Fire+Department



Here are some links to the history of the Forest Grove Fire Department.


 * Washington County Heritage Online (WCHO): Forest Grove Fire Department
 * "120 Years of Forest Grove Fire & Rescue: Firefighters share memories of a close call," The Oregonian, 14 February 2014

Major disasters include:


 * Fire of 1919 (WCHO Digital Photos)
 * "Two things saved the town from being wiped out. There was no buildings in the block between Pacific Avenue and 21st Street, College Way and Main Street except the Congregational Chruch. It burned down. Also there were no buildings on the Pacific University Campus along College Way leaving a large open space between the fire and the rest of the town in the path of the wind." -- "Van Dyke describes burning flames in 1919," News Times, 1/24/74 (EGS Box 1/ Folder 7/ Position 34).

Fires found from searching the Oregonian:


 * "Last Sunday Evening" the house of T. W. Hines burnt down in Forest Grove (Nov. 1, 1865)