Echo Fire News Today

ECHO — A recent heated Facebook exchange escalated to suggestions from an Echo volunteer firefighter that emergency services could be withheld from two women she was arguing with over an

HERMISTON, Ore. - UPDATE SEPTEMBER 7, 2023. According to the Umatilla County Sheriffs Office, the Bensel fire is 100% contained.

HERMISTON, Ore. -UPDATE. SEPTEMBER 4, 2023, 7:37 p.m. According to Umatilla County Sheriffs Office, evacuation levels will remain in place overnight.

HERMISTON, Ore. - Crews are currently fighting a wildfire that started in the area of Bensel Road and US-395. Crews include Umatilla County Fire District 1, Umatilla Rural Fire Protection

HERMISTON, Ore. -UPDATE. SEPTEMBER, 4, 2023, 4:56 p.m. Umatilla County Sheriffs Office and firefighting command is aware of the flare up within heavy brush.

UMATILLA CO., Wash. - A wildfire south of Pendleton has been 100% contained and the active fire is out, according to the Umatilla County Sheriffs Office.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Douglas Gregory Edwards, 37, formerly of Berkeley, pleaded guilty Tuesday to setting fire to federal land in the Lake Tahoe area three years ago. On July 5, 2020, Edwards set three separate fires in the forest and near hiking trails - the Echo Fire, the Upper Fire, and Lake Fire.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - One man has been arrested in connection with three suspicious fires in the Echo Peak and Echo Lakes area on July 5, 2020. The fires, the Echo Fire, the Upper Fire, and the Lake Fire, appear to have been intentionally started.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Douglas Gregory Edwards, 37, formerly of Berkeley, pleaded guilty Tuesday to setting fire to federal land in the Lake Tahoe area three years ago. On July 5, 2020, Edwards set three separate fires in the forest and near hiking trails - the Echo Fire, the Upper Fire, and Lake Fire.

He faces up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.