Wildfires
Rock Creek fire hasn’t grown
The Rock Creek fire in the Elkhorn Mountains about 13 miles northwest of Baker City is 75% contained,…
Wildfires
Work continues on fire in Elkhorns
An aerial armada that dumped thousands of gallons of fire retardant and water within several hours slowed a…
Wildfires
Crews trying to stop new blaze burning high in Elkhorn Mountains
Fire crews are trying to slow a new fire burning near the head of Rock Creek high in…
Local
Baker City man leading effort to stop nation’s biggest wildfire
Joe Hessel remembers when the Dooley Mountain fire, which burned 20,000 acres south of Baker City over several…
Local
‘90-Day August’
Noel Livingston slides the cursor across the charts on his computer screen and what he sees, lurking behind…
Wildfires
Crews douse 10-acre blaze near Huntington that might have been sparked by illegal use of fireworks
Firefighters from multiple agencies quickly doused a grass fire late Wednesday, July 21 near Huntington that might have…
Wildfires
Baker County avoids fires, but not smoke
Baker County has so far missed the big wildfires burning in Oregon and elsewhere in the West, but…
Local
Umatilla National Forest closed to public due to fire danger
PENDLETON, Ore. (July 16, 2021) – With persistent extreme hot and dry conditions, active large wildfires, limited firefighting…
Local
Cause of OTEC outage likely to remain a mystery
Charlie Tracy and a team of Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative employees spent much of Wednesday, July 7, trying…
Local
Firefighters stop blaze just south of Baker County line
A rare morning lightning storm touched off a wildfire in northern Malheur County on Wednesday morning that could…
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