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Difficult fire season strains relationship between forestry department, Eastern Oregon landowners
PENDLETON — At a board retreat Thursday, Oct. 17, in Pendleton, officials from the Oregon Department of Forestry ...
Wildfires
Durkee Fire: ‘For a while, it looked like the whole world might burn’
DURKEE, Ore. — Bert Siddoway heard the fire before he saw it, no seconds at all between the ...
Local
Prescribed fire spreads into Walla Walla’s watershed
WALLA WALLA — A prescribed fire intended to help protect the source of Walla Walla’s drinking water from ...
Local
Weather turns prescribed burn into wildfire 15 miles southeast of Walla Walla
WALLA WALLA — Officials fighting the prescribed fire-turned-wildfire 15 miles southeast of Walla Walla in the Mill Creek ...
Local
Conditions push prescribed fire into Walla Walla’s watershed
WALLA WALLA — Weather that was drier and windier than forecast caused a prescribed fire to burn beyond ...
Wildfires
Grant County tallies the damage from summer wildfires
JOHN DAY — It’s been a long, hot summer in Grant County. In July, a wave of wildfires ...
Wildfires
Nearly five months in, Oregon wildfire season expected to last into mid-October
Oregon’s forest and fire leaders were succinct in describing this year’s wildfire season to a group of Oregon ...
Wildfires
Nearly five months in, Oregon wildfire season expected to last into mid-October
SALEM — Oregon’s forest and fire leaders were succinct in describing this year’s wildfire season to a group ...
Local
Reward of $8,000 offered for information about July fires in Malheur County
VALE — The Oregon Cattlemen’s Association and the Bureau of Land Management’s Vale District are offering a reward ...
Local
‘This could have been much, much worse’: Grant County assesses the damage from July-August wildfires
CANYON CITY — Now that the wildfires burning in and around Grant County have died down, local emergency ...