Philomath Fire and Rescue

Benton County
Request: $12,500

Philomath Fire and Rescue is a small combination department situated in the central Willamette Valley of Western Oregon, serving approximately 10,000 residents. We also provide automatic aid to neighboring departments, including the City of Corvallis, which has a population of over 60,000. Our department responds to over 1,000 calls for service annually.  The department provides all hazard emergency response to the community we serve, our mutual aid partners and throughout the State of Oregon for conflagration response. We are seeking support to purchase 4 programmable radios used to communicate with other resources on major incidents such as large wildfires during conflagration request, and additional fire shelters to protect our firefighters. During conflagration responses we have been able to borrow radios from another agency within the county who has been able to spare a single radio for the crew to share.