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Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue (TVFR) is a special-purpose government fire fighting and emergency services district in the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon. Established in 1989 with a merger between Washington County Fire District 1 and the Tualatin Rural Fire Protection District, it primarily provides fire and emergency medical services in eastern Washington County, but also provides services in neighboring Multnomah and Clackamas counties. It serves unincorporated areas along with the cities of Beaverton, Tigard, Tualatin, West Linn, Wilsonville, and Sherwood, among others. With over 300 firefighters and 21 fire stations, the district is the second largest fire department in the state and has an annual budget of nearly $160 million. ==History== Beaverton incorporated in 1893, and by 1914 had a volunteer fire department. To the south, Tualatin incorporated in 1913 and on February 2, 1935, formed the Tualatin Fire Department.〔 Residents of unincorporated West Slope contracted with Beaverton’s fire department to have the latter provide service starting in 1941, but created their own West Slope Rural Fire Protection District in 1949.〔 In 1946, the Tualatin department became the Tualatin Rural Fire Protection District and opened a new station on Boones Ferry Road,〔 and in 1948 the Stafford-Wilsonville Fire Department merged into the new rural district. Also in 1946, the Cedar Mill Rural Fire Protection District was created, followed by the Beaverton Rural Fire Protection District in 1947 that covered the Aloha area.〔 The Beaverton Rural district contracted with Beaverton for services, with the original station on 185th at Blanton across from the post office.〔 A second station was opened in 1965 in the Progress area, with a third opening adjacent to Tektronix on Jenkins Road in 1967.〔 Sherwood merged their fire department with Tualatin Rural in 1968. Municipal fire departments in Tigard and King City, and Sherwood later joined the Tualatin Rural Fire Protection District.〔 In 1972, Washington County Fire District 1 was created with the merger of the Beaverton Rural, Cedar Mill Rural, and the West Slope Rural fire districts.〔 Washington County Fire District 1 and the Tualatin Rural Fire Protection District began discussing a merger in 1985, and in November 1988 the two districts signed off on the plan with a preliminary name of as Consolidated Fire and Rescue District. The name Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue was adopted by the new entity in January 1989, and the district was officially created in February 1989. The new district covered with 176,040 residents and had 17 fire stations.〔〔 WCFD1 covered with about 122,040 people in eastern and northern Washington County including Beaverton, Metzger, Garden Home, Aloha, Reedville, Bonnie Slope, Oak Hills, West Slope, Raleigh Hills, Rockcreek, and part of Tigard.〔 Tualatin Rural covered with about 54,000 people in southern Washington County and western Clackamas County including Tualatin, Wilsonville, King City, Sherwood, Durham, Rivergrove, as the rest of Tigard.〔 WCFD1 had eight fire stations with 126 firefighters, while Tualatin Rural had seven fire stations with 100 firefighters.〔 Prior to the merger, Washington County Fire District 1 signed an agreement with Hillsboro in 1987 in which TVFR would not oppose annexations by the city that would remove properties from the district. The agreement also could have led to a merger with the Hillsboro Fire Department.〔 The next year the district and Hillsboro agreed to have WCFD1 continue providing service in the recently annexed Tanasbourne neighborhood for five years. In April 1989, the new district opened a training facility. Washington County Fire District 2 (WCFD2) started negotiations in October 1989 with TVFR for a partial merger, though the merger never occurred.〔 At that time TVFR maintained WCFD2’s equipment, along with Hillsboro’s equipment.〔 Multnomah County Fire Districts 4 and 20, plus the Valley View Water District, merged into TVFR in 1995.〔 Beaverton voters finally approved an official merger into the district in 1996.〔 West Linn contracted TVFR for fire services in 1998, and then joined the district in 2004.〔 Oregon City contracted with TVFR from 1999 to 2003.〔 In 1999, TVFR was awarded the International Association of Fire Chiefs' Fire Service Award for Excellence for the district’s Community Assistance Program.〔 The district achieved national accreditation in August 2000 by the Commission on Fire Accreditation International.〔 Rosemont Fire District in West Linn became part of the district in 2001.〔 In 2006, its Apartment Program led to the International Association of Fire Chiefs' awarding the Fire Service Award for Excellence to TVFR.〔 TVFR added its first mini-station in October 2015 in Raleigh Hills, the district's 23 station. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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