LEBANON, Ore. (KATU) — On Feb. 6, 2025, a group of Safeway employees in Lebanon demonstrated heroism when a co-worker
suffered a sudden cardiac arrest in the store’s break room.

Mary Stratton, John Escalera, Brandy Davis, and Tammy Vanepps-
Fox acted in time, performing CPR and using an Automated
External Defibrillator to administer two shocks before emergency responders arrived.

Their prompt actions were crucial in giving the patient a fighting
chance at survival.

Upon arrival, Lebanon Fire District crews continued treatment,
applying two additional shocks and achieving Return of
Spontaneous Circulation before stabilizing the patient was
transported to the hospital and discharged several days later.

The lifesaving efforts of Stratton, Escalera, Davis, and Vanepps-
Fox were recognized at the Lebanon Fire District’s Board Meeting
on March 11, 2025.

LFD also expressed gratitude to its crew members for their
professional response. The Fire District encourages the
community to stay prepared by learning CPR and AED
skills, which can be life-saving.

lebanonfireoregon.gov/321/PulsePoint.

At 2:00 p.m. on Friday, February 16, 1968, history was
made. That’s when state Rep. Rankin Fite made the
first call to 911 in the nation.

U.S. Rep. Tom Bevill answers the first 911 call at the
Haleyville (Ala.) police station with “Hello.” Directly
behind him is Bull Connor, head of the state’s Public
Service Commission, and B.W. Gallagher, president
of the Alabama Telephone Co.

February 16, 1968 saw the first official "911" call placed in the
United States. Now taken for granted as first course of action
in the event of emergency by nearly all of the nation’s 327
million people, 911 is a relatively recent invention and was
still not standard across the United States for many years
after its adoption by Congress.

As telephones became common in U.S. households, fire
departments around the country recommended establishing
a single, simple number to be dialed in the event of a fire or
other emergency.

The red phone used to make the first call to 911.

Corbett Fire’s "Christmas Chicken" (Corbett Fire)

Corbett Fire will be accepting donations this Thursday,
December 12, from 7 to 8 a.m. at the CAPS school in
Springdale and the main campus in Corbett to support
Christmas Chicken and local programs spreading holiday
cheer by delivering gifts to needy families in the Corbett
area.
 

Donations can also be made at Country Coffee, the Corbett
Country Market, and the Springdale Tavern.

Checks can be mailed to:

Christmas Chicken
P.O. Box 1
Corbett, Oregon 97019

   
In Baltimore, Maryland, a small fire in the business district is
wind-whipped into an uncontrollable conflagration that engulfs
a large portion of the city by evening. The fire is believed to have
been started by a discarded cigarette in the basement of the
Hurst Building.

Miraculously, official reports said no lives were lost—although
some reports did claim one man perished—and Baltimore’s
domed City Hall, built in 1867, was preserved.

The Baltimore fire was deemed to be the nations third worst fire,
after the Chicago Fire and the San Francisco Fire following the earthquake.

The John E. Hurst Building.

It was a 6 story dry goods company, almost everything inside
was flammable. The other firemen inside were able to escape
without injury, however, the lead horse for Engine 15 was
severely burned.

The remains of the Hurst Building. One of the teams of horses used to pull the engines is visible on the left.

A 1 ton, white Percheron draft horse, named Goliath, the lead
of the three horse team, was pulling the Hale Water Tower into
position on Liberty Street when the building exploded.

Goliath survived his injuries, although he spent 6 months under
the vets care. He went back to being a fire horse, but became a
favorite with children at parades.

Brandon Wade Norbury Feb. 27, 1972 – Feb. 3, 2023)

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has
ordered flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown
at half-staff until sunset on February 15 to honor
Gresham Firefighter Brandon Norbury, who died after
suffering cardiac arrest while on duty.

(FUNERAL SERVICE, 1:00 PM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15)

EAST HILL CHURCH FAMILY

701 N. MAIN AVE, GRESHAM, OR.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2023