Fire managers on the Deschutes National Forest hope to take advantage of favorable conditions Wednesday to conduct multiple prescribed burns across the Bend-Fort Rock, Crescent and Sisters Ranger Districts. Ignitions for these prescribed burns will last one day.
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The Central Oregon Fire Management Service is partnering with local structural firefighting departments around Central Oregon to provide an immersive, scenario-based wildland firefighting program designed to illuminate firefighters’ understanding of wildland firefighting suppression tactics, mutual aid and the dynamics of interagency response in an emerging wildfire incident.
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Two of the engine bays at Bend Fire and Rescue Station No. 306 are actually a classroom right now for Bend Police.
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Investigators said Monday a burn barrel sparked a fire that destroyed an outbuilding Saturday night west of Terrebonne, setting off a large amount of ammunition and black powder stored inside, explosions that were heard by over a wide area and forced fire crews to take shelter for a time.
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Residents of two homes, in southeast Bend and south Deschutes County, were awakened by smoke detectors early Sunday morning – key to not just keeping exterior fires from causing more extensive damage to their homes, but allowing them to escape unharmed, authorities said.
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More than 20 homeowners in southern Bend gathered around Deschutes County Forester Ed Keith Friday morning near China Hat Road as he explained ways to protect their homes from a wildfire.
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The U.S. Forest Service and Beyond the Edge Rescue want to highlight the intense training advanced firefighters take to give them the knowledge needed to save lives during hazardous or remote medical emergencies that may occur during wildland fires.
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With the clearing of various campsites around Bend, several houseless people are congregating in less restricted areas, including U.S. Forest Service land near China Hat Road south of Bend.
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A fire in the Juniper Canyon area of Crook County Saturday evening put up a smoke plume visible for miles and destroyed several small structures and RVs, but firefighters kept it from spreading to the surrounding area, an official said.
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The bodies of two people were found during an investigation into a large commercial fire on Springfield’s Main Street early Friday morning, police said.
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Smoke alarms awakened a family of five early Thursday morning as a fire in their large shop complex was spreading into their home on Lazy River Drive north of La Pine.
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A 39-year-old Bend resident has been arrested on criminal mischief and reckless burning charges in connection with a fire caused by a space heater that damaged a city pump station and could have caused an outage or Deschutes River discharge if crews had not put it out in time.
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La Pine firefighters quickly stopped a fire in an unoccupied manufactured home Monday evening. It was the second house fire on the same street in three days, but an official said neither fire is considered suspicious at this time.
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After moving into his home in the Lost Tracks subdivision of Bend 6 months ago, Hari Khalsa had a scary experience last Tuesday morning.
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Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a small barn in Alfalfa Monday morning,
Continue Reading An outdoor camper’s propane heater sparked a fire that spread to a city sewer pump station in northwest Bend Sunday morning, but its concrete walls and fire crews’ efforts limited the damage, preventing any system outage or river discharge, a fire official said. Police were working to identify who was sleeping there.
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A legal ditch burn in northwest Redmond got away when winds picked up Thursday afternoon, causing a grass fire that raced across three acres of pasture land before fire crews could stop it, an official said.
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso, CNN A structure fire at an ExxonMobil refinery in Montana burned for more than three hours, officials said Sunday. “Last night, our Billings Refinery personnel responded to a fire at one of our units at approximately 9:50 p.m. The fire was reported out at about 1:15 a.m.,” ExxonMobil Operations Media Manager Julie
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Oregon Housing and Community Services said Wednesday it is looking for public input on what the priorities should be for spending $422 million in federal disaster recovery funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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A cooking fire that was not stopped by an extinguishing system caused about $9,000 damage Wednesday morning to the Westside Local restaurant on SW Fifth Street in Redmond, an official said.
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