Who is enforcing this? Who would they contact to shut the thing down? there is no leader...... I think if anyone planned on shutting the thing down it would have happened last year when someone was murdered there. The police come down regularly watch and enjoy, we have never had a problem with them..... Who are the parks and rec people complaining to??????? or is it going down because some upset people came to them with complaints and advice?????

"I still think this is something the fire community needs to come together on and I welcome all view points"
that came out kinda weird.
I personally think more voices need to be heard on this, I personally would LOVE to see the fire community come together to get the PDX Fire Jam back... with more voices and more help.
Do I dare ask for another meeting?

Enforce? With what? How?

We aren't the cops or even safety nazis. We had no power or authority other than our wish that the safety procedures we modeled would be picked up by other spinners, and become normal behavior.

We came on heavy with the signs and flags and cones so that they would be noticed. The intent was eventually to ease up on all that, keeping only the minimal signage and safety junk needed to keep people mindful of the basics.

It was beginning to happen.

Another six weeks and it might have developed into a self-regulating community. But that would have meant putting in 6 hours or more every Sunday for ten weeks, from each of the five or six of us who were willing to try. Don't know if we could have kept it up.

There were three or four people interested enough to tentatively join us. The rest, like you, couldn't find or make the time. Too bad. Not surprising, but too bad.

You work for what you love or you lose it. Sometimes you lose it anyway, but without trying you always lose it.

We're not entirely sure what Parks or the Fire Dept will do next. They may block off the area. They may cite people for open beer cans. They may enforce the No Open Flame rules that have been in effect for the last two years. They may demand the drummers get a noise permit, pay an event fee, and get insurance for every evening they're there. They may do something entirely different. What we do know is that the safety crew, us, won't be setting up shop there forthe foreseeable future.

The community had a choice between what we offered, and what Parks and Fire will offer. I don't know if they'll have that choice again.

No, in this case the parks department was alerted as a result of a fire department call that came from absolutely inappropriate fire performance behavior.