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According to the Eugene Fire Station's website the fire station was first organized on April 3 1872. Their first name was "Eugene Hook and Ladder No. 1" which was comprised of seven people. Originally the volunteers were not paid, but were asked to come directly to the station day or night if there was an emergency. the first four hose stations were on "at 8th Avenue and Park Street, on Lawrence Street between 5th and 6th Avenues, on East 11th Avenue between Patterson and Ferry Streets, and at 14th Avenue and Columbia Street."



There are 10 fire stations in eugene and one in every airport. Each fire station has one fire engine. In Eugene firefighters work a 24 hour shift. When you dial 911 a police car, ambulance and a fire truck comes where the person called. by Mohammed

Duty, Honor, Service is the slogan of Eugene Fire and EMS. The department responds from eleven locations; ten in the city and one at the airport. All the fire stations have at least one fire engine. except the airport station where instead, they have a special airport rescue/ response equipment. Two stations, Whitteaker and downtown also have fire trucks. Ele-S.

In the Eugene downtown fire station there are 27 **PEOPLE** .Every 9 people work a 24 hour shift.3 people can ride a fire truck,3 people can ride a fire engine,2 people can ride a ambulance and 1 person for the chief.In 1872 Georgr kenzy was the **FIRST CHIEF** in Eugene.There is 4 ambulances in Eugene and 3 in springfield.Firefighters have to **KEEP EXERSIZING** so they could be in a good shape.When there is a fire firefighters do **NOT** get down from the stairs they get down from poles.There are 2 poles.The Eugene downtown fire station is the bussiest station in Eugene.They get about 3-4 small fire,1 big fire,5-6 medical 1-2 big and dangerous injuries and 1-2 car acsidants in a **WEEK**.The most car acsidants,medical calls and fires happen in the summer.Firefighters have to wear there 60 **POUND** close in less than a minute.Firefighters have to cover all there skin to go to a fire.Firefighters have thick gloves. Firefighters have to be at the fire in between 3-4 minutes.A wheel of a fire truck is 4 feet high. A fire truck can go **62 MILES PER AN HOUR**.One of the hoses that are on the fire truck is a 800 feet long and the other one is 5 inches long.When you squart water from a fire truck's hose it pushes you 50 pounds because there is so much water coming out. When there is a big fire firefighters use a chain saw to cut holes on top of the roof so the poison gas goes away. When your clothes is on fire the best thing to do is stop,drop and roll. If you have a pet do **NOT** rescue it because they'll find there way out. If your surrouned by fire **DON'T** stand up you should be crawling because on the top is lots of poison gas.by mohammed