Some Sisters-area residents had to flee their homes Sunday night as the Grandview Fire raced toward them, and more than a dozen spent the night at…
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A 54-acre wildfire that prompted a Level 1 evacuation alert for residents on the east side of La Pine was sparked by fuels igniting after firewood…
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Days of extreme fire behavior ratcheted upwards on a hot, dry and windy Saturday as the Bootleg Fire again doubled in size to nearly 144,000 acres,…
Continue ReadingFire crews on Saturday faced the fifth day in a row of extreme, intense fire behavior on the Bootleg Fire, which again nearly doubled in size to…
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A brush fire near a southeast Bend neighborhood was quickly stopped late Friday morning, but officials say it had potential to be…
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The wind- and heat-fanned Bootleg Fire continues to grow rapidly, to nearly 39,000 acres as of Friday morning, burning on the Fremont-Winema National…
Continue ReadingThe Bootleg Fire had exploded to to nearly 39,000 acres by Friday morning on the Fremont-Winema National Forest, about 11 miles northeast of the town…
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Officials say fireworks caused a deadly blaze July 4 at an apartment complex in Northeast Portland.…
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Authorities issued mandatory evacuations Tuesday due to a 1,500-acre wildfire east of Roseburg, while a new fire on the Fremont-Winema National…
Continue Reading Two people died and four were were injured early Sunday morning when fire burned through two apartment buildings in Northeast Portland, KGW…
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Firefighters remained busy Friday, tackling seven new fires, the largest of which was Incident 494, a five-acre fire off of Highway 20 near the…
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Record-breaking high temperatures in Central Oregon are forcing ranchers to shift into high gear to protect their animals from the heat — and quite…
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While many Oregonians were preparing to hit the road or relax over a long holiday weekend on Friday, hundreds of firefighters were spending the day…
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For the second time in a week, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act in order to get resources to a new fire burning in…
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Hundreds of firefighters were challenged by hot and dry conditions Thursday but were able to make good progress on the numerous fires burning in…
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A southwest Bend woman was at work early Thursday when a security app on her phone alerted her to a frightening scene — a fire in the driveway in…
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A man camping on Forest Service land west of Sisters was injured Thursday as he tried to put out an escaped cooking fire, then ran to get help and…
Continue Reading Thunderstorms that moved through Central Oregon Wednesday evening and early Thursday blanketed the landscape with hundreds of lightning strikes and…
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A new round of thunderstorms flashed through the High Desert Wednesday evening with dramatic skies and lightning peppering the region amid a fire…
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Gov. Kate Brown has declared a state of emergency due to the imminent threat of wildfires across Oregon, a danger underscored by Central Oregon fire…
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