Quick response by firefighters, backed up by 3,000 feet of fire hose, quelled a fire that broke out at about 8 p.m. Wednesday night at a home off Post Canyon Road, the second house fire in Hood River in less than a week.

A power pole caught fire on Guignard Road Monday but utility and fire crews teamed up to choke the flare-up in less than an hour.

A firefighter with West Side Fire Department hoses down hotspots at a one-eighth acre pasture fire in south Hood River Monday evening.

Heralding the official start of fire season, a handful of large wildfires have burned in the Gorge since July 4.