Fire at ethanol plant west of Portland prompts evacuations
Authorities say fire crews are battling a fire at an ethanol fuel facility west of Portland in Cornelius that has prompted evacuations.…
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Fire heavily damages Mtn. View HS baseball team building, but gear saved
A fire traced to a failed electric wall heater heavily damaged a small wooden building used as the locker and storage room for the Mountain View…
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Bend man charged with arson in 2019 Madras law office fire
A Bend man currently held at a regional jail in The Dalles has been indicted on two first-degree arson charges in a May 2019 fire that heavily…
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Homeowner dies in Three Rivers Recreation Area house fire
A 55-year-old homeowner and two of his three dogs died in a fire that destroyed their home Wednesday evening in the Three Rivers Recreation Area near…
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Fire causes $900,000 damage to Black Butte Ranch home
A neighbor who heard loud popping noises from an unoccupied house next door saw flames from his window and called in a stubborn fire Friday night…
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Barking dog alerts woman to trailer fire near Redmond, makes it out with infant
A barking service dog alerted a woman to a fire in her mobile home west of Redmond early Sunday morning and she managed to crawl out of the…
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Official: NE Bend apartment fire caused by smoking material left in ashtray
A fire damaged a northeast Bend apartment early Wednesday afternoon, apparently causing no injuries but prompting the evacuation of eight residents…
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Fire destroys home on Warm Springs Indian Reservation; residents escape unhurt
A fire Tuesday evening destroyed a home in the Sidwalter Flats neighborhood on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, but the residents escaped unhurt,…
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Garage fire spreads to La Pine-area home; firefighters round up, save various pets
A La Pine-area homeowner was injured when he tried to stop a garage fire from spreading into the home Wednesday evening, but fire crews were able to…
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Boy, 13, dies in Yamhill mobile home fire
Authorities say a 13-year-old boy has died in a mobile home fire in Yamhill, southwest of Portland.…
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Early-morning fire destroys barn northwest of Redmond
A barn was destroyed by a fire northwest of Redmond early Sunday morning, officials…
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Smoke alarm awakens NW Bend resident to attic fire in century-old home
A smoke alarm awakened a northwest Bend resident early Saturday to a fire in the attic of a small, more than century-old home, traced to a woodstove…
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Display freezer fire closes Bend’s Trader Joe’s for day of cleanup
A fire early Saturday morning in a display freezer at Bend’s Trader Joe’s caused about $10,000 in losses and spread smoke and odors through the…
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Heater sparks tent fire in southern Bend
Bend Deputy Fire Marshal Cindy Kettering says a heater sparked a tent fire off Mahogany Street in southern Bend late Friday morning. It may have been…
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Veteran who lost home to wildfire finds love with fellow evacuee at Redmond motel
It’s been more than four months since wildfires ravaged wide areas of Oregon, but some evacuees who lost everything are still calling Redmond’s Super…
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Early-morning Redmond motel room fire prompts evacuations
A fire that broke out early Thursday morning in a room of the Redmond Super 8 Motel was stopped from spreading by an automated sprinkler, but not…
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$40K fire at SW Bend home apparently sparked by failed lithium battery
The failure of a rechargeable lithium battery apparently sparked a garage fire early Tuesday that caused $40,000 in damage to a southwest Bend home…
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Construction begins on FEMA Mill City housing site for wildfire victims
Federal officials are starting to build a temporary housing site for residents in Linn and Marion counties who lost everything in the 2020 wildfires.…
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Fire destroys SE Prineville home; residents escape unharmed, but lose dog
A southeast Prineville home and several outbuildings were destroyed by a fire Saturday morning, but two occupants escaped unhurt. Firefighters were…
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Woman dies in Seaside house fire
A woman was killed in a two-alarm fire that engulfed a two-story home in Seaside on Friday, officials…
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