Wildland Firefighters Foundation serves special role to help families
The Wildland Firefighters Foundation is a nonprofit that helps the families of firefighters who are killed or injured protecting our communities. It…
Continue ReadingThe Wildland Firefighters Foundation is a nonprofit that helps the families of firefighters who are killed or injured protecting our communities. It…
Continue ReadingRep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ore., visited La Pine Tuesday for a “focused tour” and discussions with worried La Pine residents and officials about public…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Humane Society says it helped rescue 19 dogs from a remote area in the path of the Larch Creek Fire, assisted by…
Continue ReadingA wildfire reported late Saturday afternoon near North Twin Lake, prompting the campground’s evacuation, has been fully contained at 11 acres, but…
Continue ReadingThe Oregon State Fire Marshal and the Oregon Department of Forestry announced Monday they are bringing in out-of-state firefighters and equipment to…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Governor Tina Kotek on Friday declared an extended state of emergency because of the imminent threat of wildfire, beginning…
Continue ReadingFire season is in full force, as several large blazes over the past two weeks have shown. But regular, ongoing efforts by the Bureau of Land…
Continue ReadingA vehicle fire along U.S. Highway 97 at Juniper Butte sparked a wind-fanned brush fire Wednesday afternoon that quickly grew to more than 600 acres,…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — The pilot of a helicopter that was responding to a small wildfire in central Idaho before crashing in the Sawtooth National…
Continue ReadingThe Oregon Department of Forestry has billed property owner James Verheyden almost $69,000 for the costs of fighting the March 2021 Bull Springs Fire…
Continue ReadingFirefighters working to secure lines in more record-breaking heat brought the now 4-day-old 458-acre McCaffery Fire east of Redmond Airport to 100%…
Continue ReadingSince June, there have been 100 human-caused wildfires on national forests and grasslands in Oregon and Washington, Forest Service officials said…
Continue ReadingBEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Beginning Saturday at 12:01 a.m., all lands managed by the Deschutes and Ochoco national forests and the Prineville District of…
Continue ReadingThe Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office shared this video of a “super scooper” plane drawing water out of Lake Billy Chinook to dump on the Juniper…
Continue ReadingJefferson County firefighters, joined by several other departments from around the region, rushed to stop and put out a string of three brush fires…
Continue ReadingThe National Weather Service in Pendleton issued a new red flag warning for much of the region for dry and unstable conditions bringing high fire…
Continue ReadingLAKECREEK, Ore. (KTVZ) – A new fire in southwest Oregon grew to an estimated 1,500 acres by Sunday night, but Oregon Department of Forestry…
Continue ReadingRedmond firefighters’ busy Fourth of July continued early Thursday evening, when a Ring doorbell camera caught a motorist pulling over and firing…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Temperatures spiking into the 100s? Check. Rapidly drying grasslands and forests? Check. Possible humidity of less than 20…
Continue ReadingCrews from three fire departments were sent to stop an unattended, escaped debris burn in Terrebonne that had Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies…
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