(The Center Square) - Oregon Governor Tina Kotek invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act for the eighth time this year last week. Kotek invoked it on August 1, 2024, responding to the Telephone ...

GILLIAM COUNTY, Ore. (KPTV) - The Emergency Conflagration Act has been invoked for a fast-moving wildfire burning in three Oregon counties. The Lone Rock Fire, which first began July 13 about 10 ...

Oregon's Emergency Conflagration Act has been invoked again this wildfire season, this time for the Telephone Fire in Harney County and the Elk Lane Fire in Jefferson County.

IRONSIDE, Ore. (KTVZ) – While crews brought the 10-day-old 133,000-acre Cow Valley Fire to 78% containment, Gov. Tina Kotek invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act to send more state resources ...

Aug. 28—Oregon Gov. Kate Brown invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act after the Rum Creek Fire more than quadrupled in size, ballooning from 1,256 acres Friday morning to 4,700 acres Saturday.

Brown invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act. “The Conflagration Act is only used for fires that involve or threaten life and structures,” Oregon Office of State Fire Marshal says.

Gov. Tina Kotek invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act Tuesday for the Service Fire, which grew rapidly to 15,000 acres in Wheeler County southeast of Fossil. The fire, pushed by gusty winds and ...

MADRAS, Ore. (KATU) — Governor Tina Kotek has invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act for the Elk Lane Fire in Jefferson County. “The two task forces we pre-positioned in Central Oregon on ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The wildfire burning near Dufur has grown exponentially in the last 24 hours, leading Oregon Governor Kate Brown to enact the Emergency Conflagration Act.

Earlier this week, the governor invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act for the Wrentham Market Fire, also in Wasco County. The fire has covered an estimated 10,000 acres since it was first ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon Governor Tina Kotek invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act on Friday for two wildfires burning near Bend in Central Oregon. The Rail Ridge Fire in Grant and Crook ...

Kotek invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act for the Rail Ridge Fire in Crook and Grant counties and the Shoe Fly Fire in Wheeler County on Friday, September 6, according to a press release.