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"At approximately 7:15 PM, air crews were able to contain the fire," authorities from the Salem Fire Department and Marion County Sheriff’s office said in a joint statement. Deputies were going ...
September 5, 2024 at 8:34 PM. A 1-acre wildfire was extinguished Thursday afternoon south of Salem on Riverside Drive, just north of Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge. The fire was reported at 2:03 ...
A burn ban was issued for the City of Salem due to the elevated fire danger, officials said in a news release. The ban is effective immediately until Wednesday at noon. "Conditions will be re ...
Parts of the West have also been in the grip of a heat wave, including record-breaking triple-digits temperatures, for days. A fire in the Columbia River Gorge that started late Monday forced urgent evacuations around the town of Mosier, Oregon, and the entire town of about 400 people was ordered to be ready to leave at a moment's notice on ...
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]
Zach Urness, Salem Statesman Journal. July 19, 2024 at 7:58 PM. At least 17 large wildfires and numerous small blazes were burning across Oregon on Friday, bringing evacuation orders in every part ...
On September 8, 2020, in Salem, Oregon, dark red skies as a result of smoke were visible beginning in the late morning. On September 9, 2020, San Francisco and Eureka, California were similarly affected, with dark orange skies reported. The cities of Phoenix and Talent in Oregon were substantially destroyed by the Almeda Drive Fire. State-wide ...
2020 Western U.S. wildfires. The Santiam Fire was a very large wildfire that burned in Marion, Jefferson, Linn, and Clackamas Counties, in northwest Oregon, United States. Having ignited in August 2020, the 402,274-acre (162,795 ha) fire ravaged multiple communities in northwestern Oregon, before it was fully contained on December 10, 2020.