Portland Police Arrest Firefighters' Union President for DUII

By BETH SLOVIC

Portland Police arrested Portland Firefighters Association president Jim Forquer last night on suspicion of DUII and reckless driving.

The 48-year-old union president and battalion chief with Portland Fire & Rescue was driving a 2008 Jeep Wrangler when he struck a telephone pole near Southeast 158th Avenue and Foster Road, according to a press release from Portland Police.

No other vehicle was involved, police say, and Forquer wasn't injured. He was booked into Multnomah County Jail at 9:53 pm on Jan. 25, then released.

Forquer didn't immediately return a phone call for comment.

(And from the department of odd coincidences, it's the second time in about a month that a prominent local union leader has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.)


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