Oregon governor declares state of emergency amid fire danger as resources strained
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Firefighters in Oregon are doing what they can to keep up with wildfires, but resources are strained and conditions are predicted to get worse.
Gov. Tina Kotek on Friday evening declared a state of emergency because of the imminent risk of wildfire.
Right now, nine fires are burning across Oregon.
Not only are resources strained in Oregon, but nationally fires and fire danger in New Mexico, Arizona and Utah are occupying much of the mutual aid resources that Oregon may have otherwise been able to count on in case of quick spread.
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Already over 100° and those firefighters are out there. Heart goes out to them.
@@williamweiss6128 its in the 70s there right now.....
@@Chris4Bama Where?
@@conniewojahn6445 going by Eugene. Currently at 89°
I miss being in a hot box in a forest fire
Maybe they should consider forest management.
Just thinkin' out loud here.
Utah, Idaho, CA, OR, AZ. Are we seeing something other than heat related ignition like lightening? Things are so stupid in this world and specifically the U.S. it really makes me wonder.
Arsonists with a plan.
Arsonists hired by the left
Underground volcanic activity. 🤫🤐
Some suspicious fires in the Malhuer Co.area. investigators asking questions. The yellow fox tail annual grass is especially thick and dry this season.
@@kerrym5424 I agree with you, all these fires remind me of what happend in Maui. 15 minute cities are coming, with more control over the population.😢
Praying for everyone❤❤❤
Why? That does not do anything. If you really want to help then go help the firefighters
Now we know that the Most High heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of the Most High, and doeth his will, him he heareth. - John 9:31
If you're not keeping the law, that prayer isn't going past your ceiling.
You also need to be a child of Yahsharahla(Israelite), otherwise the Most High isn't hearing you, neither does he care about you.
HOW DARE THOU REQUEST ALTERATION OF GOD'S (in this case fiery) PLAN!? BE SILENT PEASANT.
Damn, is the whole west coast on fire?
At times it seems like it!
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Pretty much yeah. We have three seasons. Snow, Beautiful, and Hellacious.
Makes people who live in Oregon Forests (like me) worried about fire.
@@cassandrakay6943 is every year.
Its part of it's natural process.
@@LadyLithias i worry & we live on the flat here in the middle of the Dayton prairie! This entire area is a tinder box! Everything is dry as a desert. When your trucks temp gauge reads > 100f & you have not started them for a week that tells you something. Also when we drove the truck the truck started as if it had been just shut off despite it not having been operated for a week!
Awe, man… this is awful 😞
Why utilize forestry management. It only reduces wild fires and creates jobs and exports for the state via timber. But salamanders… Arson should be a minimum of a $10,000,000 fine and at least 50 years in prison.
F the spotted owl....
People can't even afford rainwater, how can they pay a fine?
Maybe the US should stop funding wars all over the world and use that money and resources here
@@rdallas81 Yep!
@@philabowl8073 WTF is the matter with you?
Prayers to all the firefighters and everyone trying to put out these fires Prayers to all the people in the times
That's just 😢
Certainly wonder when loggers are going to be allowed to Manage Forests once again.
Then they wouldn't be able to cover up their arson.
Huh? Roughly 85% of Oregons forests are actively logged. But explain to me how that would have done anything for this grassland fire? Or how that will reverse the continuing hotter dryer conditions we continue to see due to climate change?
There is no Climate Change @@stevemcqueen399
@@stevemcqueen399 There it is. So easy to blame a scam like CC. This planet has gone through cycles so buying into the liberal crap
50¢ and that idea will get you a pack of gum, maybe.
Earlier today I saw helicopters hauling buckets of water wast to east from the Dayton Or. area. I assume they were hauling water from the Yamhill river to a fire somewhere near here. The grass seed farmers all have had their fields swathed for several days now but unusually have not combined for the seed yet. Never seen that in the 25 years we have lived here. Normally the grass seed fields are combined right after being swathed. My nephew came up from Albany & said you could see smoke in his area as he drove up.
So you think they didn’t harvest on purpose?
