New wildfire breaks out near Bessie Butte, south of Bend
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…
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ODF’s Central Oregon District enters regulated-use closure on Wednesday
PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Forestry’s Central Oregon District will enter Regulated-Use Closure beginning at 12:01 a.m.…
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Fire near Columbia Gorge burns 15 acres, prompts Level 1 evacuation notice
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…
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Hwy. 97 driver swerves to avoid deer, crashes, sparks brush fire, power outage
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…
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Wildfire season heating up in Central Oregon
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…
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1,000-acre wildfire east of Madras reaches 60% containment
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,…
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As fireworks go on sale, C.O. fire officials urge caution, offer safety tips
The Fourth of July is less than two weeks away, and stands opened up on the High Desert Tuesday for customers to buy fireworks.…
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Fire destroys motor home on county land east of Redmond
A motor home was destroyed by a fire just east of Redmond Monday morning, one of several RVs that have burned in recent months on public lands…
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Oregon fireworks sales begin Tuesday; officials urge users to keep it legal, safe
The Office of State Fire Marshal, the Oregon Fire Service, natural resource agencies, Oregon licensed fireworks wholesalers and safety experts are…
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Barbecue sparks patio fire at NE Bend apartments
Residents used fire extinguishers to tackle a patio fire at a northeast Bend apartment complex Sunday night that spread from a barbecue, officials…
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Sprinkler stops NW Bend restaurant fire sparked by oil still in laundered rags
A northwest Bend restaurant’s bagged, laundered kitchen rags still had enough oil on them to spontaneously combust and spark a fire early Thursday…
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La Pine man charged with wielding 2 axes, entering burning shop to save cat
A La Pine towing company worker who kept going back into the burning business to look for a missing cat early Saturday morning interfered with…
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PacifiCorp to pay feds $3.4 million in settlement over 2018 S. Oregon wildfire
PacifiCorp has agreed to pay $3.4 million to settle federal allegations related to a 2018 Southern Oregon wildfire that officials claim was caused by…
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Fire destroys vacant Prineville mobile home; man held on reckless burning charge
A man was arrested Saturday evening on reckless burning and other charges after a fire destroyed a vacant mobile home in Prineville, also damaging…
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Homeowner’s weed burner sparks SW Bend brush fire
Firefighters extinguished a small brush fire in the front yard of a southwest Bend home Thursday afternoon that officials said was caused by a…
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Thunderstorms, lightning spark new, small C.O. fires
Saturday’s intense thunderstorms also hit the region with hundreds of lightning strikes, some of which sparked new, small wildfires tackled by…
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Lightning sparks several small C.O. fires; one grows to 120 acres near Chiloquin
While Central Oregon crews tackled several small lightning-sparked fires on Friday, a larger lightning-caused blaze had burned about 120 acres in a…
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Annual campfire restrictions begin Monday on BLM rivers in Central Oregon
Annual campfire restrictions will go into effect on Monday, June 1 on portions of the Deschutes, John Day, White and Crooked rivers, as well as on…
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In the wrong (hot) conditions, hand sanitizer in your car could catch fire
Under the right — make that wrong — conditions, that bottle of hand sanitizer sitting in your car just might catch fire.…
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FBI investigating ‘suspicious’ Warm Springs house fire that seriously injured 2
The FBI has joined the investigation into a house fire late Sunday night that seriously injured two Warm Springs men, a police investigator said…
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