FREE NEWS: According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Thanksgiving Day has the highest number of home-cooking fire incidents across the nation, and residential fires are approximately three times more likely to occur on this day than on any other day of the year.
Oregonians may soon have greater input in how the next statewide budget seeks to mitigate natural disasters. Gov. Tina Kotek on Wednesday, along with Oregon State University’s Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and the University of Oregon’s Oregon Partnership for Disaster Resilience, launched the first of nine online public meetings of the “Statewide Resilience Forum,” […]
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem set expectations high in July. Well before her appearance at Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility last week, she had promised swift legal action against “anarchists” and “Antifa-affiliated groups” who allegedly circulated the names, pictures and addresses of ICE officers in the city. Citing flyers of agents’ personal information and […]
(The Center Square) – Los Angeles’ initial response to the fast-spreading Palisades Fire was hampered by communications breakdowns and problems with the Los Angeles City Fire Department leadership, according to the city’s after-action report.
FREE NEWS: A fire was called in to The Dalles at 9:05 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept 2, which quickly spread across farm fields and wildland terrain between Mill Creek and Cherry Heights. At one point, flames were so tall that people in Dallesport could see them from across the river.
The National Grange honored Lyle Grange President Charlie Deach on Wednesday for his quick action during the Burdoin Fire, which helped save the historic Columbia Grange Hall from destruction in July.