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(September 22, 2014, 12:30 pm) SALEM, Ore. This is also a good time for anyone that owns or rents a building in a flood prone area to buy flood insurance.
Areas in Oregon downstream of wildfires are at greater risk for flooding this year, and the Oregon Office of Emergency Management, Oregon Deptartment of Land Conservation and Development, and FEMA are urging home and business owner in affected areas to purchase flood insurance.
(September 22, 2014, 11:30 am) ROSEBURG, Ore. For an undetermined reason the first motorcyclist lost control and struck a fog marker.
Oregon State Police is continuing their investigation into Sunday evening's motorcycle-involved traffic crash on Interstate 5 south of Roseburg that resulted in the death of a female adult passenger and injuries to two adult male operators.
(September 22, 2014, 9:33 am) PORTLAND, Ore. Portland police report that the young boy in this accident has died from his injuries.
A small child from Portland remains in critical condition Monday, after he fell from a second story window Sunday afternoon.
(September 22, 2014, 9:30 am) FOREST GROVE, Ore. As crews and other resources begin demobilizing, the team and local ODF fire staff are preparing a transition plan.
At this morning's 5:30 a.m. briefing, day Operations Section Chief Joe Hessel told the firefighters, "Monday's objective is to extinguish 100 percent of all smokes within 100 feet of the fire perimeter".
(September 22, 2014, 4:00 am) TILLAMOOK, Ore.
Fall Salmon have arrived on the north Oregon coast, and the fishing so far has been good to exceptional.
(September 21, 2014, 3:30 pm) VERNONIA, Ore. The missing 37-year-old man went hiking Saturday and was last heard from Sunday morning at 7:00 a.m.
Columbia County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue crews and volunteers are looking for a missing hiker southwest of Vernonia.
(September 21, 2014, 3:20 pm) ROSEBURG, Ore. This year, more than 100 deer have died in the Roseburg area with similar symptoms. Most of the deer were found in the Fisher Road area west of Roseburg or near Umpqua Community College.
Tests have confirmed that deer in the Roseburg area are dying from Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease, a disease that has not been seen in deer in this area of Oregon before.
(September 21, 2014, 3:15 pm) CORVALLIS, Ore.
Rewarding landowners for converting farmland into forest will be key to sequestering carbon and providing wildlife habitat, according to a new study by Oregon State University and collaborators.
(September 21, 2014, 1:21 pm) ESTACADA, Ore. On Sunday, the priority is to halt the progression of the fire to the west.
On Saturday as predicted, the 36 Pit Fire area was impacted with unfavorable firefighting weather. Firefighters were faced with a major wind event of high winds from the east gusting to 40 mph. Dry relative humidity and temperatures in the mid-80s also accompanied the winds.
(September 21, 2014, 7:00 am) MONMOUTH, Ore. The 8-year-old boy had been helping a family member when the accident occurred police said.
An 8-year-old boy is in critical condition at a Portland hospital after falling 20-25 feet through a hole in the floor of a barn style structure in rural Polk County.