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A vegetation fire south of Eugene closed Highway 99 and brought level 1 evacuation warnings near Ricketts and Hampton on Monday. The blaze originally led to a level 2 evacuation warning, meaning ...
The 2021 Oregon wildfire season began in May 2021. [2] More than 1,000 fires had burned at least 518,303 acres (209,750 ha) across the state as of July 21, 2021. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] As of August 1, it was expected that the fires might not be contained for months.
The Eagle Creek Fire was a destructive wildfire in the Columbia River Gorge, largely in the U.S. state of Oregon, with smaller spot-fires in Washington. The fire was started on September 2, 2017, by a 15-year-old boy igniting fireworks during a burn ban. [2][4] The fire burned 50,000 acres, [5] and burned for three months, before being declared ...
The Salt Creek Fire in Southern Oregon has grown to 3,300 acres. ... according to a news release from Central Oregon Fire Information. ... The Shelly Fire, burning about 250 miles south of Eugene ...
The 2020 Oregon wildfire season was the most destructive on record in the state of Oregon. The season is a part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season. The fires killed at least 11 people, burned more than 1,000,000 acres (400,000 ha) of land, and destroyed thousands of homes. [2]
A Wilco Farm store near West 11th and Danebo Ave. is open to the public after an early morning "suspicious" fire on Wednesday. According to the Eugene-Springfield Fire Department, a commercial ...
UPDATE, 7:45 p.m. The evacuations that had warned residents in the area of Green Hill Road south of the Eugene airport late Monday were downgraded to “Level 1” shortly after 7:30 p.m.
On September 26, 1992, Hattie Mae Cohens and Brian Mock were killed by a firebomb attack at their apartment in Salem, Oregon. As Cohens was a lesbian, and Mock was gay, the attack was seen by the Salem LGBT community as motivated by homophobia which had been encouraged by advocates of Ballot Measure 9.