The morning sun rises red over a cliff above Mill Creek Sunday morning, colored by heavy smoke from the fire near Cascade Locks.
Mark GibsonUPDATE: Cascade Locks, Ore.-
The Emergency Operations Center has set up an emergency hotline for information on hikers. Staff will have names of hikers who have reached the search and rescue teams and are in transit to the reunification site. Families of loved ones can call 541-387-6911.
HOOD RIVER (AP) — The Latest on the Oregon hikers awaiting rescue due to the growing wildfires (all times local):
Crews from Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue in The Dalles and Dallesport Fire responded Sunday morning to provide mutual aide.
10:45 a.m.
Officials say six hikers have been rescued after more than 100 were trapped overnight between two wildfires on an Oregon trail.
The Hood River County Sheriff's Office says family and friends can reunite with the hikers at the Eagle Creek Fish Hatchery.
The Mountain Wave Search and Rescue team says they have buses ready to pick up the hikers when they come out.
About 130 homes in Cascade Locks were under evacuation orders because of the wildfire, which has grown to almost 5 square miles (13 square kilometers).
A Red Cross shelter was set up at the Skamania County Fairgrounds, across the Columbia River in Stevenson, Washington.
8:50 a.m.
More than 100 hikers in Oregon are awaiting rescue after they were forced to shelter in place on a popular trail about 90 miles (144 kilometers) east of Portland because of wildfires.
The Oregonian/OregonLive (http://bit.ly/2ezDZJY ) reported the hikers were still awaiting rescue early Sunday morning as the fire near Eagle Creek Trail grows.
About 140 hikers were forced to spend the night outside near Tunnel Falls after a fire broke out near the Columbia River Gorge trail.
Mountain Wave Search and Rescue president Russ Gubele says search-and rescue-teams will walk the hikers out toward Wahtum Lake once it gets light.
He says 14 hikers were brought out and returned to Eagle Creek and three hikers were rescued by National Guard helicopter.
Mountain Wave dropped supplies to the hikers.
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