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April Ehrlich / JPR NewsOregon state officials have announced that homes and businesses in eight counties will qualify for no-cost wildfire debris cleanup, including mobile home parks. -
Courtesy of Courtney BucoloHundreds of students in Talent and Phoenix lost their homes to the Almeda Fire this September, just a week before school was supposed to start. Now some of them are showing signs of extreme stress and anxiety, causing school leaders and parents to consider resuming in-person classes again.
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State and federal agencies are working with local governments and homeowners to clean up hazardous waste in the rubble of this year's destructive wildfire season.
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The historic wildfires in 2020 left many people frustrated that they didn’t receive local emergency alerts when fires were burning in their own communities. Jenny Demaris is the emergency manager in Lincoln County. JPR’s Erik Neumann spoke with Demaris about her advocacy for an overall statewide emergency notification system.
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The Almeda Fire burned 18 mobile home parks in Jackson County. But some homes survived. Now, residents are moving back in.
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The idea, dubbed Project Turnkey, would offer up $65 million to turn distressed hotels and motels into shelters.
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The so-called BAER teams are assigned to evaluate damage in the Klamath and Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests, along the Oregon-California border.
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The systems that warn people about evacuations have dangerous drawbacks. Millions of Californians are relying on alerts that may never arrive. In some counties, only 1% of adults are signed up.
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Oregonians in Jackson, Linn and Marion counties who lost their homes to wildfire could receive federal housing assistance in the coming weeks.
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Jackson County has laid out a multi-phase plan to restore and improve the Greenway after large swathes of the riparian corridor from Ashland to Medford were burned in the Almeda Fire.
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The cost of hiring a professional to clean a property destroyed by wildfire can be as high as $150,000. But if property owners wait long enough, it could be free.
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Nine have died, and law enforcement officials say that number is unlikely to rise.
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Gov. Kate Brown described the scene after visiting a burn in Southern Oregon and expressed hope for more progress moving forward.
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Governor Kate Brown came to the Rogue Valley Monday to get a first-hand look at the devastation caused by the Almeda Fire. After her tour of the damage in Phoenix and Talent, the governor spoke via cell phone with JPR’s Liam Moriarty about what she saw and what the state government can do to help.
