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Cascade Locks Fire & EMS provides fire and ambulance services, and currently serves a population of 1150 in the City of Cascade Locks proper and additional rural residents in both Hood River and Multnomah Counties. Currently, the Department has one paid employee, a Paramedic, who is also the Fire Chief. The Department contracts with a volunteer association that provides volunteers who respond to medical, fire, and other emergency calls for assistance from Multnomah Falls (Interstate 84 mp 33) on the west to Viento State Park (I-84 mp 57) on the east.

This area encompasses a number of rural residences and clusters of property owners including the unincorporated towns of Warrendale and Dodson with an additional population of approx. 160. Virtually the entire profile of this area of Hood River and Multnomah Counties is in the Forested Urban Interface. Additionally, Cascade Locks Fire And Ambulance Departments provide first response protection to the Bonneville Dam facilities accessible from the Oregon side as well as the Cascade, Oxbow, and Bonneville Fish Hatcheries.

We also service several State and Federal Recreation areas in addition to providing emergency medical, fire, and extrication coverage for 24 miles of Interstate 84, the Union Pacific Rail Line, and a State of Oregon alternate airport landing strip in the middle of the City. Cascade Locks Fire Department also acts as 1st response (initial attack) to all forested areas within their response area.