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Just outside the fire’s footprint, homeowners tap Mt. Adams Resource Stewards to light a prescribed burn

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Oregon’s statewide 2025 fire season officially wrapped Friday with significantly fewer acres burned at a lower cost to the state than in previous years. But fires this year got much closer to communities, state fire officials said, burning  200 homes and structures. Many of those were in the Flat and Rowena fires near Sisters and […]

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One of these grants, the Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG), is a reimbursement grant that the state applies for and disperses out to counties to be spent on emergency preparation efforts. 

In 2019, House Bill 5050 added funds to OSU Extension’s budget for fire resistance and resilience. The program’s $1 million annual budget supports six regional fire specialists with expertise in topics like fire ecology, rangeland management, home hardening and prescribed fire.

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HOOD RIVER — Superintendent Bill Newton touched on several topics in his report to Hood River County School District’s (HRCSD) board of direct…

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