MEDFORD, Ore. — An increased risk of lightning storms has fire agencies on high alert this weekend. Not only is much of the region expecting lightning but temperatures are expected to heat up well over 100-degrees Sunday into early next ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – Two years ago, a lightning storm rolled through the area causing more than 100 fires throughout the region. Communities and wildlife were threatened, much of it from fires that started on July 15th. After a dry winter ...
MEDFORD, Ore. — A handful of firefighters have been sent to fight fires in Australia over the past month. Now, the country is asking for more help. Over nine million acres have been destroyed and millions of animals have been ...
APPLEGATE LAKE, Ore. – Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest has canceled its prescribed burns near Applegate Lake after conditions were determined to not be ideal. They planned to use a helitorch, a process of helicopters carrying a large drip torch. It ...
CENTRAL POINT, Ore. — With fall-like weather in the forecast, the Oregon Department of Forestry’s Southwest Oregon District has changed the fire danger level from extreme to high. “There’s just a lot of factors that go into that decision,” said ...
ROGUE RIVER-SISKIYOU NATIONAL FOREST, Ore. – Weather conditions are helping crews tackle a wildfire burning in the Sky Lakes Wilderness south of Crater Lake. Recent lightning strikes caused five small fires about 11 miles east of Prospect. Those fires combined ...
ROGUE RIVER-SISKIYOU NATIONAL FOREST, Ore. — Crews in the Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest are still working to get fire lines around the Gopher Fire. That fire is burning in the 2008 Middle Fork Fire scar in the Sky Lakes ...
ROGUE RIVER-SISKIYOU NATIONAL FOREST, Ore. – A fire burning in the Sky Lakes wilderness south of Crater Lake has grown to an estimated 200 acres. Recent lightning strikes caused five small fires about 13 miles east of Prospect. Those fires ...
MEDFORD, Ore – In preparation for the heat and potential lightning in the forecast, fire agencies in southern Oregon are bringing in extra help. So far fire season has started off slow, but with no rain in the forecast, firefighters are ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – The U.S. Forest Service is poised and at-the-ready to respond to any wildfires that may start as a result of predicted lightning activity this week. A request for nearly $250,000 was granted in a ramp-up of resources ...