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sits on an extinct cinder cone volcano and contains over 600 acres of meadowland and forest that feature miles of trails for hikers, mountain bikers, and horseback riders. There are rabbits, ring-necked pheasants, ground squirrels, raccoons, gray foxes, skunks, bats, chipmunks, coyotes, and black-tailed mule deer. The park is also home to many birds of prey, with its open meadows, groves of wild hawthorn trees, forested slopes of Western red cedar, and wetlands near Johnson Creek.
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Serving the community through preparedness, teamwork, and commitment
A message from Christine Pezzulo, Portland Fire & Rescue Fire Inspector
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Photo caption: Fire Inspector Christine Pezzulo and a team from Portland Fire and Rescue gather the morning they drove to Los Angeles last week to battle raging wildfires.
As a firefighter, you have to be ready at a moment’s notice. We’d all been watching the wildfire news out of Los Angeles, and we knew we could get a call. Then the Oregon State Fire Marshal requested our help. A few hours later, we were on our way.
I joined a task force from the Portland area who went to respond. Right now, we’ve got five engines and 22 firefighters from Portland Fire & Rescue, Gresham Fire Department, and Port of Portland Fire Department. We’re teaming up with thousands of firefighters battling one of the most destructive blazes in L.A.’s history.
I was born and raised in southern California, so the safety of the community is really on my mind. Hundreds of thousands of acres burned, thousands of houses lost. Not sure how many fatalities. It’s absolutely horrible. We’re going to give all that we can to those who have already been in this fight for days.
When I was younger, I had no idea that women could be firefighters. I learned about it when I was in my early twenties. I was drawn to the physicality of it, the challenges, and the constant learning. I worked for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, then joined a hotshot crew, which is a team specializing in fighting wildfire. I joined Portland Fire & Rescue 18 years ago. I love getting to work with wonderful people who all have the same mission -- to do the best we can for our community.
Portland Fire & Rescue is in Los Angeles as mutual aid: It means we’re here for you, you’re here for us. It means coming together as a bigger team and working with our partners outside the city of Portland. We are honored to put ourselves out there and do our part and do everything we can to get this thing under control.
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After a major earthquake, when telephone service is down, how do you ask for emergency assistance or report severe damage? Go to your nearest Basic Earthquake Emergency Communication Node. Volunteers around the city are trained to staff these radio communications sites.
Next training is January 27, 2025, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
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Help name a PBOT snowplow in our inaugural snowplow naming contest! Did you know the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) owns and operates 56 snowplows?
Voting ends at 5 p.m., January 22.
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Apply to serve on the City of Portland’s new Sustainability and Climate Commission. Twenty Portlanders will be selected to serve on the advisory body, which includes four youth seats (ages 16-24).
Applications are due this Friday, January 17
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Register online, over the phone through the Portland Parks & Recreation Customer Service Center (503-823-2525), or by calling or visiting a recreation or arts center. If cost is a barrier to participating, consider signing up for an Access Discount.
Sign up begins January 16 at 9:30 a.m.
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Do you have information and insight about the Lower Albina, Lloyd, and Rose Quarter areas? If so, please help shape the Reconnecting Albina Planning Project, a two-year effort to create restorative urban development strategies that reconnect the area’s physical fabric. Your comments on the Pin It, Portland: Reconnecting Albina map will help identify assets, opportunities, and challenges.
Map is open for input until January 15.
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Meetings and Ongoing Opportunities
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“Our Safe Rest Village aims to provide emotional and physical safety,” says Jeray (left), a staff member. Read and watch more stories from the 2025 City of Portland Shelter Services 2023-24 Annual Report.
Over the past year the City of Portland's Shelter Services program has expanded to include nine shelters, including the original Safe Rest Villages, a Temporary Alternative Shelter Site, and a congregate shelter, all under the same umbrella. All sites offer 24/7 staffing, services, case management and support navigating to housing. This annual report shares the results of data collection from the past fiscal year, as well as cumulative data. There are stories, video, outcomes, and financial information.
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In 2024, the Portland Police Bureau implemented a mission-driven crime reduction plan that applies data-driven approaches to focus on specific locations, crimes or neighborhood concerns. Calls for service decreased, and crime went down in several categories compared to numbers the previous year.
We will continue this approach in 2025, striving to improve through increased data gathering, better metrics to measure our work, additional internal and external partnerships, fiscal responsibility and responsiveness to community voices.
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As negotiations remain unresolved with two major labor organizations, the City of Portland submitted its “final offers” recently to the state’s Employee Relations Board – committing $19 million in new spending over the next three years, from salary boosts to extra pay for certifications. The latest updates can be found: Portland.gov/bargaining/news.
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The City Budget Office, in collaboration with district coalition offices, is hosting both online and in-person sessions to help the community understand the budget process. These sessions will provide an introduction to the City's budget process, along with information about the new form of government and general ways to connect with the City.
Four sessions will be held in January 2025.
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Volunteers at an Irving Park Nature Patch event.
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Request an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for any City of Portland program, service, event, or activity. To ensure the best response, please make your request at least five business days before the program or event, if possible. |
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Volunteer events
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Your Portland moment
Keeping Portland colorful
The St. Johns community came together last summer to paint this mural on North Charleston Avenue. The 850-foot-long painting physically connects the St. Johns Library, James John Elementary School, and the St. Johns Farmers Market.
Students from the elementary school designed the three huge dragons and several smaller characters, with the parent-teacher association and families coming together to do the painting.
The St. Johns mural is the longest street painting ever accomplished in Portland. The first ever street painting was installed in 1996, and there have been more than 175 individual paintings since then.
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Traducción e Interpretación | Biên Dịch và Thông Dịch | अनुवादन तथा व्याख्या
口笔译服务 | Устный и письменный перевод | Turjumaad iyo Fasiraad
Письмовий і усний переклад | Traducere și interpretariat | Chiaku me
Awewen Kapas
Translation and Interpretation: 3-1-1
The City of Portland ensures meaningful access and reasonably provides: translation, interpretation, modifications, accommodations, alternative formats, auxiliary aids and services. To request these services, call 311 for Relay Service or TTY: 711.
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