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Victim escapes camp trailer fire in Junction City
Sep 26, 2012 at 10:45 AM

JUNCTION CITY, Ore. - One person escaped a fire that destroyed a camper trailer Wednesday morning.

Fire crews responded to 28295 Meadowview Rd. at 7 a.m. and found the trailer in flames on the back of the property.

The fire...
Junction City

Victim escapes camp trailer fire in Junction City
Sep 26, 2012 at 10:14 AM
One person escaped a fire that destroyed a camper trailer Wednesday morning.

Colorado Springs in Oregon? 'Not a matter of if, it's a matter of when'
Jul 6, 2012 at 10:43 PM
Wildfires wiped out whole neighborhoods in Colorado. Could it happen here in the Pacific Northwest?

New space race: Private companies crowd behind SpaceX
May 23, 2012 at 12:12 PM
A privately built space capsule that's zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-profit space race.

'A wildfire on private property can have severe financial consequences'
Jul 1, 2011 at 7:34 AM
REDMOND, Ore. -  People who own forest property of any size, from a few acres to several hundreds, often don't know if their forest could survive a wildfire. Have they reduced enough ladder fuels to keep a fire from spreading up into the tree...
Corvallis, Oakridge

'No one wants our homes or forests to burn up'
Jun 30, 2011 at 2:44 PM
CORVALLIS, Ore. – As homes and cities expand closer to forests and wildlands across the American West, increasing wildfire threats have created an unlikely new phenomena – confidence in government. Recent studies show that people in neighborhoods...
Corvallis, Oakridge

'A wildfire on private property can have severe financial consequences'
Jun 30, 2011 at 2:42 PM
People who own forest property of any size, from a few acres to several hundreds, often don't know if their forest could survive a wildfire.

'No one wants our homes or forests to burn up'
Jun 30, 2011 at 2:14 PM
As homes and cities expand closer to forests and wildlands across the American West, increasing wildfire threats have created an unlikely new phenomena – confidence in government.

Wildfire threatening Los Alamos nuclear lab
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Jun 28, 2011 at 7:30 AM
Firefighters worked through the night and into Tuesday hoping to put out spot fires erupting ahead of a wildfire in the mountains above the northern New Mexico town that is home to a government nuclear laboratory.

Project aims to reduce wildfire risk near Oakridge
Aug 9, 2010 at 4:36 PM
From a press release In response to high fire risk and concerns expressed by local community members, the Middle Fork Ranger District has started a wildfire risk reduction project on 75 acres of National Forest land west of Oakridge along Highway 58...
Oakridge

Want your home in the woods to burn down? Don't read this story
Jul 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Each year, more and more Oregonians move to the woods. But along with that comes the real risk of fire. Welcome to what is known as the wildland urban-interface, fancy fire talk for where homes meet the forest.

Santa Barbara firefighters race against more winds
May 11, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Firefighters took advantage of cool, damp weather Monday as they rushed to wipe out the last remnants of a wildfire that destroyed dozens of homes, racing against an expected return of windy weather.

Fire starts in bark mulch pile
Jul 7, 2008 at 5:28 PM
Eugene Fire & EMS crews responded Monday afternoon to a Coburg Road apartment fire that apparently originated with a bark mulch pile heaped next to the structure.

Wet weather brings end to hot fire season
Oct 1, 2007 at 5:22 PM
The Oregon Department of Forestry announces Monday that fire season is officially thanks to the soggy wet weather

100 acre fire continues to burn
Sep 10, 2007 at 3:47 PM
Firefighters are still out in the Fern Ridge area, making sure the fire doesn't flare up again.