PHOENIX, Ore. – We’re learning more about one of the reported victims from the Almeda fire. Friends are calling him a hero. We’re told that one of the people who died in the fire, worked with others to evacuate a ...
PHOENIX, Ore. — Hundreds of Rogue Valley homeowners left with nothing after the Almeda Fire devastated the cities of Phoenix and Talent last Tuesday burning 2,800 structures and killing 3 people. Now, Jackson County leaders say the road to recovery ...
JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. – Nearly 3,000 structures burned in the Almeda Fire that swept through the communities of Talent and Phoenix last week. In the immediate aftermath of the fire, the Oregon State Fire Marshal estimated 600 structures were damaged ...
TALENT, Ore. – A local artist who was evacuated from her home in Talent last week, is keeping the memory of what the town looked like alive through her art. 21-year-old Alexandra Vanderlip is creating digital drawings of the ...
CENTRAL POINT, Ore. – Jackson County responded to questions about why it chose not to send out a mass county-wide ’emergency alert’ during the fatal Almeda fire. Commissioner Rick Dyer told NBC5, he’s been asking the same question. Last night, ...
JACKSON CO., Ore. – A local broadcaster, is calling out Jackson County for not using the Emergency Alert System during the several fires in our area over the last week. He says emergency responders and county commissioners failed to notify ...
JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. – The fire that devastated several Rogue Valley communities is now 70% contained. The Almeda Fire started on September 8 in north Ashland and spread north along the Bear Creek Greenway, destroying homes and business in Talent ...
TALENT, Ore. — Most people in the Talent-Phoenix areas evacuated their homes as the Almeda Fire raged through burning everything in its path. “There was fire all the way around us,” Talent resident, Alan Patton, said. “It was very intense. ...
MEDFORD, Ore. — A Medford church that helped survivors after the Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise, is now helping survivors from the Almeda Fire. The Medford Neighborhood Church met Friday night with the mayors of both Phoenix and ...
UPDATE September 12, 8:30 p.m. — The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office originally reported five confirmed deaths in the Almeda Fire scar. JCSO later corrected and said after further investigation, one was determined to not be human. MEDFORD, Ore. — Five ...