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Don RyanOregon Gov. Tina Kotek has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff on Tuesday to honor Jesús Eduardo Olimpo Gutiérrez Toral, who died fighting the Austin Fire in Clackamas County. -
Courtesy Nate McDougal/Oregon Dept. of ForestryThe Emergency Conflagration Act was invoked for the 12th time so far this fire season, to get more firefighting resources to the Wright Springs Fire burning near Upper Klamath Lake.
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A tanker plane that disappeared in eastern Oregon while fighting one of the many wildfires spreading across several Western states has been found, and the pilot on board is dead, authorities said Friday. -
A public memorial was held Monday for Logan Taylor, a 25-year-old firefighter from Talent, Oregon who died earlier this month. -
A second wildland firefighter has been killed in Oregon this season. -
On July 9, 1953, two dozen exhausted firefighters, including 14 volunteer missionaries, were resting after helping control the Rattlesnake Fire in the…
