Fire

A ranching family in Oregon is applauding the arrest of the leader of a U.S. Forest Service crew that carried out a planned burn in a national forest that spread onto the family’s property.

The head of the U.S. Forest Service has denounced the arrest by an Oregon sheriff of a Forest Service employee after a planned burn in a national forest spread onto private land.

Authorities say an explosion and fire last week at the Columbia Hills Retirement Center in St. Helens, Oregon, that killed one person was a human-caused accident.

This year’s fire season has been the mildest year for Washington in a decade. But, the season isn’t over yet.

One person died and several were injured after an explosion at a retirement home in St. Helens Wednesday morning.

The fire shut down parts of Northeast Sandy Boulevard Saturday morning.

The Oregon Office of the State Fire Marshal has awarded $6 million in grants to local fire districts to hire firefighting staff during the 2022 wildfire season.

Springfield police say the bodies of two people were found during an investigation into a large commercial fire on the city's Main Street.

A man was killed in a fiery explosion at a commercial building in southwestern Washington, according to the Clark County Fire Marshal’s Office.

Two weeks after a fire damaged a plant that produced chips and salty snacks in Northeast Oregon the company says it will lay off all of the site’s employees.