Welcome to the Camas-Washougal Fire Department (CWFD)
The Camas and Washougal Fire Departments are consolidated as one agency through a contract for service, providing both fire, fire prevention and emergency medical services to our citizens. We also provide emergency medical services to citizens outside city limits along with mutual aid fire protection to neighboring departments.
In 1883, the Camas Colony Company, formed by Oregonian publisher Henry Pittock and a group of investors, sought land near La Camas Lake on which to establish a paper mill that would produce newsprint for the Oregonian. The company plotted the cemetery in 1885, shortly after establishment of the mill, but their temporary layout markers were lost, and eventually so too were the plats. Although there is uncertainty over the early years, many believe the land the cemetery now occupies was originally owned by Donald Stearns, a close associate of Pittock.
