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One Fire Boss firefighting aircraft arrived June 1 at the Columbia Gorge Regional Airport in Dallesport, and a second is due to arrive by July 1 where both will be based through the summer.
This will be the third year the Washington Department of Natural Resources has based the single-engine tanker aircraft in Dallesport for the summer fire season.
ASTORIA (AP) — Tethered tug escorts could provide added protection for oil tankers on the Columbia River if tanker traffic increases due to new marine terminals, a study commissioned by the Washington Legislature found.
A fishing boat set up to work with gillnets motors down the Columbia River in The Dalles as a tanker train, typically used to transport oil by rail, waits on a Burlington Northern Santa Fe side line near Dallesport for the eastbound Amtrak passenger train to pass.
A swift moving wildfire is burning east of The Dalles, and has threatened homes in the Moody Road area, west of the Deschutes River.
UPDATED WITH PHOTOS Mike Heiser, a resident of Mosier, had purchased some plants Friday and was just getting ready to put them in the ground around noon when he heard a big crash, the “whoof” of an explosion.
Fire tankers funded by Washington’s Department of Natural Resources began contract operations June 1, the official start of the fire watch season, and crews at the Mid-Columbia Regional Airport in Dallesport, above, worked through the logistics of loading the large single-engine tankers Wednesday afternoon.
Water is something none of us can live without. It can be easy to take for granted, but we can’t prosper as a community, or even make it though the day without it.
SEATTLE (AP) — Railroad crews have reopened tracks where an oil train derailed early Thursday in Seattle, but work continues on three damaged tanker cars.
