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Water-dropping aircraft are a key part of efforts to fight wildfires. And with the 2025 season especially fiery, these pilots ...
A two-hour drive from Yakima to The Dalles, Oregon offers Greek pastries, stargazing, exotic animals, historic landmarks and ...
The Flat Fire, which started Thursday about 3 miles west of Lake Billy Chinook, has exploded to around 18,000 acres, is 0% contained and prompted a variety of evacuation levels in two counties..
Oregon’s tallest tree, a 326-foot Douglas fir east of Coquille in Coos County, has been on fire for two days, officials said.
With about 50 ft already lost, the fire may impact the Doerner Fir's standing in global height rankings, officials say.
The Doerner Fir is over 325 feet tall. Its top has been burning since Aug. 17, but lightning, the most obvious cause, has ...
Officials issued an air quality advisory as smoke from the Flat Fire reached unhealthy levels in multiple counties.
Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire burning in one of the world's tallest trees near the state's southern coast ...
One of the tallest and oldest trees in the world continues to burn in Oregon after it a fire was first reported Aug. 16.. But ...
The historic tree is alive, but it lost some of the record height that made it the tallest Douglas fir in the world.
In coastal Oregon, the state's tallest fir tree is burning. Douglas-firs (Pseudotsuga menziesii) are Oregon's most common trees, but the tree that's ablaze, known as the Doerner Fir, is special.
Murphy Ranch residents in Gila County have been ordered to evacuate their homes amid a wildfire that has burned more than 23,000 acres.