DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ore. – Residents in the Camas Valley area may see smoke in the air Friday evening as firefighters conduct a controlled burn during a live fire training. Crews with the Camas Valley Rural Fire District are managing the ...
MERLIN, Ore. — Multiple fire agencies in the Rogue Valley are prepping for fire season with a variety of wildland exercises. The groups are using chainsaws and other tools to practice constructing “hand-lines,” which are used to stop fires from ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – Rural Metro Fire in Josephine County is scheduled to do a live fire training exercise on Saturday. The training often called Burn to Learn will be at a donated structure in the 4100 block of New Hope ...
KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. —Klamath County Fire District 1, is conducting live-fire training for its firefighters. It says the Burn to Learn event is the best type of training to prepare firefighters for a real fire. Wednesday’s training event is at ...
CENTRAL POINT, Ore. —Despite near-record heat, ODF used live-fire on Thursday, to get firefighters some active fire training, with the real thing. Firefighters not rushing to extinguish this fire, they started it themselves. 8 rookie ODF firefighters participated in the ...