@@rudyb1652 No, I think they maybe waiting for storage space for the seed. According to my neighbor last years seed crop has not all been sold yet & the $$ for this years crop has plummeted from the last few years. Most farmers don`t have a lot of seed storage although they do have barns to store the grass seed straw once combined for seed & then baled into 1,100 # big bales. I`m also thinking they maybe cautious with field fires as well. We have had several trucks & a combine catch fire last year out in the field across from our farm. Scary when that combine caught fire!
Two years ago we had a major thunderstorm (with Hail) in the middle of the summer. About 15 minutes later a helicopter arrived with a bucket of water, and we realized that three or four of the lightning strikes had lit up the hill above our house (about 100 yard away from our home). The two things that kept it from being a tragedy were the advantage of all that hail. And best of all, the immediate response from the forestry services, paying attention to the lightning, and sending resources. I have slept easier ever since that event. About 40 helicopter buckets of water from the Klamath River, and three crews wielding chainsaws, and they kept it down to 4 or 5 acres.
Pretty solid of him to squeeze in an interview. Go Oregon Fire Department!
Resources strained? Maybe if you didn’t spent it on homelessness and chase businesses out of the state.
Stay safe!
We are late-August dry and temps so much higher than our average. We had a day of cooler temps and are back into the 90s again. Triole digits a few days ago. We used to get 5 90°+ days each summer. We've had at least 15 90° days already. I remember dry spells in the past. We'd have heat waves, too but for maybe 3 days.
You cannot live in Oregon and not see the effects of climate change. When marina docks are 100' from the water's edge at one of NW Oregon's boating paradises you can't help but see what's happening. Plus that area was the part of Oregon that that was obliterated by fires in 2020. That wall of orange smoke moving towards us. Couldn't sed the house across the street. Apocalyptic. Worst air quality in the world for 2 weeks straight. A 5 hour drive to get to clean air. The smell was horrendous and it lingered for days after. Everything saturated with the stench. It sure didn't smell like burning pine trees. Homes, businesses, factories and cars. Just imagine the chemicals released into that smoke. Had they only shut down the power grid until the high winds had passed all those people and their livestock and their homes would still be there. Downed power lines, dry conditions and high winds. Far easier to count buildings left standing than the hundreds gone. You could count them on one hand. When the smoke clleared and the little burger shop beside the highway was still intact in a sea of ash and twisted, melted metals it was such a sweet surprise. I was 10 the first time we had stopped there. 1967. Did so much camping up there as teens. My sister lost her RV that was parked at the marina. Small beans compared to the destruction. This was all just about 15 miles E of Salem. Way too close for comfort. Dry, burning pines in wind can spread a fire faster than a person can drive themselves out of it.
It was scary. Two old ladies and a dachshund on their own. There were fires popping up so close to neighborhoods. We had bags packed with essentials ready to go. My Jeep in case we had to sleep in it. Where was the issue. There was fire in every direction. It seemed like the lushest, greenest parts of Oregon were all on fire. Like half the state was in flames. I NEVER want to experience that orange wall coming at me again. Sorry about the essay.
@wendybutler1681 damn...replied to your own comment cause you ran out of room on the comment. You need to go outside and touch the ground for a bit.
It has nothing to due with your climate religion.
Maybe not start controlled prescribed fires in mid June..?
Yeah throw more money at a politician saying he is going to fix something yepers
sad
Are these fires being set on purpose? We need to find out!
Why are they letting this happen when Oregon has so much water.
Democrats starts every thing
The water is not located in these areas!
@@n.wealand-pasttime Congrats on your maximum dumb comment.
@@n.wealand-pasttime youre a kook
@@iracordem not wrong tho
Human caused fire, taking out irreplaceable wildlife habitat.
Evert year!
I would like to know if these fires were naturally started or arson by someone.
did you not watch the video?it said in there it was human caused
Those damn power companies.
Both, the winds and an exceptionally dry season create some themselves and rapidly spread smaller human made ones.
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At least Ukraine has another $30 billion, but we can’t seem to pay enough to have firefighters.
That is the demorats way
You really think democrats care.
Exactly
Wouldn’t need fire fighters if the environmentalists would allow smart logging g and forest management.
Saw a hiring post for firefighters last year. $11/hr, yes this was posted in OR.
