Lebanon Police $30,000 Signing Bonus Raises Eyebrows
November 28, 2023
LEBANON — In a sign of the challenge police departments face in filling their ranks, the city’s police department has increased its signing bonus to
Noelle Bahnmiller was scheduled to be off work. But as a favor, she agreed to take another firefighter’s shift. It was early August, in the middle of a brutal fire season that already seemed endless. Lightning sparked the tinder-dry, remote wilderness in Mendocino County and Bahnmiller, then a captain at Cal Fire and her engine crew were dispatched to lay firehose across a ridgeline.
But a few hours later, her radio crackled with urgent voices: The fire blew up. It burned its way to the tops of the trees, creating a crown fire, the most feared and volatile wildfire.
With flames shooting 250 high or more – akin to a blazing, 23-story building – crown fires start on the ground and use small trees and lower limbs as ladders to catapult into the treetops. From that commanding height, embers are carried aloft on fire-created convection winds, sparking new blazes miles from the fire front.
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LEBANON — In a sign of the challenge police departments face in filling their ranks, the city’s police department has increased its signing bonus to
Ron Cato spent 30 years of his life marching into burning buildings, rescuing people from smoldering rubble and speeding down streets in a fire engine,
The Columbia River Fire & Rescue District and the local firefighters union signed a 2022-2025 contract but never had “a meeting of the minds” on substantial salary