A wildfire in remote southwest Oregon almost quadrupled in size overnight Saturday, forcing evacuations and prompting the governor to invoke an…
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire prompted mandatory evacuations near Spokane, Washington, on Friday afternoon. The wildfire started…
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Gov. Kate Brown has ordered all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset next Monday, in honor and…
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon announced Thursday that Idaho Power Company, a Boise, Idaho-based…
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The Crescent Ranger District on the Deschutes National Forest is implementing an emergency closure order on Forest Service Road 6010, which provides…
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An abandoned, illegal campfire sparked a wildfire Sunday north of Walton Lake on the Ochoco National Forest that firefighters stopped at about three…
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Lake Chinook Fire & Rescue crews and other firefighters called in by the state on Saturday finished mopping up the 10 1/2 -acre Big Canyon Fire…
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After three weeks of work in rugged terrain and no official containment, firefighters on the nearly 6,500-acre Cedar Creek Fire have begun using…
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By Laura Studley and Zoe Sottile, CNN Officials have identified four people killed in the McKinney Fire in California as residents of the same…
Continue Reading By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Evacuations are in place ahead of a west-central Idaho wildfire that continues to grow despite…
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Just about anyone living in Oregon is probably familiar with the term ‘defensible space’. As the West has entered into a new…
Continue Reading SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A wildfire has closed part of a highway and prompted mandatory evacuations south of Spokane. The Washington State Patrol on…
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The nearly 3-week-old Cedar Creek Fire near Waldo Lake continues to grow amid warm, dry conditions, and unmanned aerial systems — drones — are…
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The Oregon Office of State Fire Marshal is hosting a series of town hall meetings, including five this week in Central Oregon, about the 2022 Oregon…
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Firefighters made good progress Tuesday on two new lightning-sparked wildfires spotted Monday evening on the Crescent Ranger District of the…
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“Frankly, our people have been kicking butt,” said the Oregon Department of Forestry’s Tim Holschbach, Deputy Chief of Policy and Planning for…
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A four-acre brush fire that Jefferson County Fire District crews put out north of Madras Saturday apparently rekindled in windy conditions early…
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While a few larger wildfires are being fought around the Northwest, some not far from Central Oregon, another small blaze was stopped at a half-acre…
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Insurance companies in Oregon did not use, and currently have no plans to use, the state’s controversial wildfire risk map in their decision-making,…
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While we’ve seen wildfires burn throughout Oregon and Washington this summer, especially in recent weeks, it’s been a more mild fire season than we…
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