Parts of Oregon are already heading into wildfire season and given the serious season that Oregon, and other parts of the West Coast, experienced last year, Oregon’s Office of Emergency Management offers an important reminder about evacuation levels.
A Pacific Northwest legend is joining fire prevention activities statewide, particularly in the wildland urban interface and communities at greatest risk of wildfires and property loss.
Alert, concerned and conscientious neighbors assisted North Lincoln Fire & Rescue in extinguishing a fire Friday afternoon at an unoccupied house on North Deer Drive in Otis.
Seventeen students from Waldport and Taft high schools learned coveted skills and gained admiration for area firefighters after attending Future Natural Resource Leaders Fire School last week at Camp Tadmor.
North Lincoln Fire & Rescue responded to a car fire that engulfed the engine of a red Ford Escape in the Safeway parking lot in north Lincoln City late at approximately noon Friday.
Revised rules that protect air quality in areas of Oregon susceptible to smoke from controlled forest burns have gone into effect just as the spring burning season begins.
In 1998, NLFR calls numbered 1,154, but rose to more than 2,000 by 2012, a 54 percent increase. The call volume steadily increased from 2,153 alarms in 2016 to 2,371 alarms in 2017, a 10 percent increase.
