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9-404: Forest Grove started a volunteer fire department on February 4, 1894, with combination of two fire companies. The department was created after bucket brigades were determined to be inefficient, and the two fire companies spent too much time fighting each other. One of the first chiefs was J. G. Lenneville, who was first elected to the post in 1901, and served through at least 1923. In December 1907,

18-441: A number of participants sufficient for covering the distance. This principle inspired various technical items, e.g. the bucket-brigade device . The term "bucket brigade" is also used for a certain method of organizing manual order picking in distribution centers. Here customer orders to be processed are passed from one order picker to the next. When the last picker in line has finished picking an order they walk back and take over

27-422: Is a method for transporting items where items are passed from one (relatively stationary) person to the next. The method was important in firefighting before the advent of hand-pumped fire engines, whereby firefighters would pass buckets of water to each other to extinguish a blaze. This technique is still common where using machines to move water, supplies, or other items would be impractical. This method needs

36-418: Is located in downtown Forest Grove on Ash Street, which also houses the 1907 American LaFrance steamer. A second station is located in rural Gales Creek west of the city. The Gales Creek station, number 7, is staffed entirely by volunteers. Forest Grove Fire is led by Fire Chief Michael Kinkade. The service area for the rural district includes the communities of Gales Creek, Dilley , and Verboort . For 2013,

45-725: The May 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens , the city used the department to clean the ash off of city streets. As of 1980, the Rural District covered 88 square miles (230 km) and paid 39% of the combined entities' costs, though split capital expenditures at 50–50. At that time the combined department had 11 paid and 45 volunteer firefighters. One of the largest fires in the city came on July 14, 1982, when four downtown stores were burned, which required four alarms to contain. Firefighters from Gaston, Banks, Hillsboro , Cornelius, and Washington County Fire District 2 all helped put out

54-746: The city purchased a hose wagon for $ 100. The city replaced the fire bell that had been housed at a church and at the Old College Hall at Pacific University with an electric siren in October 1925. A 1907 steamer used by the Portland Fire Bureau was bought by Forest Grove in 1933 for $ 150, and is still owned by the fire department. In 1956, the Forest Grove Rural Fire Protection District merged into Forest Grove Fire Department. Following

63-547: The department had a total of 3,307 service calls, of which 2,297 were for emergency medical services and only 110 for fires. Of the 3,307 total calls, 2,794 were in the City of Forest Grove, while 408 were in the Rural Protection District. 45°31′07″N 123°06′35″W  /  45.51865°N 123.1097°W  / 45.51865; -123.1097 Bucket brigade A bucket brigade or human chain

72-483: The department was surrounded by turmoil concerning then chief Bob Mills as well as forgeries by Gary Clay Davis on fire inspection reports. The city was contracted by neighboring Cornelius in 2010 to provide administrative support to that city's combined city and rural fire department. In 2012, the department added living quarters to Station 7 in Gales Creek . The department maintains two stations. The main station

81-415: The fire that caused $ 800,000 in damage. By 1983 the Rural District had shrunk to 80 square miles (210 km) with 6,000 residents. The department converted an old 1973 Seagrave into a new pumper truck in 1984, saving $ 40,000 over buying a new piece of apparatus. The Spring Break Quake in 1993 damaged the main fire station on Ash Street in downtown, which was later repaired. In late 2006 and early 2007

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