Microwave Tower Fire Update August 8, 2024

Size: 1,313 acres Start Date: July 22, 2024 Cause: Undetermined Location: 5 miles west of Mosier, ORContainment: 89% Fuels: Brush, timber, and grass This will be the last daily update for the Microwave Tower Fire Highlights:Crews are monitoring the few remaining smoldering hotspots within the interior. Smoke may be visible fromInterstate 84. No perimeter growth has been observed. For questions or concerns […]

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Smoke in the Area

There is smoke that has taken over Mosier. Please do not be alarmed, this smoke is from other fires in the area and from Washington State. There is no new fires in the Mosier area and the containment lines of the Microwave Tower Fire are intact and being constantly patrolled by US Forest Service and ODF units 24 hours a day.

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Microwave Tower Update 8/6/2024

Size: 1,313 acres Start Date: July 22, 2024Cause: Undetermined Location: 5 miles west of Mosier, ORContainment: 89% Fuels: Brush, timber, and grassHighlights:Within the fire’s perimeter, a few pockets of unburnt fuel, stump holes, and debris continue to burn, producingvisible smoke along Interstate 84. Although smoke is present, no perimeter growth has been observed. Someclosures have been established around the fire’s perimeter for […]

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Microwave Tower Fire Daily Update July 30, 2024

Size: 1,306 acres Start Date: July 22, 2024 Cause: Human – Under Investigation Location: 5 miles west of Mosier, OR Containment: 53% Fuels: Brush, timber, and grass Highlights: The Central Cascades Interagency Management Team assumed command of the Microwave Tower Fire on Monday, July 29, 2024. Yesterday, crews made excellent progress in building and securing lines. On the western edge of the […]

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ODF Announces Fire Protection Level 2 Close Down Order for MH-1

By virtue of the authority vested in me by ORS 477.625, ORS 477.670, and OAR 629-043-0070, Ihereby issue notice the following subject area is susceptible to damage by fire and proclaim IndustrialFire Precaution Level 2 to be in effect:All lands protected by the Central Oregon Protection District, in regulateduse area(s) MH-1 and all forestland within one-eighth mile thereof.Under Industrial Fire Precaution Level […]

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New Administration Hours

Starting June 21, 2024 the Mosier Fire District Fire Administration office will have new hours for Fire Season. The new hours will be from 12:00 noon until 8:00pm Monday thorough Friday. This change is being done to facilitate a more expeditious response in the event of a wildfire. The hours will return to normal hours starting November 1, 2024.

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