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GILLIAN FLACCUS and ZACH URNESS Associated Press and Statesman Journal View Comments OTIS — Wildfire smoke was thick when Tye and Melynda Small went to bed on Labor Day, but they werent too concerned. After all, they live in a part of Oregon where ferns grow from tree trunks and rainfall averages more than 6 feet a year. But just after midnight, a neighbor awakened them as towering flames, pushed by gusting winds, bore down. The Smalls and their four children fled, leaving behind 26 pet chi...

OTIS, Ore. — Wildfire smoke was thick when Tye and Melynda Small went to bed on Labor Day, but they weren’t too concerned. After all, they live in a part of Oregon where ferns grow from tree trunks and rainfall averages more than six feet (1.8 meters) a year. But just after midnight, a neighbor awakened them as towering flames, pushed by gusting winds, bore down. The Smalls and their four children fled, leaving behind 26 pet chickens, two goldfish and a duck named Gerard as wind whipped th...

Otis couple helping others rebuild after losing their own home in wildfire The Smalls have helped neighbors remove over a million pounds of debris since last years Echo Mountain Fire. The work isnt done, but new homes are popping up. Author: Jon Goodwin Updated: 7:46 PM PDT April 19, 2021 OTIS, Oregon — Standing where her dad’s house once stood in Otis, Teresa Ganong reflects on what the Echo Mountain Fire took from her family. It’s been seven months since ...

Credit Chris Lehman / KLCC FEMA says it’s opened a temporary housing site in Lincoln City. The manufactured housing will serve victims of the Echo Mountain Fire, which destroyed hundreds of homes last September. FEMA says so far 106 households have moved into similar units in fire-damaged counties around the state. The agency said a total of 264 families are currently qualified for the housing, but the number fluctuates as survivors sometimes find temporary or permanent housing on their own....

After Echo Mountain Complex Fire, Otis leads renewal with small hands and huge hearts Matthew Denis, Register-Guard Replay Video UP NEXT OTIS — Ignore the piles of twisted metal and hulking orange-red skeletons of former RVs, and a new visitor to  this coastal Lincoln County community may think its the site of a new suburban neighborhood. Three months ago, this town on the incline up Echo Mountain bore a striking resemblance to fire-bombed European cities at the end of WWII...

Heavy rainfall to sweep across Oregon, possible flooding at Coast and burned areas Zach Urness, Salem Statesman Journal © Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard A car splashed through a small lake of water on Willamette Street in Eugene, Ore. as a thunderstorm moves through the area Sept. 18, 2020. Heavy rain is expected to sweep across Oregon this weekend, bringing possible flooding in Coastal rivers and landslides in areas burned in the Labor Day fires.  The Willamette Valley...

Habitat for Humanity of Lincoln County (HFHLC) recently received a $20,000 emergency response grant from Habitat for Humanity International to help expedite fire debris removal from the Echo Mountain Fire complex in Lincoln City. This funding will be used in partnership with “Quarters for Corners,” a grassroots volunteer effort currently working on site. Three months after the Echo Mountain Complex fire destroyed more than 300 homes in the town of Otis, nearly 200 people are still liv...