MEDFORD, Ore. – Josephine County officials held a town hall meeting to discuss adding a new fire district, funded by property taxes. This meeting comes after one of two private owned fire districts serving the area closed its doors. That ...
JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. – Weeks after a rural fire company closed in Josephine County, commissioners are once again considering creating a new fire district. County Fire Department, a privately owned company, officially closed its doors July 1. It served the ...
GRANTS PASS, Ore. – Multiple agencies responded to a heavy structure fire in Grants Pass Saturday that destroyed a home and several vehicles. Rural Metro said around 4:30 Saturday afternoon, someone stopped by their North Valley Station and reported a ...
JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. – Dwen Laughlin said she goes to the Applegate River all the time with her sons. But this past Saturday, she found herself in a situation she never thought she’d be in. “I’m a really strong swimmer ...
GALICE, Ore. – A camper and her dog are missing and thought to have drowned, after an incident at Indian Mary County Park on Friday. Rural Metro Fire said the incident happened at the park’s boat ramp into the Rogue ...
GRANTS PASS, Ore. – An escaped debris burn, burned through six properties in grants pass Saturday. Rural Metro said at around 4 pm Saturday they got a call about a vegetation fire in the 2,000 block of Allen Creek Road. ...
MURPHY, Ore. Rural Metro Fire helped contain a burning motorhome Friday morning. A disabled RV was found fully involved at the 200 block of Hillview drive according to the agency. Rural Metro said the fire posed no threat to nearby ...
GRANTS PASS, Ore. – For the first time since 2018, new recruits with Rural Metro Fire Department took part in a Burn to Learn event on Saturday. These teams of new firefighters worked together to extinguish multiple fires in a ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – Rural Metro Fire in Josephine County is scheduled to do a live fire training exercise on Saturday. The training often called Burn to Learn will be at a donated structure in the 4100 block of New Hope ...
JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. – There will soon be a new fire chief for Rural Metro Fire in Josephine County. Phil Turnbull is retiring after 43 years as fire chief. He’s been with rural metro for almost it’s whole existence. He ...