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

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

Firefighters quickly extinguished a slow-moving, five-acre grass fire that burned a harvested area in Linn County on Monday ...

Each year, the Oregon Department of Forestry responds to about 1,000 wildfires across the 16 million acres of land it protects. It investigates the cause of every fire, and if a person or group is ...

Oregon lawmakers are calling for a new way to pay for fighting wildfires after approving emergency funds for the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF ... unsustainable as fire costs have risen ...

Courtesy of Grant County Emergency Management The Oregon Department of Forestry ... about 2.5 times the amount budgeted for the forestry department and the State Fire Marshal’s Office for ...

“It just won’t quit is essentially where we’re at, and our folks are really tired,” Kyle Williams, deputy director of fire operations at the Oregon Department of Forestry, told the Senate Committee on ...

“It just won’t quit is essentially where we’re at, and our folks are really tired,” Kyle Williams, deputy director of fire operations at the Oregon Department of Forestry, told the Senate ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry needs emergency funding to pay ... ODF's deputy director for fire operations. "Just because the smoke wasn't present in our more populated areas doesn't mean ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – This week marked the 12 th deployment of 2024 for the Oregon Department of Forestry’s incident management teams, or IMTs —11 during fire season and one following the ...

On average, 620,000 acres burned each year this decade, according to Oregon Department of Forestry data. That said, reliable fire acreage ... use of gas-powered engines such as lawnmowers and ...