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An evacuation shelter was established at Mt. Hood Community College. [1] The Columbia River itself was also closed to all marine traffic for 20 miles, [26] from mile marker 126 to 146. [27] The I-84 corridor from Troutdale, Oregon to Hood River, Oregon, continued to be an active evacuation zone as of September 12. [28]
Oregon follows a three-level evacuation notification system —Level 1 "Be Ready," level 2 "Be Set" and Level 3 "Go Now." For a Level 1 evacuation alert, people should be prepared to evacuate and ...
The Sheriff’s Office around 3 p.m. announced that zones 965A (north of Highway 162), 817 and 828 in Oroville were now under an evacuation warning rather than a mandatory order.
There were about 159 structures in the zones with mandatory evacuation orders, a Butte County sheriff’s evacuation map shows. Zones 866 and 869 were also briefly under evacuation warnings ...
The Durkee Fire was a wildfire burning in Baker and Malheur counties in eastern Oregon. As of August 7, 2024, [update] the fire burned 294,265 acres (1,190.85 km 2 ) and is 95 percent contained. The Durkee Fire was the second-largest wildfire in the United States and was the largest wildfire in Oregon's 2024 wildfire season .
The Bootleg Fire, named after the nearby Bootleg Spring, was a large wildfire that started near Beatty, Oregon, on July 6, 2021. Before being fully contained on August 15, 2021, it had burned 413,765 acres (167,445 ha; 1,674 km 2; 647 sq mi). [2] It is the third-largest fire in the history of Oregon since 1900.
The 2022 Oregon wildfire season was a series of wildfires burning in the U.S. state of Oregon. On August 28, 2022, Governor Kate Brown declared a statewide emergency because multiple wildfires, including the Rum Creek Fire. [1] [2] That same month, Governor Brown invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act because of the Miller Road/Dodge Fire. [3]
Tsunami signs line the roads of many coastal communities along the US West Coast. They mark any "tsunami hazard zone" and often point those in the area to evacuation routes leading them to higher ...