UPDATE, 1:40 p.m.: " When firefighters were able to make access, they found an attended campfire and no further action was ...

(KTVZ) – The Oregon Department of Forestry’s Central Oregon District announced it will terminate regulated-use closure at 12:01 a.m., Wednesday, but added that fire season remains in effect ...

Mike Shaw, who until recently served as the Oregon Department of Forestry’s second-in-command ... A tractor drags a cut tree away from the Bootleg Fire containment line near Bly, Oregon ...

"The Department of Forestry is charged with protecting about 16 million acres of public and private forestland and serves as Oregon’s largest fire department," The local journalist Noelle ...

Lower temperatures and increased rain have caused the fire danger level to be lowered to "low" in Jackson, Josephine and ...

Oregon Department of Forestry's Central Oregon District canceled its regulated-use closure Oct. 16, 2024, but fire season ...

“They’re dumping retardant on it in the hopes that will create a fire break that will protect the town of Cascade Locks,” said Pawlitz. Firefighters with the Oregon Department of ...

"We are all glad to see it go," said ODF Forest Grove District Forester Mike Cafferata in an email sent Tuesday as the agency ...

Bert Siddoway heard the fire before he saw it, no seconds at all between the flash of lightning and the boom of thunder. The strike “shook the whole flipping town,” he said, and immedia ...

Faced with growing existential wildfire risk, utilities, governments and other bureaucracies are leaning on tech startups.

Four aerial firefighters have died, two have survived crashes and 7.6 million acres have burned so far this season.