BONANZA, Ore. (AP) — A wildfire that started over the weekend in southern Oregon has burned dozens of homes and caused area residents to lose 911 service and internet, state officials said Tuesday. The Oregon State Fire Marshal said preliminary damage assessments from the Golden Fire east of Klamath Falls showed that 43 residences near
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A good dog tag on the collar with a current phone number can be worth its weight in gold. That’s what one now-happy dog owner learned when a Central Oregon firefighting task force found their pooch while battling the Golden Fire in Klamath County.
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The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Lane Regional Air Protection Agency issued an air quality advisory Monday for parts of Central and Southern Oregon due to smoke from wildfires burning around the region and state.
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Bjorn Hedges drove around the two wind farms he manages the morning after a wildfire raced through. At many of the massive turbines he saw deer: does and fawns that had found refuge on gravel pads at the base of the towers, some of the only areas
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The Flat Fire that broke out near the southwest Oregon town of Agness just over a week ago has now burned more than 20,000 acres, as burnout operations by some of the more than 1,200 firefighters to slow its spread have also grown the human-caused fire.
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More than 120 people working to douse the 1,249-acre Simnasho Fire that broke out Friday on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation now have it 40% contained, officials said Monday morning.
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A wind-driven wildfire that broke out Friday in Klickitat County, Washington had grown to almost 52,000 acres by Sunday, prompting Level 3 evacuations as the flames threaten homes, livestock, crops and solar and wind farms.
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Central Oregon’s federal lands were moved from High to Extreme fire danger level on Saturday at 12:01 a.m., as new fires continue to occur around the region, the latest a small human-caused blaze in the Three Sisters Wilderness.
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The Red Cross Cascades Region said Thursday it’s on pace to open more wildfire evacuation shelters this summer, compared to last.
Continue ReadingThe Oregon Department of Forestry is reminding Oregonians to stay vigilant this fire season. Over the last several weeks, the agency says it has seen an uptick in human-caused wildfires.
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An interagency air and ground attack made fairly quick work of stopping a wind-fanned wildfire that burned nearly 500 acres south of Antelope in Wasco County Wednesday night, officials said.
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As of 12:01 a.m. Thursday, the Oregon Department of Forestry’s Central Oregon District has increased its fire danger level to “Extreme,” and new new fire precaution orders have been applied to all lands protected by the ODF’s Prineville and John Day Units.
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Bend Fire and Oregon Department of Forestry crews quickly tackled a wind-fanned brush fire along the Bend Parkway in northern Bend early Tuesday evening, stopping the human-caused blaze at about a third of an acre.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — U.S. Forest Service fire investigators said Tuesday they are seeking the public’s assistance with any tips or information pertinent to the start of the Boulder Fire on the Mt. Hood National Forest. Reported on July 8, the Boulder Fire broke out on the Mt. Hood National Forest’s Barlow Ranger District, about
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Nearly 350 firefighters had arrived by Monday on the Flat Fire that broke out Saturday southwest of Agness on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest and has burned nearly 5,500 acres.
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Firefighters on Sunday stopped at small size a wildfire on the Ochoco National Forest east of Prineville that was found to have started from an escaped campfire.
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Central Oregon firefighters continue to tackle small wildfires around the region amid hot, dry conditions, including one Saturday about two miles south of Sisters.
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Firefighters built a line Thursday around a small new wildfire spotted on the south side of Kelsey Butte, about six miles south of Bend, and later knocked down another small blaze off Skyliners Road west of town.
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Fire crews called to northeast Bend tackled a brush fire Thursday morning that officials said appeared to have been an abandoned or unattended campfire.
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The Deschutes National Forest, Crooked River National Grassland and Prineville BLM announced Thursday they are implementing public fire use restrictions starting on Saturday due to forecast high temperatures and decreased vegetation moisture levels, in order to reduce the occurrence of human-caused wildfires.
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