All hail Hall group — SEE LIFE, B1 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2014 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPER • PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND THURSDAY Who’s New LED knockin’? streetlights ROSE City fi re will save CITY’S crews Pilot program of money, BRIGHT expanded duties adds home inspections energy By STEVE LAW IDEA The Tribune Portland fi refi ghters are getting some new duties when they’re not busy put- ting out blazes or going on emergency medical calls. Starting Oct. 1, some Port- land Fire & Rescue crews will start conducting home safety inspections for residents who request them. Other crews will start teaching weekly safety, health and fitness lessons in after-school programs. Both are pilot programs, to see if they fit in with firefighters’ other duties. “It makes a more thorough use of people who are on du- ty 24/7,” says TRIBUNE PHOTOS: JAIME VALDEZ city Commis- There’s a different q uality of light on Southeast 5 7 th Avenue due to a recently installed LED streetlight. Over the nex t two years, all Portland streetlights will be converted to LEDs. sioner Dan Saltzman, who gained over- sight of the fi re JANSSENS hen David Nemo, president of Rose City bureau last summer. Astronomers, wants to stargaze for an Saltzman earlier champi- evening he heads out to a favorite spot or oned the installation of A-frame two in the Columbia Gorge. The view isn’t signs outside each fi re station. W The sidewalk signs, which went nearly as clear as out by Prineville or Maupin, but it’s up this spring, invite passers- passable, and accessible. by to come in and get their blood pressure checked or get “You can see traces of the Milky Way, depending on advice on smoke and carbon whether the moon’s up or not,” Nemo says. monoxide alarms or other fi re and safety information. Unspoken, but understood, is that ability manager. Now fi refi ghters will be go- Nemo and his fellow stargazers long LED fi xtures are expected to save ing out to the community more ago learned they can’t see much from the city $1.5 million a year in reduced in the two pilot programs, within Portland’s city limits. But that energy and maintenance costs. Cur- dubbed the Community Risk soon should change. rently, streetlights rep- Reduction Program. The city of Portland STORY BY resent about a fi fth of These are not just make- has begun replacing its the city’s electrical bill. work projects, says Fire Chief 55,000 mostly high- PETER KORN The LED lamps will re- Erin Janssens. pressure sodium vapor duce energy usage in “House fires are where 80 street lamps with light each lamp by about 60 percent of all fi re deaths occur,” -emitting diode (LED) lights. The percent. That means a total reduc- she says, so preventing those two-year, $18.5 million project repre- tion in city electrical usage by 12 per- fi res is an important part of the sents “the single-largest energy-effi - cent, or about 20 million kilowatt bureau’s work. cient project the city has ever done, hours a year. In addition, the LEDs Eric Bainbridge, apprentice lineman with Christenson Electric, Inc., turns on the Saltzman pushed the in- by a large margin,” according to Mi- power switch of an LED fi x ture he installed after removing a high- pressure sodium home voluntary inspections, chael Armstrong, Portland’s sustain- See LIGHTS / Page 2 streetlight in the W oodstock neighorhood. See FIRE / Page 1 1 Women at helm of new Division retail cluster well, Portland. cones and baking bread in the air Small, local shops The fl oral company that equips from Salt & Straw and St. Honoré From left, many of the Rose City’s high-pro- Boulangerie across the street, Fieldwork open in burgeoning fi le restaurants and right alongside Ro- Flowers’ Megan Southeast district events is Fieldwork man Candle Baking Flowers, a 4-year- Co. and Ava Gene’s, Arambul and By JENNIFER ANDERSON old business that TribTown the spot may be one Annie Sanditen and Nationale The Tribune will open its second SOUTHEAST of the most coveted location this month in the city for any art gallery’s Have you noticed the fl ow- on Southeast Division Street. retail space. May Barruel and ers at Pok Pok? The food-centric heart of Divi- Visitors coming for the food Gabi Lewton- Or at Ava Gene’s, the Woods- sion, between 30th and 34th ave- also will have somewhere to shop Leopold gather man Tavern, Stumptown Coffee nues, “is the absolute most excit- and pass the time while they en- outside their or the Ace Hotel? ing neighborhood in Portland,” joy their cone or wait for a table new spaces on Chances are, you don’t recall says Annie Sanditen, co-owner of to free up. Southeast the fl owers specifi cally, but they Fieldwork, one of four businesses By coincidence, the three busi- Division Street. did add to the unique aesthetic of to open in a new LEED platinum nesses moving into the ground TRIBUNE PHOTO: the place, the fresh feel, the de- building at 33rd and Division. 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Those ings from reduced electrical used the Coalition for a Liv- generators produce about 12 usage, along with reduced able Future’s equity atlas, million kilowatt hours a year maintenance, should have paid which details Portland neigh- — not even close to the 20 off the costs of the changeover. borhood demographics to map million kilowatts per year the The LEDs also open up a out its lamp replacement LEDs are expected to save. world of programmable oppor- schedule. Kardel, of tunities. Some day, city engi- “What we the Interna- neers may be able to save en- wanted to do “ It will certainly change tional Dark ergy by instantly dimming at the end of the character of the way Sky Associa- lights on roadways when no the day is say tion, is more cars are around, or they might we didn’t sin- the city look s at night.” concerned turn street lamps on and off to gle out any — Scott K ardel, International Dark about another direct police to emergency sit- one income or Sk y Association kind of ener- uations, according to Scott any one race,” gy. His orga- Kardel, acting executive direc- Koonce says. nization lob- tor of the Tucson’s Interna- Seattle didn’t take neighbor- bies worldwide for a return to tional Dark Sky Association. hood demographics into ac- the truly dark night skies Chattanooga, Tenn., in- count when it changed to that existed long ago. He stalled 350 LED lamps in a LEDs, Koonce adds, and the cites studies showing our gang-infested park and gave city got complaints. nighttime light pollution is police the ability to turn indi- New Columbia in North Port- responsible for all sorts of vidual lights on and off from land already has had its lamps modern-day problems, from their squad cars when they changed to LEDs, and work has disruption of animal mating wanted to disperse groups. begun on a number of outer and migration patterns, to Portland Bureau of Transpor- Southeast Portland neighbor- sleep deprivation in people tation engineers have talked TRIBUNE PHOTOS: JAIME VALDEZ hoods. One thing the city isn’t whose circadian rhythms are about possibly using the LEDs The Portland Bureau of Transportation is using neighborhood demographics to ensure an eq uitable order of doing, according to Koonce, is thrown out of whack. to brighten up the Old Town change for city streetlights. waiting for the old bulbs to die Kardel isn’t saying that the Entertainment District after before replacing them with the switch to LED streetlights the bars close, once the new roadway. new LEDs. Koonce says other will completely erase light lamps are installed. “It will certainly change the cities have tried that and failed pollution. Sodium lamps in character of the way the city the equity test. privately owned parking lots Looking down on the city looks at night,” Kardel says. “What they were fi nding remain a problem. But, And one not insignifi cant “If you’re fl ying at night over Eric Bainbridge, out was they were only get- Kardel says, the reduction in side effect will be a dramatic Portland and looking down, an apprentice ting complaints from the high- Portland’s light pollution reduction in the light pollu- you shouldn’t see any glare lineman with er-income neighborhoods,” he should be significant — in tion that keeps amateur as- that shines at you.” Christenson says. many ways.