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Portland firefighters run ragged by pace of downtown overdose calls
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KGW reporter Blair Best recently rode along with firefighters in downtown Portland. They responded to a series of overdose calls within the space of a few hours, but not a single fire. That's a growing trend for the crews at Fire Station 1, who responded to 300 overdoses in June alone.
Read more: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/portland-downtown-firefighter-overdose-calls-narcan-deaths/283-a37b7402-c199-40ce-a120-bb6aec149365
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