A fire early Thursday morning that destroyed El Sancho’s Taco Shop East on NE Dekalb Avenue, leaving behind more than $250,000 in damage and losses, was caused by improperly disposed ashes from outdoor cooking operations, Bend Fire & Rescue said.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A three-story northwest Bend home undergoing extensive remodeling sustained at least $1.5 million in damage from a challenging fire early Wednesday morning that was traced to an all-too-familiar cause: Oily rags used in staining work that were not put in a bucket of water and spontaneously combusted. A firefighter was injured
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Fire season is starting to ramp up in Central Oregon, as two larger blazes in recent days prove. And as usual, the vast majority are human-caused, officials said Wednesday.
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A stubborn, smoldering fire traced to cigarettes disposed of in a combustible container on the front deck destroyed a 104-year-old home in northwest Bend early Tuesday morning, but one resident awakened to the smell of smoke and all eight got out safely, officials said,
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Firefighters from Cloverdale and Redmond responded to a vehicle fire early Sunday on Highway 126 on the east grade of the Dry Canyon and found an area resident had started pouring water on it from a portable water tank and pump. Crews from the Cloverdale Rural Fire Protection District and Redmond Fire
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Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District firefighters have canceled Thursday’s planned 113-acre prescribed burn four miles southwest of Bend, saying changing weather conditions likely would have pushed the smoke into Central Oregon communities, rather than up and away from them.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – An electrical failure was the apparent cause of a fire north of Bend Monday morning that destroyed a small outbuilding being used as a residence and that drew power with an extension cord, an official said. Bend Fire & Rescue crews were dispatched at 9:12 a.m. to the reported fire along
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MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Jefferson County Fire & EMS crews responded Sunday morning to put out a haystack fire that was found to be to a large pile of 2- to 3-year-old hay bales that had spontaneously combusted. The report came in shortly after 7 a.m. in the area of South Adams Drive, Deputy Chief
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An escaped fire at a homeless camp by the southbound Bend Parkway brought out firefighters Wednesday afternoon after it was spotted by employees of a nearby business and tackled by workers and police with extinguishers. It put up tall, black smoke but thanks to their work did not damage the business or require closing the road.
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La Pine resident Blake Barrett and his wife, Keddah, were headed home from a stop at his parents’ house Sunday afternoon “to pick up a couple of things.” Within minutes, he was picking up something else – a brick – to smash open a locked window and rescue a dog from a burning, smoke-filled home.
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A La Pine man who survived a house fire that claimed his brother’s life talked with us Sunday about the tragedy and how he must start over again after losing everything.
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A La Pine man died in an overnight fire that destroyed his home and spread to nearby structures and vehicles, prompting explosions and the evacuation of neighbors as firefighters from five agencies battled the blaze. His brother awakened to the flames and escaped uninjured, but a dog also perished in the fire. Investigators said the fire’s cause “was not criminal in nature.”
Continue Reading Wind forecasts prompted Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District firefighters to cancel Friday’s planned ignitions on the 113-acre Big Eddy Prescribed Burn four miles west of Bend, south of the Cascade Lakes Welcome Station, adjacent to the east side of Forest Service 41 and west of the Deschutes River.
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MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Central Oregon’s outdoor debris burning season closes Saturday. That meant some with materials they wished to burn were doing so Friday – and in at least two locations along US Highway 97 in Jefferson County, gusty winds meant firefighters needed to help corral them. In both cases, people were “doing weed-burning
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Hundreds of acres were set on fire west of Bend Wednesday as the U.S. Forest Service offered reporters a first-hand look at this year’s stepped-up operation. Members of the media, along with public health officials, took part in a prescribed burn tour. “We’re trying to re-introduce fire so it can play its natural role in
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After a holiday break, the Deschutes National Forest resumed prescribed burning operations Wednesday in two locations totaling about 600 acres, four miles west of Bend and four miles northwest of Sisters along US Highway 20.
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A fire that broke out in a garage workbench caused about $50,000 damage to a home in the Cloverdale area Monday morning, also briefly shutting nearby U.S. Highway 20, but the residents awakened by a smoke alarm escaped unhurt. Cloverdale Rural Fire Protection District crews were alerted to the fire just
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Firefighters on the Deschutes National Forest are planning more prescribed burn operations Thursday on the Bend-Fort Rock and Crescent ranger districts east of Sunriver and south of Crescent. On the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District, firefighters are planning prescribed burn ignitions on up to 325 acres 15 miles south of Bend and
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) Firefighters on the Deschutes National Forest are planning prescribed burn operations Tuesday on the Bend-Fort Rock and Crescent ranger districts, east of Sunriver near Lava River Cave and south of Crescent. Firefighters on the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District are planning prescribed burn operations about 10 miles south of Bend, five miles east
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) – If conditions remain favorable, firefighters on the Sisters Ranger District plan to continue prescribed burning in the Metolius Basin directly east of Camp Sherman on Monday, the Deschutes National Forest said Saturday. The Sisters Ranger District plans to conduct 313 acres of prescribed burning in the Metolius Basin directly adjacent to
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