(KTVZ) – The Oregon Department of Forestry’s Central Oregon District ... elevate the risk of fire ignition and increase fire behavior in wildland fuels. Fire managers regularly evaluate ...

Sarah Jakober is a U.S. Forest Service wildland firefighter who serves on the Grand Ronde Rappel Crew based in Grande, Oregon ...

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

Fire season on the North Coast officially ended at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday. Logging operations will no longer be subject to fire protection laws in forestlands in the Northwest Oregon Area, which ...

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 ...

Republicans are backing a proposal to scale back environmental regulations to “thin” forests while Democrats and ...

It’s already been a full 14 days since this incident base camp was erected at the rodeo grounds in Francis. Originally headquarters, the crude tent city is now considered a spike camp since a larger ...

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

In a release explaining her support of the bill, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a Republican representing Oregon’s 5th ...

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 ...