Fire

People can protect themselves by avoiding it and keeping kids and pets away too.

A new wildfire that started over the weekend in Southwestern Oregon is threatening the small rural community of Agness. The fire has already grown more than 5,000 acres in less than two days.

This spring, a four-alarm fire inside downtown Portland’s May Apartments sent smoke billowing across the city and cost more than 100 people their homes. There were immediately rumors about how it started. The fire investigation unit knew it would have its hands full.

The evacuation orders apply to Boulder Lake campground, Bonney Meadow campground, Badger Lake campground, Camp Windy, Post Camp campgrounds and Little Boulder Lake.

A rapidly moving wildfire led to evacuations Sunday near Underwood, Washington, in the Columbia River Gorge.

The fire began early Wednesday morning and spread across several buildings in an industrial complex in Salmon Creek, where firefighters from three departments battled the blaze.

Portland police announced Thursday night they had arrested a person in connection with an apartment fire last week that sent many people fleeing for their lives.

A fire started inside a cement structure guarding the base of Portland’s Steel Bridge, which several people had been using as a living space.

You probably no longer blink an eye when an electric car passes by on the road. More novel battery-powered vehicles are soon joining the parade to help operators achieve their sustainability goals. Electric ferries are coming to Puget Sound and hybrid electric airplanes are being tested in Washington. Now, several Pacific Northwest fire departments have ordered their first electric fire trucks.

The fire started just before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday inside the former Portland Korean Church at Southwest 10th Avenue and Clay Street.