Less than five hours into its first shift after being reemployed from a Wildfire Safety Grant from the Oregon Office of the State Fire Marshal, Lebanon Fire District dispatched its Brush 31 (B31) wildland firefighting apparatus to a first alarm brush fire in the 33000 block of Totem Pole Road on July 25.
First arriving responders found a slow-moving grass and brush fire, approximately one-acre in size. LFD responded with 25 personnel on 11 apparatus…