A fire at a homeless encampment on private property in Adams County threatened homes and destroyed over a dozen vehicles on Sunday.
Officials with Adams County Fire District No. 5 say the blaze was reported at around 5:15 p.m. in the 2100 block of West Cunningham Road near Othello...
Wildfires have forced evacuations across Oregon this summer. And now, the state is making new software available that alerts residents to changes in evacuation levels. Ed Flick, director of the Oregon Office of Resilience and Emergency Management, says the software makes it easy to develop an evacuation map.
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Meanwhile firefighters were able to make major progress over the weekend in control the Black Canyon Fire which is now at 89% containment burning 9,211 acres.