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Fatality at Punchbowl Falls reported
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Fatality at Punchbowl Falls reported

  • Hood River County Sheriff's Office media release
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Free news: At about 7:29 a.m. on Aug. 1, the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a deceased male in the Eagle Creek drainage near Cascade Locks. Another hiker reported the male fell approximately 50-80 feet from a cliff above Punchbowl Falls.

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Klickitat County to stripe Snowden Road, more

  • By Rodger Nichols, for Columbia Gorge News

Klickitat County Commissioners responded to a longstanding request to install edge striping on Snowden Road, but in order to do so in good conscience, they had to do others, as Klickitat County Engineer Seth Scarola told commissioners.

Vehicle fire

Vehicle fire

  • Lane V. Erickson
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Under hot, dry conditions, all types of motorized vehicles can ignite a wildfire.

Vehicle fires

Vehicle fires

  • Lane V. Erickson
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In the event of a vehicle fire, the first step is pulling safely off the road; the second is turning off the engine and exiting the car.

State Street crash
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State Street crash

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Hood River Police and Fire departments respond to a single-car accident shortly after 1 p.m. Jan. 22 on State Street just west of Sixth Street…

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Carson woman dies in crash near Lyle

  • By Kirby Neumann-Rea, Columbia Gorge News
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Five Carson residents survived a fatal single-car rollover accident near Lyle on Friday. The driver, Jamie Fox of Carson, was pronounced dead …