have information available at our open house on Oct. 12,” said Nemeyer. The November Chamber of Commerce meeting will feature a pre-sentation on safety from fire personnel as well.

And, Nemeyer added, his depart-ment will continually showcase tips on its Facebook page (facebook.com/pages/forest-grove-fire-rescue) and on the electronic reader board outside the fire station on Ash Street.

For more information about being prepared, contact Forest Grove Fire & Rescue at 503-992-3240 or follow the fire department on Facebook or Twitter. ■

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Fire project focuses ON KEEPING

CITIZENS SAFEBeing prepared makes all the difference

in an emergencyBY BRET T TALLMAN

Whether it’s falling trees on Forest Grove’s Main Street (top) or wildfires in area forests (below), citizens can learn to better prepare for emergencies.

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Sheriff’s Deputies provide countywide policing services to all 540,000 residents of Washington County. Deputies are the primary police responders for 27,000 rural and 200,000 urban residents of communities like Aloha, Bethany, Rock Creek, and Oak Hills.

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