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July 12 2021 More than 800 people sought help from heat-related medical issues; heat wave added to 18 months of catastrophes. Extreme weather like the deadly heat wave that hit Oregon at the end of June are a sign of things to come, state officials said Monday, July 12. The National Weather Service has reported temperatures in the last week of June obliterated all-time heat records: 101 in Astoria, 109 in Bend, 112 in Redmond, 116 in Portland, 117 in Salem and 118 in Hermiston. Other cities "only" tied their hottest marks: Pendleton at 113 and Medford at 115. The thermometer readings we...

Burnout operations on the Jack Fire near Dry Creek.  Photo from 7/9/2021 Credit Jack Fire The fire is estimated to be 4,000 acres in size and is located near Culver, where there are Level 3 evacuations in place. The fire northeast of Sisters is also threatening structures in Jefferson and Deschutes Counties. The Office of the State Fire Marshal Red Incident Management Team will assume unified command with the Oregon Department of Forestry, and will work to bring resources from counties around Oregon to assist in the response. Task forces from Benton, Linn, and Lane Counties that were previou...

Crews make significant progress fighting Jack Fire The fire is threatening the Dry Creek area east of Glide. Posted: Jul 12, 2021 6:09 PM Updated: Jul 12, 2021 7:46 PM Posted By: KEZI Staff 6 Images DRY CREEK, Ore. -- The Jack Fire has grown to nearly 12,500 acres on Monday and is still 10% contained. Officials said they made significant progress over the weekend and feel confident about securing the area. MORE INFO “Firefighters have been doing a great job particularly in areas up north of Highway 138. They have completed containment lines and completed areas of burnt fuel and created p...

Over 50 large fires are burning in 10 states across the western US. Here's how they stack in history. Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT Fifty-two large fires are currently burning 748,987 acres in the western United States, with many showing very little sign of containment.  The number of fires that have burned nationally by this time of year is the largest in a decade, with over 33,000 fires scorching upwards of 1.9 million acres by July 12, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. The fires have forced evacuations in numerous areas amid a deadly ...

Jason Pettigrew Originally published on July 12, 2021 3:47 pm Eight large fires are burning across Oregon and Washington, prompting evacuations in Southern and Central Oregon, and blanketing much of the southeastern corner of the state in smoke. In Oregon, the Jack Fire east of Glide had grown to more than 10,000 acres and was 10% contained as of midday Monday. The Grandview Fire north of Sisters, which sparked Sunday, quickly grew to 4,000 acres, with zero containment. Evacuations are in place for both, as well as for the massive south-central Oregon Bootleg Fire, the largest in the stat...