On November 30th, South Pend Oreille Fire & Rescue, in partnership with the City of Newport, celebrated its Grand Re-Opening after an extensive remodeling. South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue professional firefighters and EMS providers can now staff this centrally located station 24/7. In the well over 110 years of organized fire protection in Newport, this [...]
South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue Chief Shane Stocking is excited to announce our Newport Fire Station Community Re-Dedication Event, which will be in partnership with the City of Newport on November 30th, starting at Noon. Chief Shane wants to thank the many dedicated staff, volunteers, and SPOFR Commissioners who helped with the painting and cleaning [...]
October 28th is recognized as National First Responders Day. I would like to honor all first responders today, firefighters, medical personnel and our law enforcement brothers and sisters. It takes great personal and family sacrifice to answer the call and serve one's neighbors. It takes waking up in the middle of the night. It takes being [...]
On Friday morning, South Pend Oreille Fire Rescue responded to a residential fire on Yarrow Lane, in Newport. Arriving crews found a well-involved structure fire and acted quickly to contain the fire and prevent it from spreading to dry brush and nearby structures. SPOFR thanks our volunteers, career staff, and mutual aid partners for their response [...]
Thank you, David Smith, Newport School Superintendent, and Stratton Elementary Principal Jenny Erickson for allowing South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue to talk with all Stratton Second Grade classes about fire safety this week. South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue Chief Shane Stocking gave fire safety presentations, including what to do when they hear a smoke [...]
From September 20th to September 29th, Chief Stocking participated in a medical mission trip to the Puno Region of Peru, specifically the city of Ayaviri, Peru. This was over his twentieth medical mission to Peru and Africa and his eighth to this specific spot with this team. He has been participating in these volunteer missions since [...]
This past week, South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue visited Stratton Elementary School to attend their scheduled fire drill. While at the school, we talked to the Kindergarten classes and let them sit inside our fire truck and walk through our ambulance so if they ever see us, they will not be afraid of our apparatus [...]
The Commissioners of SPOFR have made a formal job offer to Shane Stocking and he has accepted the position of the next Fire Chief of SPOFR. Shane comes to us with more than 15 years of Fire Service experience. Shane spent time with career Fire Departments in both California and Florida during that time. Shane is [...]
South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue wishes to thank Newport Hospital and Health Services for providing a building for us to perform valuable controlled live burn training exercises. This training consisted of search and rescue exercises led by Lieutenant Corey Toombs prior to the controlled burn and the defensive controlled live burn training on June 15th. [...]
NEWPORT, WA – On Saturday June 15th at approximately 10:00 a.m. South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue will conduct a controlled live fire burn training exercise at 200 N. Scott Avenue in cooperation with Newport Hospital and Health Services (NHHS). Scott Avenue between Spruce Street and 1st Street will be closed to through traffic. Additionally, Pine [...]
