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AMW Fugitive nabbed in Oregon |
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Written by OFP News Staff
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 10:50 |
 COTTAGE GROVE, OR (OFP) - The Cottage Grove Police Department became the nabster of this weeks talk of the town, when a couple of citizen reports spotted a wanted fugtive on the lam for nearly a year was spotted in the Central Lane County area last week. Suspect Michael Bresnahan, was spotted in the Sprinfield area, when a Wal-Mart employee recognized the Bresnahan from Fox's America's Most Wanted show, buying camping gear at the Springfield Wal-Mart Store, police said.
Meanwhile, Cottage Grove Police got their big break on Monday afternoon when a couple of alert citizens recognized Bresnahan after shoplifting from a Cottage Grove area store. Officer's from the CGPD canvased the area and confirmed with the store's security camera's that indeed that AMW's most wanted suspect was in their territorial waters and the hunt was on for Bresnahan.
Officer's were able to catch up with the suspect after he was seen walking along the railroad tracks heading back to his camp and a brief foot pursuit took place after Bresnahan gave up without a fight and was taken into custody. He remains lodged in the Lane County Jail on charges of being a fugitive from justice and burglary charges from his brush with the law back in Mass., police said. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 August 2008 11:34 |
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Gene Hughes - Police Call Author dead |
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Written by OFP News Staff
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Monday, 04 August 2008 22:35 |
 Gene Hughes was a pen name for Gene Costin. Costin died over the weekend at the age of 80 and left behind a legacy of tribute with his Police Call Frequency books that many scanner listeners in the United States said, "it was the bible of scanner listening", that turned the painstaking search for local public safety frequencies into an easier fraction of the scanner hobby.
Costin, retired after a 30 year career as a volunteer of the Los Angeles Police Department and a volunteer of the year award winner from the same department. Costin, made made scanning worthwhile with his frequency books, first starting out with California and later expanded to 9 regional volumes across the country, that were found on the bookshelfs of ever Radio Shack Store in the United States.
"Gene, changed the way we listened to our radios everyday and night across the land of this country, he was responsible for the most easy task we could ask for in a frequency book, that became wildly known to scanner hobbyists", Jeff Newton, owner of Oregon Firepage said of Costin, Monday when told of Hughes death. Costin's death is a legend of its own, he generousity to the scanning community was an asset, but his love for the hobby will not be forgotten. He'll be missed by all who knew him and his work in the LAPD and those who lurked the bookstore shelf. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 04 August 2008 23:30 |
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Lane County Amateurs respond to phone outage |
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Written by OFP News Staff
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 07:15 |
 "When all else fails" - That's exactly the way it happened this past weekend in Lane County, Oregon.
Lane County Amateur Radio Emergency Services was pressed into service early Friday afternoon, when a construction crew working on fiber optic cable near the 42nd and Mohawk area of Springfield accidently severed the line and disrupted 911 service to Qwest's 933 calling area serving residents of the Mohawk Valley area.
The incident began shortly before noon, when Lane County Amateur Radio Emergency Services Coordinator Mark Perrin received an urgent call from the Central Lane 911 Communications Center about available resources for a possible deployment of hams to the Mohawk Valley and Marcola area for Emergency Communications involving amateur radio with the 911 service outage in the Mohawk Valley area.
Qwest crews had estimated that they would probably have the line back in service before Friday evening, however, later estimates pushed the stats into the weekend, making the ARES deployment a long term possiblity into the weekend, officials said.
Perrin pressed into gear and mustered hams earlier in the day and had deployment teams set up at Mohawk Valley Fire Station's 1 and 4 at the request of 911 Officials. By 8:30 p.m., Friday night the repair estimates were calculated to be 24 hours or longer in reparir time, according to officials. Meanwhile, ARES Coordinator Perrin called in more hams to staff the Central Lane 911 Center's Amateur Radio Emergency Services radio room and assigned several amatuers into shifts at the fire stations and at the 911.
Amateurs at the fire stations were acting as defacto 911 emergency operators in case someone was in need of serious help and emergency information would be relayed to 911 supervisors in Eugene for dispatching and emeregency coordination among serviced agencies in the Mohawk Valley area via ham radio. At approximately 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning the net was stood down as Qwest officials advised they had repaired and tested the breached line and phone service was restored to the Mohawk Valley area.
There were no reports of serious injuries or incidents during the 911 outage, hams provided a valuable public service, after coming off another communications event during the Olympic Trials. |
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Brush fire on Skinners Butte |
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Written by OFP News Staff
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Saturday, 26 July 2008 07:32 |
 Eugene Firefighters are currently battling a brush fire on the western flank of Skinners Butte, atop the Basalt Rock Columns, a popular rock climbing wall with local rock climbers.
There have been no reports of injuries or damage to nearby residences in the area of the butte.
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Meanwhile, investigators have found a possible cause for last night's fire at the bottom of the Basalt Rock columns, which required a call to the EPD Bomb Squad to respond and rendem the device as safe to handle. Investigators say, the homemade fireworks did the job, but not the whole job it was supposed to do, investigators are continuing their investagation.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 27 July 2008 02:02 |
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Fire destroys historic barn in Cottage Grove |
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Written by OFP News Staff
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Friday, 18 July 2008 08:08 |
South Lane Fire and Rescue units responded to a reported structure fire at 327 South River Road early Thursday morning. Built in the 1800's in the old west Cottage Grove, a historical barn in this south Lane County town near the Lane/Douglas County line went up in smoke after century of life to the residents of Cottage Grove.
Firefighters say, the barn was fully involved when they arrived and the the barn had already collapsed shortly after they arrived. Mutual Aid units were called in to help protect exposures near the fire. Fire officials say the cause of the fire remains under investigation, but looks suspicious to them at this point. No one was injured during the fire. |
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