Siuslaw Valley Fire and Rescue covers approximately 120 square miles and protects approximately 17,000 people.
Our agency is trained to provide structural and wildland fire protection, emergency rescue, including auto accident extrication, missing persons and OHV vehicle rescue. Our agency has a Zodiak rescue boat providing water rescue on our many lakes and assisting the Coast Guard with emergency services on the Siuslaw River.
Wildland training is becoming more prominent and we are involved with more paid conflagrations to hot spots throughout the west.
We respond with Western Lane Ambulance to providing back-up emergency medical response. Our agency is the host agency for the Western Lane Emergency Operations Group, providing disaster awareness, community education, and disaster response management.
We are now giving EMR and CPR Classes on a as needed basis. We work with other departments and train them as well. Last year, we offered an EMT class and gave out 9 scholarships to our volunteer firefighters.
We are growing and in the process and currently in an administrative collaboration with our local ambulance service and working towards becoming one entity.
Fire Prevention is a major objective of our organization with ongoing inspections, insuring required fire protection systems in commercial buildings are maintained to the required standards. We provide necessary fire prevention education to our local schools.
There are many military veterans working as volunteers and full-time members with Siuslaw Valley Fire and Rescue. Every one of our full-time members were volunteers in the past.
Training, Uniforms, and Turnouts are provided. There's a retirement fund and you are paid to go on calls too.
Volunteers receive a stipend for their training, incidents and events to participate in. Also, partial cell phone stipends.
Vounteering at the department is also possible. We have different opportunities in these non-combat positions.