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Baker County Sheriff: Volunteers, others 'running ragged' dealing with fires, evacuation notifications
Baker County Sheriff Travis Ash had to interrupt the interview to ask a question of his own. “What day is it? Thursday?” In fact it was Friday morning, July 26. But Ash’s confusion was well-earned. He had spent the previous night, extending into the first few hours of Friday, doing what so many other people have been doing in Baker County over the past two weeks. He was fighting a fire. The ...
Wyden, Merkley call on federal agencies to boost firefighting resources for Oregon
Oregon’s U.S. senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, on Thursday, July 25, sent a letter to two federal officials calling for more firefighting resources to be sent to Oregon, where several major wildfires are burning, including the state’s — and nation's — largest blaze, the 284,000-acre Durkee Fire in Baker and Malheur counties. Jeff Merkley Merkley Wyden and Merkley sent the letter to ...
News of Record for July 26, 2024
POLICE LOG Baker County Sheriff’s Office Arrests, citations RECKLESSLY ENDANGERING ANOTHER PERSON, FOURTH-DEGREE ASSAULT: Tyler Ray Dewey, 34, Baker City, 9:16 p.m. July 25 in the 1700 block of Valley Avenue; jailed. VIOLATION OF RESTRAINING ORDER: Dale Wade Kraft, 65, Baker City, 3:13 p.m. July 25 at the courthouse; jailed. Accident reports July 25: 8:42 a.m. in the 3600 block of 17th Street; ...
Storm batters Baker City with 66 mph winds, heavy rain
The cold front that ended Baker City’s most severe heat wave also spawned a thunderstorm with gale-force winds that caused power and internet outages and littered streets with fallen trees and limbs on Wednesday afternoon, July 24. “There (were) about four or five emergency response calls that we had,” City Manager Barry Murphy said. “We sent our public works team out to canvas the city.” ...
Weather turns from antagonist to ally for crews fighting Durkee Fire; blaze 20% contained
After playing the villain for a week, turning a single lightning bolt into the biggest wildfire in Oregon and the nation, the weather suddenly turned into an ally for firefighters. Thunderstorms spawned by a cold front that broke the worst heat wave in Baker County’s history doused most of the Durkee Fire with rain on Wednesday evening, July 24. A single storm can’t end a fire that has burned ...
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