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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 it's 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. In mid-September, a spark ignited at the top of Echo Mountain and Otis was set ablaze. Resident...

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 living in hotels as the holidays approach. Hundreds more are living with family, sleeping in outbuildin...