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Firefighters report good progress on several new wildfires around the High Desert

Firefighters report good progress on several new wildfires around the High Desert REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) Hundreds of firefighters were challenged by hot and dry conditions Thursday but were able to make good progress on the numerous fires burning in Central Oregon, several that broke out after Wednesday night s thunder and lightning. Here s the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center s 9 p.m. Thursday update: The largest fire in the area remains the Wrentham Market Fire, still currently estimated at 10,000 acres east of Dufur in Wasco County. It is now 38% contained. For more information on this fire, visit: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7589/

Fire crews head into hot holiday weekend battling several blazes across Central Oregon

Pamplin Media Group - 1946: Ochoco Grade School classes finally begin

March 7, 1946 Fighting to save the lives of three Prineville residents stricken with botulism, state, county and U.S. Army officials cooperated this week to supply life-saving serum, and according to the attending physician, seemed to be winning their fight today. Prineville s new grade school, the Ochoco school at the western city limits, was put into operation Monday morning with about 350 pupils moving from the temporary quarters at the overcrowded Prineville grade school. R.H. McAtee, principal of the new school, reported an attendance of 347 Wednesday. While the school is not complete in all details, and the gymnasium wing has hardly been started, 11 classrooms were in use this week, with the pupils on a normal school day schedule for the first this school year. At the Prineville grade school, a double shift system was used to accommodate Ochoco grade school pupils, with half attending classes in the morning and the rest in the afternoon.

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We he s in specially formulated glasses to keep out the rays. especially children. oh, absolutely. and everybody outside in that totality range needs to wear these. even if you re not necessarily in the totality? if you re not in totality you definitely need them, because at any point the surface brightness of the sun is just so great that even a small fraction of that surface being visible and if you stare at it, you will be damaged. and the damaged for the rest of your life? unfortunately so. we ve spoke ton individuals who were 15, 16 years old, looked up and got problems the rest of their lives. standing by. i want to show viewers live pictures coming in now from big summit prairie, oregon right now. on the left, they re going to be experiencing totality and, what, roughly 20 minutes or so, and on the right, look at this. put it on the screen. blackwell, missouri. with totality in about an hour from now. quickly going back to cnn s chad myers to set the scene for view