Vote for Steve McAdoo starting Monday as the next voice of #Sparkythefiredog. www.facebook.com/sparkythefiredog One vote a day until Feb.28

Vote Steve McAdoo as next voice of Sparky the Fire Dog. www.facebook.com/sparkythe firedog or www.nfpa.org/sparkysbirthday. Once a day for 7

If you don't want a new skating rink in your yard or swimming pool in your basement. Get ready for arctic temps and take care of your pipes!

Home fire sprinklers offer enviromental benefits and reduce H2O usage http://www.nfpa.org/newsReleaseDetails.asp?categoryid=488&itemld=50509

Clackamas Firefighters explain the new carbon monoxide law to shoppers at Lowes in Clackamas. katu.com/news/local/118…

Good info from the EPA. Japanese Nuclear Emergency: EPA's Radiation Air Monitoring | US EPA http://www.epa.gov/japan2011/

Total number of calls for February-District wide-1,147. Oak Grove Station-248, Lake Road Station-123, Happy Valley Station-39. Be safe!-SM

Attending #CensusBureau training at #portlandfire. Very cool stuff! This will help us tremendously for community risk management, etc. -SM

Clackamas Fire board meeting tonite. DFM Kari Shanklin will present info re: smoke alarm grant. We installed over 720! Test your smoke alarm

Just signed up to attend the Communicators Conference on May 11th. http://www.pdxcommconf.org/ -SM

This morning we will be promoting and swearing in FF Andrew Brian as an Engineer (driver). Pictures and more info to follow.-SM

Listening to ANOTHER heroin od happening right now in Canby. We've certainly seen an increase in these calls lately. Sad.-SM

Attending the #pdxcommconf today. Lots of professional friends here-Yea! Should be a blast and I might learn something!-SM

Good to see Portland Fire & Rescue here at the #pdxcommconf. I think they are trying to bring themselves up to our level.-SM

Thanks for the warm welcome, good to see your faces Nick Bradshaw, Anita Kissée,@AnnaCanzanoKATU, Steve Dunn, KATU News, @KATUMeghan and all.

Attending the #140confnw in Vancouver. Great Social Media learning experience. http://bit.ly/j2mMpY Getting smarter by the minute.-SM

New Portland Police car design features a rose and Twitter address http://bit.ly/kwZUpa

Shall Boring Fire annex into Clackamas Fire? It's not too late vote! More info: clackamasfire.com/BFDCFDAnnexati….

Halloween Open House tonight at Eagle Creek Station 18! Dinner, candy, good company, and engine/station tours!

This fire had a big head start of firefighters today. It is challenging to get enough water and firefighters on scene fast enough to fight such a large fire. Crews worked diligently to get hose lines in place to bring this large house fire under control quickly.