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Fire officials confirmed fatality at single-story Portland home fire Sunday morning, with cause investigation underway.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — On a hot and sunny day, we met up with Rick Graves, Portland Fire & Rescue’s public information officer, and took off for a ride-along on the Fourth of July. Amid a ...
PORTLAND, Ore. – As Multnomah County and American Medical Response continue their deliberations over how to adapt to an ongoing shortage of paramedics in the area, Portland’s interim fire ...
But in a number of Portland metro counties where American Medical Response is the ambulance provider, there's a growing reliance on fire crews and an expectation that they'll do whatever is needed ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Fire and Rescue Captain Dennis Bell said he responded to Southeast 94th and Foster around 2:30 Sunday morning. "It was a cardiac call. At that point, AMR was level zero ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — The crew on Portland Fire & Rescue's Engine 9 pulled up at Providence Portland Medical Center on Wednesday to meet a man whose life they saved nine days ago.
Records show about 15 minutes after Portland Fire paramedics arrived, an American Medical Response (AMR) ambulance finally got to the scene at 12:26 p.m. to take Saunders to the hospital where he ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Some relief is coming to the high number of emergency calls for Portland Fire and Rescue, officials say, thanks to the launch of their overdose response team weeks into ...
Portland Fire is sent to about 26,000 low-risk medical calls a year, ... free up American Medical Response ambulances to be available for cardiac arrests and other medical emergency calls, ...