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Wednesday, January 24, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Fire Corps assists Sisters Community Wrong-way driver runs
into sheriff’s patrol
The Sisters-Camp
Sherman Fire District formal-
ized a program for auxiliary
volunteers in January 2015.
Fire Corps program volun-
teers assist fire department
and related community ser-
vice functions in non-emer-
gency roles as needed for the
fire district.
Fire Corps assignments
include: Administrative
functions (office work, data
entry), life safety educa-
tion such as CPR and First
Aid training, blood pressure
assessments, green emer-
gency address sign program,
public and fire/EMS depart-
ment assistance and commu-
nity risk (smoke alarms and
fire prevention/safety educa-
tion). Fire Corps members
may also receive training in
other duties and programs as
assigned by the fire chief.
The Fire Corps initially
started with just a few mem-
bers; as of December 2017 it
has 24 members. Those 24
members volunteered 2,532
hours in 2017 assisting the
Fire Department with com-
munity and fire/life safety
events.
Beverly Halcon is the
Fire Corps chairperson and
manages the activities for
the members. The group had
many accomplishments in
2017 including:
• Completed 416 blood
pressure readings during
monthly Bi-Mart blood pres-
sure clinics. These are held
on the third Tuesday of each
month from noon to 4 p.m.
• Installed 40 green reflec-
tive emergency address signs
throughout the Fire District.
The signs help crews quickly
locate addresses.
• Taught 10 CPR/AED and
First Aid classes educating
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southbound lanes of travel
just north of Empire Avenue.
Bend police units along
with Oregon State police
responded to investigate the
crash. ODOT responded and
closed the southbound lanes.
Robert Hughes, 59, of
Bend, was arrested for DUII
and reckless driving, Assault
IV and reckless endangering.
Hughes was not injured.
Sergeant Johnstone was trans-
ported to St. Charles Medical
Center in Bend where he
was treated for non-life-
threatening injuries and later
released.
Beverly Halcon and Les Schell took the blood pressure of numerous
Sisters Country residents at Bi-Mart during a Fire Corps clinic.
106 community members.
• Performed residential
smoke alarm testing along
with the American Red
Cross covering 29 homes
and installing over 91 smoke
alarms.
• Checked a total of 50
child safety seats through
three Sisters-area clinics and
other regional clinics.
• Began an AED grant
program encouraging busi-
nesses in the Sisters area to
purchase automated exter-
nal defibrillators. Nine addi-
tional AEDs were added to
the community due to this
program.
Fire Chief Roger Johnson
said, “I am so proud of all
of our Fire Corps members.
They provide services for our
community that we wouldn’t
otherwise be able to provide.
I am convinced that their
efforts have saved lives and
will save many more in the
years to come.”
For more information
about the Fire Corps pro-
gram, contact the Sisters-
Camp Sherman Fire District
at 541-549-0771.
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A sheriff’s patrol sergeant was hit by a wrong-way driver.
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A wrong-way driver on
the Bend Parkway ran into a
sheriff’s patrol — literally.
The incident unfolded late
Thursday night, when Bend
police were notified around
11:47 p.m. by several callers
that a pickup truck was speed-
ing northbound in the south-
bound lanes of the Parkway
near Hawthorne Avenue.
As the call was being
broadcast, Deschutes County
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