A new wildfire broke out and quickly put up a billowing smoke column Sunday afternoon near Paulina Lake Road in the La Pine area, burning nearly 50 acres before crews in an intense air and ground attack got a line around it.
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Deschutes County commissioners voted Monday to impose public use restrictions on unprotected lands within the county and on all county-owned land, to help prevent human-caused wildfires.
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Just a few weeks into summer, Central Oregon has already seen a more aggressive fire season than in some past years. The U.S. Forest Service is encouraging you to help self-police campgrounds, to prevent the potential spread of human-caused fires.
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Southwest Bend residents used, water, extinguishers and rakes to tackle a small brushfire off Brookswood Boulevard Sunday morning before police and firefighters arrived on the scene.
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A fire burned intensely near Meadow Lakes Golf Course Saturday night, damaging a home, outbuilding and power pole, at a time when the city’s Fourth of July fireworks display was underway.
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A wind-fanned brush fire off Highway 20 east of Bend late Sunday afternoon, stopped at about two acres by firefighters from several agencies, was traced by investigators to improperly discarded cigarette butts, officials said.
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Central Oregon firefighters spent much of the holiday checking on and putting out abandoned campfires or other small blazes, while one to the north grew larger, but was stopped quickly.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials have updated the 2020 prohibitions regarding the use of fire-causing materials on BLM lands to include a ban on using metal targets throughout Oregon and Washington. This is in addition to the original prohibition of using fireworks, exploding targets, and tracer or incendiary devices. The
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A new wildfire broke out late Wednesday afternoon near Bessie Butte, south of Bend, and drew a quick attack in blustery winds, Central Oregon fire officials said.
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Forestry’s Central Oregon District will enter Regulated-Use Closure beginning at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. The closure is intended to restrict activities that could spark fires in dry wildland fuels. Lands included in this closure include private, municipal and state-owned lands protected by the Central Oregon District in the
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A wildfire that broke out Sunday afternoon near the Columbia River Gorge town of Rowena prompted a Level 1 pre-evacuation notice and closed a highway but was 40 percent contained by evening, officials said.
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A driver who swerved to avoid a deer crossing U.S. Highway 97 in southern Bend crashed and sparked a brushfire Sunday morning that closed the highway for a brief time and damaged some power equipment and utility poles, initial reports said.
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A brush fire broke out east of Highway 97 just north of Bend on Friday afternoon, closing the highway for a time until crews could get a handle on the blaze, initial reports indicated.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Forest Service officials are reminding all those headed out to public lands this Fourth of July weekend to leave fireworks at home and take other precautions to prevent wildfire. “National forest lands are a great place to celebrate, but please help us protect public lands this Independence Day and every day,” said
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Deschutes County Health Services encourages residents to prepare for wildfire season. With a fire-adapted landscape, it is important to prepare for smoke impacts and take steps to prevent wildfires.
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Firefighters made good progress and reached 60% containment Wednesday of a day-old, 1,000-acre fire on private land about 10 miles east of Madras, officials said.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Due to drying fuels and increasing potential for fire starts, beginning this Friday, at 12:01 a.m. the Deschutes National Forest is raising the Industrial Fire Precaution Level on the forest to a Level 2: Partial Hootowl. The change to IFPL Level 2 primarily affects commercial timber harvesters on the national forest;
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With a warm, dry spring and a hot summer forecast, the Forest Service and BLM in Central Oregon are implementing public use restrictions, starting Friday
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Firefighters extinguished a small brush fire in the front yard of a southwest Bend home Thursday afternoon that officials said was caused by a resident’s use of a weed burner — not allowed within the city limits.
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Saturday’s intense thunderstorms also hit the region with hundreds of lightning strikes, some of which sparked new, small wildfires tackled by crews.
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