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Public Use Restrictions Go Into Effect 07/02/2015; No fires outside designated fire rings Due to increased fire danger levels, the Willamette National Forest will initiate the following public use restrictions, effective Thursday, July 2nd: - Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, or campfire, or stove fire, including a charcoal fire, except in campfire rings at posted, developed and designated recreation areas (see list below) and in Wilderness areas. Portable cooking stoves using liquefied or bottled fuel are still permissible in...
Vehicle CAMP CREEK: On Monday night at 3:38 am, the Lane County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a gunshot wound at the Riverview Market on Camp Creek Road in Springfield. Police said the victim was asleep in his vehicle outside the market when an unknown person reached through the open window of his car and discharged a firearm, that struck the victim. The man, unidentified by police at this time, was treated at the hospital and released. Video surveillance cameras show the involved truck at the market just prior to when police believe t...
Fire sign Moisture and instability that moved into the region last Friday generated thunderstorms that resulted in 789 strikes in Oregon according to the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center in Portland, Firefighters responded to numerous, mostly small, fires from that evening’s lightning storm. Most were either a single burning tree or were less than 1/2 acre in size. Approximately 20 smokes were reported at various locations throughout the Willamette National Forest and 12 fires were confirmed by a helicopter flying over the reported s...
