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House fire in Lebanon Fire District in Lebanon, Oregon.

The Portland Fire & Rescue Department in Oregon has utilized Youtube to spread the word on their hiring process. They use their own firefighters to tell the World about why they are Portland Firefighters. This is a perfect example of using social media to spread the word on recruitment for an upcoming hiring process!

I just read an article about people questioning a 9 minute response time. Apparently, numerous other apparatus were responding to other 911 calls and the house fire response in question got apparatus from a further fire station than the first or second due.