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On the night of Sept. 7, 2020, downed power lines ignited a fire at the Gates School and former Beachie Creek Fire incident command team post.
An Oregon timber company has sued the U.S. Forest Service for $33 million for not putting out the 2020 Beachie Creek Fire before it turned into a raging inferno. ... The combination Santiam ...
[10] [14] Soon afterward, the Santiam Fire destroyed the city of Gates, and burned into Mill City and parts of Lyons during its westward spread, also threatening the cities of Sublimity, Stayton, and Salem. [9] [15] On September 10, incident command renamed the main component fires to Beachie Creek Fire and Lionshead Fire.
The 2020 Oregon wildfire season was the most destructive on record in the state of Oregon. The season is a part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season.The fires killed at least 11 people, burned more than 1,000,000 acres (400,000 ha) of land, and destroyed thousands of homes.
Merged into the Beachie Creek Fire and became the Santiam Fire on September 8. [138] Rattlesnake Tulare County, California: 8,419: August 16: December 18: Lightning sparked a slow-growing fire in inaccessible terrain. [139] Downey Creek Douglas County, Oregon: 2,570: August 16: December 31 [140] Jones Nevada County, California: 705: August 17 ...
Zach Urness has been an outdoors reporter in Oregon for 15 years and is host of the Explore Oregon Podcast. Urness is the author of “Best Hikes with Kids: Oregon” and “Hiking Southern Oregon.”
Images from Gates School and the former Beachie Creek Fire incident command post that was burned and forced to evacuate after new fires started on downed power lines in September 2020.
The 2020 Creek Fire was a very large wildfire in central California's Sierra National Forest, in Fresno and Madera counties. One of the most significant fires of California's record-setting 2020 wildfire season, it began on September 4, 2020, and burned 379,895 acres (153,738 ha) over several months until it was declared 100% contained on December 24, 2020.