Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act late Monday in response to the 36 Pit Fire burning near Estacada.
Smoke from the 36 Pit Fire is making it's way into the mid-Willamette Valley this afternoon.
Marion County Fire District #1 will be holding an Open House for the public tonight at Station 1, 300 Cordon Road NE, beginning at 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
A improperly disposed of cigarette is to blame for a three alarm house fire in Salem last week, Salem Fire Marshal Laird Case told Salem News Journal.
A single-wide manufactured home was gutted late Friday night in northeast Salem, and has left a family of six homeless.
A manufactured home in Mehama was destroyed by a fire on Thursday.
Warming temperatures and less wind in the coming weekend, fire danger remains high with red flag warnings in effect for most of western Oregon.
Thursday afternoon at 2:34 p.m., Portland Firefighters were called to a wildfire on SW Capitol Hwy between Terwilliger and Barbur.
Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue firefighters were dispatched to an original report of a grass fire on 14500 block of SW 148th Place in Tigard on Thursday.
Arson Investigators from the Portland Police Bureau and Portland Fire and Rescue, have arrested four juveniles in connection with several fires this summer in southeast Portland's Kenilworth Park.