A little over a year ago, displaced Oregonians returned to their fire-stricken communities to begin repairing what was left of their homes, and to…
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A neighbor played a key role in stopping the spread of a fire Thursday that destroyed a small RV and threatened three other buildings on the property…
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Summer has turned to fall, officially, but there’s still plenty of work for firefighters to do on several large wildfires, some of which have been…
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A four-alarm fire destroyed a long-abandoned building in southeast Portland early Friday morning, but firefighters were able to protect nearby…
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As of last Friday, there have been 1,780 wildfires that have burned 802,415 acres in Oregon this year. Several drought and fire experts from Oregon…
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The weekend cooldown and rainy weather — up to three inches in places — assisted hundreds of firefighters still battling some large fires around…
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The KNP Complex Fire in California has reached a “small area” of the Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park, home to some of the world’s largest…
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A property owner burning weeds with a propane torch in southeast Bend was cited Wednesday after sparking a fire that grew to nearly a half-acre in…
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U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officers have a person in custody in connection with four human-caused fires discovered by a resident and…
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Nearly 800 firefighters reported a 6% containment figure Sunday night on the nearly week-old Cougar Peak Fire about 15 miles northwest of Lakeview…
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Thanks to a passer-by who spotted smoke, a family of five escaped unhurt, along with their two dogs, when a fire broke out Sunday afternoon on the…
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Nearly 700 firefighters called to battle the nearly 86,000-acre Cougar Peak Fire northwest of Lakeview welcomed the first significant rainfall in…
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A malfunctioning propane heater may have sparked a fire that destroyed a motor home early Saturday morning on a southeast Redmond street, an official…
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A shop was destroyed and a connected bus barn damaged by a fire that broke out Friday morning at the Three Sisters Adventist Christian School on…
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The Cougar Peak Fire about 15 miles northwest of Lakeview kept growing quickly Thursday until wetting rains slowed its progress early Friday, after…
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Wildfire smoke has continued to cast a haze across the High Desert off and on for weeks. Now, the smoke is not only hurting the air quality outside…
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A wildfire that prompted evacuation of about 20 homes in the Sun Forest Estates subdivision southeast of La Pine on Saturday afternoon apparently was…
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One year after wildfires tore across Oregon, two communities gathered on Labor Day to celebrate being together one year…
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A month-old group of wildfires on the Willamette National Forest that has been sending a thick stream of smoke into Central Oregon shows no sign of…
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For the second night in a row, a concert at the Les Schwab Amphitheater was scrubbed on Monday due to thick smoke from the region’s wildfires and…
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