DURKEE, Ore. (KTVZ) – Eastern Oregon’s 11-day-old lightning-sparked Durkee Fire, largest in the state so far this challenging fire season, has grown to more than 288,000 acres, but crews have brought ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Durkee Fire began with a lightning strike in Eastern Oregon on July 17, burning the sagebrush-covered hills near the community ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extreme summer heat and ongoing drought have created conditions in Oregon conducive to massive wildfires. As of Aug. 7, the Durkee ...

This will be the final update for the Durkee Fire unless the situation changes dramatically. The Southern Area Gold Team will transition the Durkee Fire back to the local units at 8 p.m. PDT. Incident ...

VALE — A faint smell of smoke permeated the air and orange, smoke-filtered sunlight fell on Vale Elementary School as most of the team that has managed the response to two massive wildfires in eastern ...

Durkee Fire crews worked Aug. 5 to increase their containment of the massive wildfire beyond 86%, maintain protection lines and set the stage for equipment redeployment and post-fire landscape ...

More than a million acres have burned so far in Oregon’s wildfire season. As August gets underway, here’s an overview of some active blazes. Firefighters are seeing some success in Eastern Oregon. The ...

BAKER COUNTY, Ore. — On Saturday, wildfires continued to burn across the United State, with the majority concentrated in Oregon, and the largest still the Durkee Fire. Officials say it’s near 290,000 ...

BAKER CITY — Amanda Bunch certainly hasn’t changed her mind about the devastation that Baker County’s biggest wildfire caused nearly two years ago. But she has seen ample evidence that the Durkee Fire ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Durkee Fire burning in Eastern Oregon continues to grow Friday after surpassing the size of Multnomah County overnight. The largest wildfire in the U.S. currently sits at ...

DURKEE, Ore. — Bert Siddoway heard the fire before he saw it, no seconds at all between the flash of lightning and the boom of thunder. The strike “shook the whole flipping town,” he said, and ...