Been through Hell and High water but nothing like this, says a Vet (Updated)

FBI Portland -- "Reports that extremists are setting fires in Oregon are untrue."

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Shame, shame shame on those individuals who’ve tried to pawn the start of this disaster off on ethnic or political groups. We know What you are. Now we just need to haggle over your price, as Twain said.

High alert: Deadly Northwest fires burn hundreds of homes

First published 9 September 2020

As broadcast on KOIN TV News, interested people can help feed the dozens of evacuated horses that the Lake Oswego Hunt Club has given shelter to (including evacuated persons and companion animals).

“We do not have a context for this amount of fire on the landscape,” said Doug Grafe, Chief of Fire Protection at the Oregon Department of Forestry. “Seeing them run down the canyons the way they have – carrying tens of miles in one period of an afternoon and not slowing down in the evening – (there is) absolutely no context for that in this environment.”



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By Gillian Flaccus And Sara Cline, The Associated Press

ESTACADA, Ore. – Deadly windblown wildfires raging across the Pacific Northwest destroyed hundreds of homes in Oregon, the governor said Wednesday, warning it could be the greatest loss of life and property from wildfire in state history.

“GO Now!”

The blazes from the top of the state to the California border caused highway closures and smoky skies and had firefighers struggling to contain and douse flames fanned by 50 mph (80 kph) wind gusts. Officials in some western Oregon communities gave residents “go now” orders to evacuate, meaning they had minutes to flee their homes.

Fires were burning in a large swath of Washington state and Oregon that rarely experiences such intense wildfire activity because of the Pacific Northwest’s cool and wet climate.

Flames trapped firefighters and civilians behind fire lines in Oregon and levelled an entire small town in eastern Washington. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown warned that the devastation could be overwhelming from the fires that exploded Monday during a late-summer wind storm.

At least three people were killed in Oregon fires and a small child died in blazes in Washington state. Brown said some communities were substantially damaged, with “hundreds of homes lost.”

American Red Cross, Cascades

Another wildfire hit Lincoln City, on the Oregon coast, where residents were being evacuated to a community college to the south.

“The fire is in the city,” said Casey Miller, spokesman for Lincoln County Emergency Management. He said some buildings had been burned but had no details.

The department imposed mandatory evacuation for the northern half of the city of roughly 10,000 residents, which stretches alongside U.S. Highway 101.

Sheriff’s deputies, travelling with chain saws in their patrol cars to cut fallen trees blocking roads, went door to door in rural communities 40 miles (64 kilometres) south of Portland, telling people to evacuate. Since Tuesday, as many as 16,000 people have been told to abandon their homes.

“I’ve been through hell and high water but nothing like this. I’ve been shot down and shot at but this — last night, I’m still not over it,” said Lloyd Dean Holland, a Vietnam veteran who barely escaped his home in Estacada on Tuesday night.

Holland said Oregon State Police had warned him to leave earlier in the day, but the fire seemed far away and he decided to stay. Around 10 pm, he said, his landlord came pounding on the door screaming at him to go.

Firefighters tackle Oregon’s wildfires, September 8, 2020

After a 30-minute tour of the fire area south of Seattle in Sumner, Washington, Gov. Jay Inslee said the blaze is “just one example of probably the most catastrophic fires we’ve had in the history of the state.”

He said that in the last couple of days, more than 480,000 acres (194,424 hectares) burned.

American Red Cross, Northwest Region

About 80% of the small eastern Washington farming town of Malden was levelled by flames from a fast-moving fire on Monday.

American Red Cross, Northern California

In Oregon, at least four major fires were burning in Clackamas County, a suburban county in Oregon that’s a bedroom community of Portland. The entire county of nearly 420,000 people was put on notice to be ready to evacuate late Tuesday amid winds gusting up to 30 mph (48 kph).

Several huge blazes burning in Marion County, southeast of the state’s capitol city of Salem, merged overnight — turning the sky blood red in the middle of the day.

Cline reported from Salem, Oregon. Associated Press writers Andrew Selsky in Salem, Rachel La Corte in Sumner, Washington, Nick Geranios in Spokane, Washington, and Lisa Baumann in Seattle contributed to this report.

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From the RSOE EDIS, Emergency and Disaster Information Service 

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Winds gusting as high as 50 mph fanned dozens of catastrophic fires wildfires Wednesday across a large swath of Washington state and Oregon that rarely experiences such intense fire activity because of the Pacific Northwest’s cool and wet climate. Firefighters were struggling to try to contain and douse the blazes and officials in some places were giving residents just minutes to evacuate their homes.

The fires trapped firefighters and civilians behind fire lines in Oregon and leveled an entire small town in eastern Washington.

The scenes were similar to California’s terrifying wildfire drama, where residents have fled fires raging unchecked throughout the state. But officials in the Pacific Northwest said they did not recall ever having to deal with so many destructive fires at once in the areas where they were burning.

Sheriff’s deputies, traveling with chain saws in their patrol cars to cut fallen trees blocking roads, went door to door in rural communities 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Portland, telling people to evacuate. Since Tuesday, as many as 16,000 people have been told to abandon their homes.

“These winds are so incredible and are spreading so fast, we don’t have a lot of time,” said Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts.

Fires were burning in seven Oregon counties and rural and suburban homes miles away from Portland, Oregon’s largest city, were under preliminary orders to prepare for possible evacuations. Three prisons were evacuated late Tuesday and Gov. Kate Brown called the state’s blazes unprecedented.

Salem City, Oregon

“We know our losses are going to be great, but we know that Oregon is strong and will stand together,” Brown said.

