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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.

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...

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...