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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Crews stop blaze in ‘really bad place for a fire’
A wildfire in eastern Baker County that had major potential for rapid growth ended up fizzling early Monday ...
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Not Such A Big Bang
The Fourth of July is right around the corner, and fireworks are harder to come by than usual. ...
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Crews keep fires small
Lightning has sparked more than 20 wildfires in Northeastern Oregon this week, but crews, with an assist from ...
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Cameras keep an eye out for fires
Mountaintop cameras are the newest tool for finding wildfires, and unlike human lookouts, the cameras are on duty ...
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Black, Red, Green
Trevor Lewis is standing beside the black skeleton of what used to be a willow tree, and he ...