The Pacific Northwest is no stranger to wildfires, but most of the biggest ones until now have been in the eastern or southern parts of the region – where the weather is considerably hotter and drier and the vegetation more fire-prone than it is in the western portion of the region. Fires in 2017 and 2018 crested the top of the Cascade Mountains – the long spine that divides dry eastern Oregon from the lush western part of the state – but never before spread into the valleys below, said Doug Grafe, chief of Fire Protection at the Oregon Department of Forestry.

“We do not have a context for this amount of fire on the landscape,” he said. “Seeing them run down the canyons the way they have – carrying tens of miles in one period of an afternoon and not slowing down in the evening – (there is) absolutely no context for that in this environment.”

Fire crews were focusing on trying to keep people out of harm’s way and preventing houses from burning. Officials said that containing the fires was a secondary priority on Wednesday, although there was concern some fires south of Portland could merge and become a much larger inferno that would be more difficult for firefighters to handle.

“We’re really at the mercy of the weather right now,” said Clackamas Fire District Chief Fred Charlton.

In Washington state, Gov. Jay Inslee said more than 330,000 acres (133,546 hectares) burned in Washington in a 24-hour period – an area larger than the acreage that normally burns during entire fire seasons that stretch from spring into the fall. About 80% of the small eastern Washington farming town of Malden was leveled by flames from a fast-moving fire on Monday. Among the buildings that burned were the town’s fire station, post office, City Hall and library.

“It’s an unprecedented and heart-breaking event,” Inslee told reporters. He blamed hot weather, high winds and low humidity for the explosive growth of the fires in Washington state.

In Oregon, at least four major fires were burning in Clackamas County, a suburban county in Oregon that’s a bedroom community of Portland. The entire county of nearly 420,000 people was put on notice to be ready to evacuate late Tuesday amid winds gusting up to 30 mph (48kph). Another major fire in southern Oregon prompted evacuation orders in much of Medford, a city of about 80,000 residents. And several huge blazes burning in Marion County, southeast of the state’s capitol city of Salem, merged overnight – turning the sky blood red in the middle of the day. Thousands of people were braced to flee if evacuation orders emerged.

Oregon

“It was pitch black dark out there – all you could see was red,” said Wendy Phelps-Chapman, activity director at the Marian Estates independent senior living center in Sublimity, Oregon, which evacuated its 160 residents on Tuesday.

Some school districts that had just begun distance learning canceled classes due to power outages or the threat of imminent evacuations or issued warnings Wednesday that classes might be canceled if fires spread closer. Wind storms downed power lines and tens of thousands of people lost power in the northwestern Oregon and southwestern Washington. Near Eugene, Oregon, dozens of people ordered to evacuate on Tuesday couldn’t get out because fire debris was blocking roads, according to the Oregon State Fire Marshal.

Fire crews eventually helped 46 people escape.

And on Monday, 70 people were hemmed in by fire along with firefighters near the small city of Detroit, Oregon, the Idanha-Detroit Fire District said in a Facebook post.

An evacuation by helicopter was requested but the smoke was too thick for that kind of rescue operation, so they eventually escaped on dirt roads used by the U.S. Forest Service.

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“We do not have any information on threatened or burned structures at this time,” the district’s social media post said. “We apologize for not being able to have more accurate information. Our main focus was protecting the lives of our community members, campers, and firefighters.”

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Oregon: https://wildfire.oregon.gov/

Washington state: https://www.dnr.wa.gov/wildfires

California: https://www.fire.ca.gov/daily-wildfire-report/

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  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h45dBEq1NyM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7G-fPYhTbw&feature=emb_logo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRPKPJR1k5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6QSze8X5w The front of the initial contamination from the Fukushima sabotage back in 2011 was met by a HAARPed up low pressure center about 50 miles across centered on Everett Washington state’s Paine Field AFB. As predicted, this HAARP circle 24 hours later became the center of a record 4.45 inch rainstorm from thick clouds saturated with radiation from Fukushima.

    • Somebody way high in the military is making the mistake of coveting Satanic dominion. Never hand a psychotic a loaded gun in private, or if you want to stop Rothschild zionist communism, never hand a psychotic a loaded gun and crystal methamphetamine in public. Notice the particle infrared ray emanating from the uranium mine in south east Oregon of ‘Uranium 1’ fame. Gee. I wonder if this is an inside job.

  2. The fire this time ,we are at stage 2 here on the Oregon coast , bags ready to go, friends have evac. already from Lincoln City ,no body can breathe outside for long without a mask . Actually there is no where to go except the beach , similar to the Tillamook Burn in 1933/1951 . Amazing powerful east winds and 85 at midnight days ago . Newport is crowded with evacs , strange, all the folks already wearing masks under blood orange skies . And so it goes.

  3. Long-time reader. I signed up just to make this comment.

    A youtuber named dutchsinse caught direct evidence of massive energy beams being fired into wildfires. They were on a publically accessible satellite feed from a university.

    Please go see it here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nDnzPkuJiX0

    He is posting more videos of more beams.

    These are the hottest wildfires ever recorded. There’s a reason.

    All these wildfires are in conservative areas of blue states. Maybe they are trying to create a population of poor devastated right-wingers with nothing to lose that they can weaponize? Who knows. These are dark times.

    • I read something, whereas the residents of CA own the mineral rights under their homes. This was (as I recall) because of gold rush legislation. A lot of the fires seem to be in mineral rich areas. Is it possible someone is trying to clear out the public, the forbid rebuilding to allow other people to move in and cheaply acquire the land and thus the mineral right to gold and lithium? Just thinking out loud.

  4. the Sumner fire is 3 miles from my hovel. my wife can see helicopters dong a retardant drop from our roof.
    hope I’m here tomorrow.
    A V-22 was buzzing us earlier, JBLM is just next door.

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