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	<title>Big Medicine &#187; Oregon</title>
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		<title>Oregon &#124; Portland Fire &amp; Rescue selects Oregon Iron Works to build two new fireboats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland &#124; 4 Feb 2012 On February 1, 2012, the City of Portland announced that Oregon Iron Works, Inc., headquartered in Clackamas, Oregon, had won a competitive contract to built two new fireboats for Portland Fire &#38; Rescue. Funds for the $5 million dollar project will come from the $72 million General Obligation Bond passed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon &#124; Portland firefighters perform perilous night water rescue in Willamette River</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland &#124; 26 Jan 2012 At 11:15 pm, Dan Sinclair was riding his bicycle along the Eastbank Esplanade headed southbound when he heard a voice calling for help from the river below. Upon scanning the water, he spotted someone splashing in the Willamette River about 25 yards off shore. Sinclair immediately rode his bike the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon &#124; Accidental grease fire leads to two injuries &#8211; Firefighters encourage citizens to be prepared</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland &#124; 24 Jan 2012 On January 18, 2012 at just after midnight, Portland firefighters from Station 11 (Lents) were dispatched to a reported fire in SE Portland off 87th Avenue. While en-route to the scene, Engine 19’s Fire Lieutenant Tim and Firefighters Chris, Dion, and Steven were notified by a 9-1-1 dispatcher that an occupant had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon &#124; Portland to launch first citywide test of community notification system on Jan 26</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland &#124; 24 Jan 2012 On January 26th , the anniversary of the region’s last great earthquake, the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM) -  in partnership with Multnomah County- will initiate the first-ever, citywide test of Portland’s community notification system. This relatively new system has been used successfully in real, small-scale emergencies. But it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon &#124; New series of tsunami inundation maps for Oregon coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland &#124; 24 Jan 2012 The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) has released the first of its new, second generation tsunami inundation maps for communities along the Oregon coast. DOGAMI TIM-Coos-05, Tsunami Inundation Maps for Coos Bay &#8211; North Bend, Coos County, Oregon by DOGAMI, 2012, scale 1:12,000. Includes two plates showing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon &#124; Red Cross response continues across the state</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oregon &#124; 24 Jan 2012 The Oregon Red Cross response to the January Winter Storm disaster began on Jan 18. The storm has been accompanied by hurricane force winds in some parts of the coast, heavy rain, snow, ice, power outages, fallen trees, flooding, landslides and two fatalities. The storm has affected ten counties to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon &#124; Firefighters rescue four victims from two cars on flooded SW Fernhill Road in Forest Grove</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2012/01/oregon-firefighters-rescue-four-victims-from-two-cars-on-flooded-sw-fernhill-road-in-forest-grove/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forest Grove &#124; 22 Jan 2012 Around midnight on 22 Jan 2012 firefighters from Forest Grove Fire &#38; Rescue received a call for a motor vehicle accident on SW Fernhill Road near the Fernhill Wetlands. When firefighters arrived they met with Forest Grove Police and Washington County Sheriff&#8217;s Patrol Officers who advised them that there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon &#124; Portland firefighters respond to reports of man pinned beneath vehicle</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2012/01/oregon-portland-firefighters-respond-to-reports-of-man-pinned-beneath-vehicle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland &#124; At 6:39 this morning, Firefighters from two Portland Stations: Station 1 (Old town) and Station 13 (Lloyd District) responded to reports of a man pinned beneath a vehicle at the intersection of NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, and NE Grand. Incidents of this type are dispatched as &#8220;Pin-In&#8221; accidents; these incidents draw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon &#124; Portland Fire &amp; Rescue responds to three structure fires in three hours</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2012/01/oregon-portland-fire-rescue-responds-to-three-structure-fires-in-three-hours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland &#124; Portland Fire crews from across the city responded to three fires in as many hours this morning&#8211;capping off a busy New Years weekend. Already this year crews have been dispatched to more than 250 emergencies, eighteen of those emergencies fire related. At 6:49 a.m., crews from Portland Fire Station 13 (Lloyd District) arrived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon &#124; Portland Fire &amp; Rescue respond to second jump incident from I-205 bridge in past three days</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland &#124; Portland and Fire responded again today to reports of a jumper off of the Interstate 205 Bridge. This is the second jumper from the bridge in the past three days. At 4:13 p.m., dispatchers received a call from a man who witnessed an individual, described as a female in her mid thirties, jump [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon &#124; Catching up with Portland Fire &amp; Rescue &#8211; Jan 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland &#124; At 12:06 am Portland Fire and Rescue responded to a report of a house fire at 1304 S.W. Spring Garden St. When Portland Fire Station 10 (Burlingame) arrived they found fire coming from the back of the house. Firefighters quickly learned that no one was home at the time of fire. The fire was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon &#124; Portland Fire &amp; Rescue battles three overnight house fires in one hour</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2011/12/oregon-portland-fire-rescue-battles-three-overnight-house-fires-in-one-hour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland OR &#124; At 11:13 pm, Portland firefighters were dispatched to 4829 NE Mallory Avenue after a 9-1-1 caller indicated that the house was filling with smoke and the attic ceiling was hot to the touch.  The caller stated that the house on fire was just eight feet from a neighboring home and it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon &#124; Philomath high school students design award-winning video game &#8216;Incendia&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2011/11/oregon-philomath-high-school-students-design-award-winning-video-game-incendia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OR &#124; Playing video games in their free time just isn’t enough for this teen crew: they want to design their own.  Not only that, they want to create the best game they can, and compete against others who are doing the same.   In 2011, about 40 high school and middle school teams, including about [...]]]></description>
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