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 the American Red Cross shelter at Sisters Middle School.
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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 cutting, officials said late Monday.
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Monday was a busy day for the Pet Evacuation Team as they set up at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds and Expo Center to house any animals displaced by the fast-growing Grandview Fire.
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Beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, July 13, Redmond Fire & Rescue will impose a ban on all recreational burning and follow the regulated use closures imposed by the Oregon Department of Forestry and public use restrictions imposed by the Central Oregon Fire Management Services in the Central Oregon District to help prevent human-caused wildfires.
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As fire season heats up, it’s even more important for Central Oregonians to get the latest alerts about wildfires and evacuation alerts and levels.
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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, racing across a dozen miles of terrain, forcing firefighters to safety zones and moving through Sycan Estates; authorities say structures have been lost.
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 nearly 144,000 acres as hot, dry, windy weather persisted on Fremont-Winema National Forest. It got so bad, firefighters had to move to safety zones, and residents who refused to leave were cited and could face arrest.
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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 catastrophic.
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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 Forest and private lands north of the towns of Sprague River and Beatty.
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 of Sprague River, after its growth prompted some Level 3 (GO NOW) evacuations Thursday.
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Beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, 10 Northwest fire agencies including Sisters-Camp Sherman, Cloverdale and Black Butte Ranch will impose a ban on all recreational burning, and follow the regulated-use closures imposed by the Oregon Department of Forestry and public use restrictions imposed by the Central Oregon Fire Management Services in the Central Oregon District to help prevent human-caused wildfires.
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The city of Bend announced Thursday it is extending the local state of emergency in response to extreme weather conditions through the end of August, including a ban on use of fireworks that helped quiet the city over the Fourth. Assistant City Manager Jon Skidmore, pointing to hinted to NewsChannel 21 similar restrictions on the use and possibly sale of fireworks could soon be adopted into permanent city code.
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With dry conditions expected to continue in Central Oregon and fire suppression resources already limited due to numerous wildfires in Oregon and Washington, the Prineville District Bureau of Land Management, the Deschutes National Forest and the Ochoco National Forest, including the Crooked River National Grassland, are implementing a total campfire restriction.
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Bend Fire & Rescue and the city of Bend announced Wednesday a new wildfire preparedness campaign to empower the community with tools to create defensible space around their home. Own Your Zone gives residents simple things they can do that will make a big difference to protect their home from the threat of wildfire.
Continue ReadingThe fiercely active Bootleg Fire more than tripled in size to 11,000 acres Wednesday on the Chiloquin Ranger District of the Fremont-Winema National Forest, burning on Fuego Mountain, about 11 miles northeast of the town of Sprague River.
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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 Forest quickly grew to 3,000 acres.
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Central Oregon firefighters have been kept busy over the holiday weekend, taking on new wildfires that continue to emerge in the wake of last week’s thunderstorms, while progress is made on larger, days-old blazes.
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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 Oregon Badlands. Crews also responded to two new starts Saturday morning, one east of Madras and a fire near Skyliner Road on the Deschutes National Forest.
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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 constructing and securing containment lines on at least eight active wildfires burning across Central Oregon.
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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 Wasco County.
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