In Jesus Mighty Name stop the winds stop the fires, I pray allow more help, I pray for everyone safety Psalm 91 protection to my family, Amen 🙏
Cow valley is well over 100000 acres
Wild fires, how’s them open borders ?
We can all pray for Gods hand, for rain. The state of Utah did this recently, last year or the year before, and they got lots of pockets of rain.
I never knew Oregon was a desert too
Half and half. The west side is very lush and green, and the east side is more rocky and arid.
Thanks to the spotted owl and the
The management of Oregon and Washington and California needs to retire and get out of the way. Liberals cannot manage a country.
Yeah, I remember the republican representative I used to have here in OR, and he believed that the problem with forest fires is having forests. He just wanted to turn the trees into cash, and eliminate the problem.
Seems to me that your comment does a grave disservice to the human beings who dedicate their lives in a thousand different ways to make sure that their little sphere of influence is the best it can possibly be. Just because a person lives in those states doesn't make them automatically a "liberal" and the majority of Oregon that is actually burning is in counties run by conservatives. Also I think it might be important to note that these aren't countries. They are states.
The biggest problem is that (I'll generalize here).... country folks (conservative mostly) have specific concerns, and are often contribute to the economy significantly (Farmers, RAnchers), and they don't think that their needs are understood or given any voice. They feel ignored and attacked by laws put out by the city folks (liberals, mostly). For their part, they have concerns and needs that a country dweller can't understand either. The more the folks on both side try to understand one another, and suppress the radicals on both sides, the more real patriots can get on with trying to make this country "a more perfect union".
For the record, I was born in Seattle, grew up in Silicon Valley, and have lived a rural life for the last 25 years. I've been independent, republican and Democrat. I try to leave generalizations behind, and focus on what any one individual says or does. That is how I judge them. I might be more liberal than conservative, but I take each human being as a person with opinions. I don't think "that's an (R), must be an idiot." Actually, plenty of idiots on all sides of the idealogical aisle.
@@LadyLithias
It's not necessarily the people. So much of those states it is the people's will that they elect the same old, sad so-called leaders of the people. Everyone wants to concern themselves with issues that are above and beyond the limits of our borders.
And then they want to make all citizens of the world citizens of the USA. I'm on a rant. I've never been an independent. I've never been a republican. I've never been a Democrat. I just call it as I see it. And there's been Republican neocons that have been worthless as titties on a borehog. But the biggest problem though, is the brain dead democrats in our country, the ideology within their party SUX.
Well congratulations on moving around. So much to all the liberal cities and places. That's all it takes. Just open your mouth and remove all doubt.
@@LadyLithias It seems that an entire party ran cover with the media for a senile "commander in chief". It's hard to imagine how that was in the best interest of the Nation, it is easy to understand when you realize they hate the "peasants".
You mean that GOP can't govern at all. Their plan is to cut all trees down is dumbest idea to do. Trimming to reduce fuel is okay but cutting entire forests down that is protected by federal? Yeah, fuck that idea.
Ok Texas, Florida and the lower red states! No power, again! Under water again! Trailers and Stick houses shredded again! How stupid of a comment!
Larch creek in the gorge? Not really
Larch creek is only about 20 miles from the Dalles. That's very close.
Ok this is crazy to me all these sites are controlled burn sites and we can carry all the dry stuff out of the rolling hills the valley and the mountains
Arizona is burning up too.
No we are not. Got a few fires but nothing bad
Time for the cavalry!
So much for sustained forest products of our United States interior and agriculture departments in USA.
I bet jim balushi is sweating bullets
How many of the fires are started by arson? Why don't they want to tell you?
I think in many cases they want to (a) deal with the fire and leave the causes to be determined later. If they say it's arson, but it's speculation, that's not reporting the news. We have a lot of lightning here in Oregon, and have been in significant drought conditions for years. It doesn't take much.
No lightning going on it's just hot, windy and dry.
some of the fires were reported as being caused by humans. You missed that eh?
God prevails always in his name God will reign
Firefighters never had a chance to
Always human caused
Not always. Lightning does it's fair share.
