BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District firefighters plan to resume prescribed burn operations a mile west of Bend near the Cascade Lakes Welcome Station on Monday. If conditions are favorable, ignitions will occur on up to 344 acres south of the Cascades Lakes Highway on the northwest side of Forest Service Road 41
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Firefighters on the Deschutes National Forest conducted hundreds of acres of prescribed burning Tuesday and plan to continue doing so on Wednesday in two areas, west of Bend near the Cascade Lakes Welcome Station and in the Metolius Basin north of Sisters.
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — If conditions remain favorable, fuels specialists on the Ochoco National Forest plan to conduct a 704-acre prescribed burn on Thursday along the northern and western borders of Big Summit Prairie. Ignitions are scheduled for two burn units, HEJ 8 and 14 (refer to attached map). HEJ 8 is located adjacent to Forest
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On Monday, after successful test fires, firefighters on the Deschutes National Forest began prescribed burn operations on the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District and the Sisters Ranger District.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Sisters and Crescent Ranger Districts plan to implement prescribed burning west of Camp Sherman and south of Crescent on Tuesday, if conditions are favorable. The Sisters Ranger District plans to conduct 52 acres of prescribed burning in the Metolius Basin near the junction of Forest Service Roads 1419 and 1216,
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Little Yamsay Fire, sparked by lightning, is now a prescribed burn operation CHEMULT, Ore. (KTVZ) – A human-caused wildfire near Hole in the Ground has been fully contained, officials said Sunday, while a lightning-sparked fire near Chemult that’s evolved into a larger prescribed burn operation has grown to about 4,800 acres. The 105-acre South Pasture
Continue ReadingFORT ROCK, Ore. (KTVZ) – While firefighters in Central Oregon mop up from prescribed burns across hundreds of acres this week, others are making good progress on containing a new human-caused fire near Hole in the Ground, about 60 miles southeast of Bend. Central Oregon Fire Management Service resources responded Friday to the South Pasture
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Some 700 acres were ignited on the High Desert on Thursday as prescribed burns ramp up ahead of wildfire season. You can track the latest info from Central Oregon fire officials at https://twitter.com/CentralORFire
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La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) – A fire heavily damaged a home in La Pine Wednesday night, but firefighters were able to stop its further spread, officials said. La Pine Rural Fire Protection District crews responded around 8:25 p.m. to the reported structure fire in the 52000 block of Wayside Loop. Crews arrived to find flames
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SUNRIVER, Ore. (KTVZ) — On Thursday, firefighters on the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District plan to conduct prescribed burn operations on up to 269 acres approximately one and a half miles west of Sunriver along Forest Service Road 41 near the access for Besson Day Use Area. Ignitions on the West Maintenance 5D Prescribed Burn are
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(Update: Details on Wyden amendment regarding prescribed burn agreement) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Starting Thursday, the Deschutes National Forest plans to implement a prescribed burn on up to 431 acres of private property west of Bend and approximately a half mile west of Shevlin Park along NW Shevlin Park Road and Johnson Road corridor. Ignitions
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — On Wednesday firefighters on the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District plan to conduct prescribed burn operations about 10 miles south of Bend and five miles east of Sunriver. If conditions are favorable, firefighters will ignite up to 201 acres east of Highway 97 near the Exit 153 interchange and directly north of
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(Update: Precipitation prompts cancellation of prescribed burn) SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Overnight precipitation has prompted the Sisters Ranger District to cancel a prescribed burn planned for Tuesday about two miles southwest of Sisters as part of an Agency Administrator Workshop hosted by the National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center (NIPFTC), a multi-agency training center based
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MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A report of a brush fire in a northeast Madras neighborhood early Saturday morning brought out fire crews who instead found and put out a blaze that caused an estimated $20,000 damage to an outbuilding on Lakeside Drive and its contents, officials said. Jefferson County Fire & EMS firefighters were dispatched
Continue Reading A 30-acre prescribed burn planned Friday on the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District six miles southwest of Bend near Aspen Day Use Area as part of a national training program has been canceled due to unfavorable conditions, officials said. They noted participants still would be onsite, participating in other training exercises.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — At least 15 Portland Police training vehicles were damaged or destroyed by an arsonist early Thursday, the agency said. Shortly before 2 a.m., Portland Police North Precinct was dispatched to assist Portland Fire & Rescue at the Portland Police Training Division, located in the 14900 block of Northeast Airport Way. When
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In an unusual sequence of events, a recent lightning-sparked fire southeast of Chemult in Klamath County is not only being allowed to burn, but expanded along with two prescribed burns in the area to mimic historic low-intensity fires, Fremont-Winema National Forest officials said Wednesday.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A smoke alarm awakened residents of a northeast Bend home early Wednesday morning, alerting them to a house fire that damaged a spare bedroom and was traced to woodstove ashes put in a combustible container outside the home the previous day. Bend Fire & Rescue crews were dispatched to the home
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) – On Wednesday, Sisters Ranger District firefighters plan to conduct up to 28 acres of prescribed burning on Sisters Area Fuels Reduction (SAFR) Unit 64 about three miles south of Sisters adjacent to Three Creek Lake Road (Forest Service Road 16), at the junction of Forest Service Road 16 and Forest Service
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Firefighters will be conducting a live fire training Tuesday a mile west of Bend, adjacent to Forest Service Road 4606 and north of Tumalo Creek as part of a training component of Central Oregon Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX). Ignitions are planned for around noon. There are no road or trail
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