Jim Kambeitz still remembers when the Portland Fire Bureau visited his grade school to talk about fire prevention. “That had a big impact on me,” Kambeitz, 50, said at Longview’s fire station on Commerce Avenue Thursday. “I remember that when I think about the prevention work we do here: the public relations work that really has a big impact on people and a lot on our students.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2019 2:24:04 PM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News

Firefighters managed to save a man's pet cat from their burning home in Carnation Thursday afternoon. The homeowner was napping just before 2 p.m. when he awakened by his dog barking and noticed a heavy smoke building in his home just off SR-203 near Stillwater Hill. He managed to get out and call for help.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2019 7:46:20 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS 29 Yakima

The Ephrata Fire Department has three new lieutenants. EFD veterans Maxwell Yoder, Colleen Winski and Chandler Gribble all received lieutenants badges during a short pinning ceremony at Wednesday night’s regular meeting of the Ephrata City Council. “Each shift will now have a captain and a lieutenant,” said EFD Chief Jeremy Burns.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2019 5:47:42 AM - SOURCE: Columbia Basin Herald

Making history, Samantha Wright has been named as the Moses Lake Fire Department’s first-ever full-time female firefighter paramedic, according to a press release. Wright will fill one of three new positions with the department that were authorized by the Moses Lake City Council for the 2019 budget year.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2019 5:47:41 AM - SOURCE: Columbia Basin Herald

Sioux Falls, SD—Rosenbauer debuted its CleanLocker at its annual dealer meeting in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The sealed motorized CleanLocker stores three complete sets of clean turnout gear, including SCBAs, on the officer’s side, outside behind the chassis cab.

Cancer is the leading cause of firefighter deaths due to gaseous exposures such as volatile organic compounds, which become embedded into the turnout gear. Soiled gear will be stored in a separate compartment towards the rear of the apparatus in plastic bags.

“We’re seeing departments rapidly taking action in terms of removing all turnout gear from inside the cab,” said Scott Oyen, CEO of Rosenbauer South Dakota. “The importance of seconds matter in responding to fires; that hasn’t changed, and it is not going to; therefore, we need help them access their turnout gear as quickly as possible outside of the cab.”

The CleanLocker will be installed on a demo unit on-display in April 2019 at the Fire Department Instructor’s Conference (FDIC) International in the Indiana Convention Center, Exhibit Hall J at booth 5200.

For more information, visit www.rosenbaueramerica.com.