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Kerr honored for longtime service to Lincoln City fire department

Fellow firefighters, friends and family helped snuff out retiring Fire Chief Doug Kerr's 35 years of volunteer and career service to North Lincoln Fire & Rescue on Thursday with a farewell ceremony at the St. Clair Station in Taft.

Local volunteer firefighters graduate from academy training

Six months of training concluded Thursday with a ceremony for the  graduates of the Central Oregon Coast Training Officer’s Association's (COCTOA) Fire Academy.

Accidental gunshot victim Life Flighted to save arm

Lincoln City resident Douglas Stewart, 49, was home alone at 6431 NW Logan Road when he accidentally shot himself in the arm last night, prompting a Life Flight helicopter trip to save his arm.

All students safe following gas leak at Taft Elementary

All students were evacuated but all are safe after workers with the Lincoln County School District inadvertently struck a one-inch gas pipe with a backhoe while rerouting a sewer line at Taft Elementary School today.

Dahlman elected to replace Kerr as NLFR chief on interim basis

Emergency Medical Services Division Chief Rob Dahlman was elected interim North Lincoln Fire & Rescue Department fire chief Wednesday following the recent retirement of longtime Chief Doug Kerr.

Local fire districts to reignite discussion of consolidation of services

Exploratory action into the possibility of consolidating services between Lincoln City and Depoe Bay fire and rescue operations will be reignited at 5 p.m. tonight at Station 2200 at 6445 Gleneden Beach Loop.

Winds cause traffic signal cable failure at Logan Road and 101

North Lincoln Fire Rescue (NLFR) is responding to a detached traffic light cable at NW Highway 101 and Logan Road caused by the high winds in Lincoln City.

Woman trapped in crashed pickup overnight off Schooner Creek Road

A red pickup truck crashed into the trees off Schooner Creek Road near Milepost 3.5 at approximately 2 a.m. Tuesday morning leaving a woman trapped behind the steering wheel until rescuers got the call at 7:45 a.m. and arrived to extricate her. 

Highway 101 reopened following evening traffic accident

Lincoln City's main thoroughfare was shut down for a brief time and reopened Monday evening following a traffic accident near Habitat for Humanity's ReStore at 2150 SE Highway 101.

UPDATED: Truck bumps woman with stroller in downtown Lincoln City

A truck going approximately 2 mph bumped a woman in a crosswalk near Highway 101 at NW 14th Street in Lincoln City on Saturday, causing her to knock over her baby's stroller and prompting an ambulance trip to the hospital.

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