Firefighters on the Sisters Ranger District will continue pile burning in the Melvin Butte project area Wednesday. The piles are located about 9 miles south of Sisters, near Forest Road 16 in the Three Creeks area.
Continue ReadingThree American crew members from a Portland-based aviation company have died in Australia after an air tanker crashed in the state of New South Wales, where fires continue to burn out of control.
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A fire broke out in the bedroom of a southwest Prineville home on Wednesday, causing no injuries but displacing the resident and three dogs rescued from the home, officials said.
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A motor home being lived in on a NE Bend street was destroyed by fire Saturday night, but officials say the resident jumped out a window with his dog to escape and no one was injured.
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The family and neighbors of a 60-year-old Redmond woman who was killed with her dog in a weekend mobile home fire say they were sadly not surprised to learn her smoking sparked the blaze — or that she’d gone back in to try to save her beloved dog.
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A woman and her dog were killed early Sunday morning when fire destroyed their mobile home just south of Redmond. Authorities said the fire was determined to have been caused by careless smoking, and the woman had called 911 to report the fire.
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Authorities say a woman died in an early-morning house fire in Klamath Falls.
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A passing good Samaritan used a pickup and chain to pull a smoking car from a Culver home’s garage before it caught fire Wednesday evening, preventing any damage to the structure, officials said.
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Bend Fire & Rescue held a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house Thursday afternoon for its new northeast Bend fire station by Pilot Butte.
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A fire destroyed two fifth-wheel trailers and a log outbuilding in Alfalfa on Saturday, also igniting more than a dozen small explosions of numerous propane bottles and fuel containers on the property, an official said.
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The loss estimate was raised to $600,000 Wednesday from a Christmas Eve fire that destroyed an upstairs apartment in downtown Bend as officials said several businesses were hit hard by smoke damage, possibly losing all of their inventory.
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An ice house near Coos Bay caught fire and released ammonia that caused temporary evacuations Friday.
Continue ReadingFire managers are planning to ignite a prescribed understory burn next Tuesday and Wednesday on the Deschutes National Forest east of La Pine. Officials say prescribed burning will help maintain the Ponderosa pine ecosystem by reducing heavy accumulation of ground fuels and improving habitat for native plants and wildlife. The prescribed burn unit is 700
Continue ReadingIn a time of increasing wildfire activity, Oregon State University Extension Service said Friday it has implemented a new statewide fire program to help facilitate forest and range management plans, as well as create a healthy respect of fire through education and outreach efforts. The program, led by the OSU Forestry & Natural Resources Extension
Continue ReadingVolunteers from two Bend-area animal rescue groups climbed in a motor home Monday and drove down to Northern California to help rescue dogs in areas hit by the destructive Kincade Fire. The volunteers and the rescued animals arrived back in Central Oregon on Wednesday at Cascade Canine Rescue East and West. CCREW and Soft Paws
Continue ReadingContinued dry and windy conditions brought new fires to western Oregon Wednesday morning, adding to ongoing fire activity. Suppression efforts are continuing, with cooperators, industrial landowner partners and the Oregon Department of Forestry providing ground resources in several ODF districts. Two fires have grown in size due to continued east winds and difficult access: The
Continue ReadingFire managers on the Deschutes National Forest plan to ignite a prescribed understory burn near Crescent Wednesday. Officials said the burn will help restore and maintain the fire-adapted Ponderosa pine forest ecosystem. The units being burned are 23 acres in the Marsh project area. They are located approximately 12 miles west of Crescent and a
Continue ReadingA fire Tuesday evening destroyed part of a mixed-use building south of Sunriver that housed both a shop and a non-permitted residential unit, La Pine Fire Chief Mike Supkis said. La Pine Rural Fire Protection District firefighters responded around 7:30 p.m. to the 16900 block of Kasserman Drive on a report of a shop on
Continue ReadingFire managers plan to burn 10 acres of hand piles along the C.O.D. trail west of Bend this week. The unit lies within the West Bend project area. It is located along the C.O.D. trail near junction 20, about a half-mile east of the Cascade Lakes Welcome Station. The trail will remain open, but trail
Continue ReadingThe approach of the holiday season and the onset of cold weather brings more indoor activities, especially cooking. Bend Fire and Rescue has noted an uptick of “Food on a stove” incidents, where someone was cooking food and left the stove unattended, causing the contents of the pan to start smoking, setting off the smoke
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