Public Education Event – Wild Fire Prevention
South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue is excited to announce a vital public education event focused on wildfire protection strategies. We are honored to host Forest Ownby, an expert from the Department of Natural Resources, [...]
January 2024 Volunteer Spotlight
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 [...]
Press Release – Structure Fire January 15th
South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue was called out to a fully engulfed structure fire on January 15th. SPOFR Interim Chief Dan Williams was the Incident Commander for the fire and reported, “There were no [...]
SPOFR Public Meeting – Dan Williams as Interim Fire Chief
Dan Williams began his career with the Fire Service in 2005 as a volunteer with Spokane 4. He said, “I actually fell in love with it. I love the comradery of the Fire Service and [...]
Press Release – SPOFR Public Meeting
South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue hosted a public meeting at the Sacheen Lake Fire Station on Tuesday, December 19th. Commissioner Chairman Galen Hansen called the meeting to order and welcomed the public, SPOFR staff [...]
Press Release – Life Flight Training at SPOFR
South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue hosted a LifeFlight training event on Saturday December 16th at the Sacheen Lake Fire station. SPOFR Captain Coral McLain organized the event with Dustin Waterbly, FP-C who is a [...]