Jeff Norling, Firefighter Jeff Norling is our South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue Volunteer of the Month for February. After talking with our former Chief Brad Martin, Jeff decided to join and has been a volunteer fireman for two years. He is currently the facilities and apparatus manager, taking care of over 40 vehicles and 9 [...]
Corey Toombs, Resident Firefighter, Sacheen Lake Station Lieutenant Corey Toombs, a single father of a teenage son, is our January Volunteer of the Month. In addition, he has been named the SPOFR 2023 Firefighter of the Year. Corey has been a volunteer firefighter with SPOFR for three years. He has a CLASS A CDL, so he [...]
Liam Nutter - EMT & Firefighter This month’s Spotlight Volunteer of the Month is Liam Nutter, who was recently named 2023 Recruit of the Year. He has been with SPOFR for a year and started when his sister saw an ad for an EMT class. Liam said, “I wanted to be an EMT.” After graduation from [...]
Corey Toombs, 2023 Volunteer of the Year Corey Toombs, a single father of a teenage-old son, is our Volunteer of the Year. Corey has been a volunteer firefighter with SPOFR for three years. He has a CLASS A CDL, so he is very capable of driving our engines and tenders. He also was on two wildland [...]
Deane Nusbaum - EMT & Firefighter This month’s Spotlight Volunteer of the month is Deane Nusbaum who has been with South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue since 2013. He is an EMT and Firefighter. Deane is also the SPOFR Sign Program Manager. The SPOFR Firefighters will custom make an address sign for you that will be [...]
Donna Olmstead - Advanced EMT & Firefighter This month’s Spotlight Volunteer of the month is Donna Olmstead who has been with South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue for almost 8 years. She is an Advanced EMT and Firefighter. Donna has also been a volunteer with Kalispel Tribal Fire for the same amount of time. Donna originally [...]
Brad Hanson - Firefighter, EMT & Engineer This month’s recipient is Brad Hanson, as announced by Chief Brad Martin. Brad has been with SPOFR since 2014 and is also in the host of the Veterans Stand Down for the past five years in Newport. He started this in memory of Brian Pinkney, his friend with three [...]
Paul Haa - Firefighter & Tender Operator Paul has been with SPOFR for the past thirteen years and started out as a Water Tender Driver. Then one day a truck needed repairs and Paul said, “Why don’t we buy a kit and fix it?” Since then, he has been in high demand. On wildland fires, if [...]
Butch Lee, Firefighter, Diamond Lake Station South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue continues the volunteer appreciation program called SPOFR Volunteer Spotlight. This is a way to recognize the volunteers when you see them in the community grocery store or at any local activities. This month’s recipient is Butch Lee as announced by Chief Brad Martin. Butch [...]
Larry Hiebert, Battalion Captain, Spring Valley Station Our February volunteer is Larry Hiebert, Battalion Captain and former Chief at Fire District 8 prior to the merger in January. Larry started in 1989 when they started a Fire Association and he remembers a phone tree calling system for fires response. Then in 1993 he attended the Fire [...]
