After two weeks battling wildfires in Texas, a strike team sent by the Oregon Department of Forestry headed homeand were immediately replaced by a second team of Oregon firefighters, including two local firefighters based out of the Forest Grove District.
Fire crews from the Oregon Department of Forestry, including one local firefighter based out of the Forest Grove District, are still in Texas as of Monday, helping other fire agencies battle deadly wildfires that have wracked the state.
The Oregon Department of Forestry sent a strike team of 16 firefighters and five engines to Amarillo, Texas Friday to aid the state's firefighters as they grapple with massive wildfires, including one crew member who works out of the local Forest Grove District.
Fire danger in this corner of the state has lowered enough that the Oregon Department of Forestry plans to reduce the fire danger level for public use restrictions to moderate (blue) Tuesday morning in the Northwest Oregon Forest Protective Association (NWOFPA) region.
The Oregon Department of Forestry said fire danger would be raised to High (yellow) in the Northwest Oregon Forest Protective Association (NWOFPA) region Friday morning.
Firefighters from Forest Grove Fire & Rescue, Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue and several other agencies joined a task force to fight the Golden Fire burning in Oregon's Klamath County Sunday.
As the region barrels toward a 90 plus degree Independence Day, a local state forestry official said that five wildfires of note have already burned in the Northwest Oregon Forest Protective Association (NWOFPA) region.