@@LadyLithias Yes but at this time, it's not lightning related as we hadn't seen any thunderstorm for many weeks. Besides, didn't they rule that Larch Creek fire was due to human cause?
Around 90% of wildfires are human caused. Usually it's things like escaped campfires, vehicle exhaust manifolds, and discarded cigarettes. I was on a small fire in June that was caused by a guy grinding in his shop with the door open. People tend to think arson, but that's actually pretty uncommon.
@Turd_Burglar804 quit being a mockingbird troll. Copying and pasting the same stupid spam over and over.
Our GDP is being attacked
All these illegal immigrants in the country. Why not put them to work?
WA has housing developments designated only for migrant workers. They are working. Hard. Doing the jobs us white people don't want to do. And that's not racism, I'm speaking from experience. They put in WORK. You want to be in a field 10 hours in 90° heat? Yea, I didn't think so.
Russians. Its the russiana
What would Trump do? Rake the forest?
We are destroying our planet 😢
She thinks she is really cute batting her eyes constantly
Studio lights are very bright, guessing she had dry eyes mixed with the very bright lights. I doubt she's doing it intentionally.
00:47 чуловек 🤔
This is what happens democrats cut the budget for clearing dead trees and brush. Increase the budget. Then forestvfires will be lessen.Neighbor , a retired oregon state forrester, said the forest is in bad health.
1 million acres burned in Texas!!
Along with 500 homes/ranches and livestock.
Stfu!!!
Jon, no. No, Jon.
@leaf1131 doubting reality ? Neighbor was in the Forrest department for 35 years. We had no smoke in my city until the last 13 years. Now the forest fires are much worse. People get get killed each year.
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F the spotted owl....
F the planet bro!🙄
I will try and sleep tonight
Shouldn't she be closing down more farms today?
Global cooling HA !
Summers were hot throughout history. Nothing new.
My one friend said this is going to turn into hell the Earth. Yep it is!
1 friend? You need a better one
That's nothing.... Joe Bidens kitchen caught on fire.... he almost lost his cat😢
And that ByeDone zombie cares more about his Corvette than "the little people".
Sommer it's just star do we're fair I people are doing illigal this country but camera in somebody house keep watching them report them way ?
Seems like you must be one. You English is horrible
What she means is don’t be an arsonist..
Although nearly 90% of wildfires are caused by human activity, very few of them are arson. Some of the most destructive fires have been arson, however. Like the Alemeda fire that wiped out two Oregon towns in 2020.
No, it's arson
@@theoryofpersonality1420 that’s what I said but in a different way… geez. Get over yourself.
@@Turd_Burglar804 naive…
@flyingeaglewoman8682 lol I was just gonna leave you to your BS, but you had to reply to two of my comments. No. I'm a wildland firefighter, so I keep informed on all of the active incidents in the west. Arson is indeed pretty rare, and when it happens, it's not covered up. It becomes huge news. There's no conspiracy here, just you being a schizo.
O Lord, to Thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. Joel 1:19
Believe in One God
Lock that governor up for these fires
That bullshit Oregon has lots of water.
Republicans…is global warming real enough for you yet? We can’t solve this problem without you.
Oh! How deceived!!
lol brainwashing is real.
Summers have been hot throughout history. Wildfires are nothing new. Before all this technology, you likely would know nothing about wildfires unless in your area and you see the smoke.
Arsonists are busy.
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How told u people to come but camera in my hoy wachin my sex life my drug and report me way ? Don't u new I help this country u not poor
Joes always looking for new speech writers.
Her "state of emergencies" never get anything done.
Neither do yours.
@@jimk8520 that was dumb af.....
They unlock money 💰💰💰
No, they just pad their pockets with the federal dollars they receive while everything continues crash down around them.
And enable regulation…
The Oregon Governor should institute a mandatory draft and use the homeless people in Portland to do firefighter work.
We'll put you in charge.
@@MrBadjohn69 you first..
@@jl535 SO you plan on doing an insurrection to remove the Governor of Oregon?? How ANTIFA of you.
@@flyingeaglewoman8682 As I am not a homeless person on the mean strets of Portland this would not apply to me. ALSO I am in a select age group that can never be drafted. Thank you President Carter.