GRANT COUNTY, Ore. – A BLM-contracted single-engine air tanker assisting with fires near Seneca, Oregon crashed Thursday night, killing the pilot. That’s according to an update by KGW. The tanker was assisting on a lightning start near the Falls Fire ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – The Bureau of Land Management is temporarily closing BLM-managed lands around the Salt Creek Fire to keep community members and firefighters safe. More specifically, this closure includes BLM lands south of Butte Falls Highway, north of Highway ...
EAGLE POINT, Ore. – The Salt Creek Fire burning on both private and BLM land about 10 miles east of Eagle Point is now estimate at 1,500 acres. According to the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, firefighters working the fire made ...
JACKSON and JOSEPHINE COUNTIES, Ore. – With the weather continuing to warm and fire danger on the rise, the BLM is increasing public use restrictions. The Bureau of Land Management Medford District is restricting certain activities on BLM-managed lands in ...
JACKSON & JOSEPHINE COUNTIES, Ore. – The fire danger level is increasing to high on lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry beginning Monday at 12:01 a.m. This increase will impact 1.8 million acres of state, private, county and ...
JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. – The Upper Applegate Fire, burning on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest has stayed at 756 acres overnight and through Monday. In a Facebook post Monday, the Oregon Department of Forestry says the high humidity overnight helped ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – With the official start of fire season behind us, we are already seeing fires pop up. So what happens when a fire is close to or just over the California-Oregon border such as the Cod Fire in ...
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ore. – Fire season in Douglas County officially begins at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, meaning certain restrictions will be put in place. According to the Oregon Department of Forestry, these restrictions apply to all private, county, state, and ...
JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. – More than 30 firefighters will be working a prescribed burn in Josephine County on Friday. The BLM, Medford District in partnership with the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest are hosting the exercise as part of collaborative fire ...
PORTLAND, Ore. – As drier weather sets in and fire season approaches, the Bureau of Land Management is issuing its annual fire restrictions. The agency says the restrictions, which go into effect on May 24, are for all BLM public ...