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The Oregon Health Authority on Saturday announced three COVID-19 deaths and 285 new coronavirus cases as Gov. Kate Brown moved Clackamas County to the state’s lower risk category. Brown’s announcement came after Clackamas County reached a 65% vaccination rate among adults and submitted an equity plan to the state. Twenty-one other counties, including Multnomah and Washington counties, have .
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) A statue commemorating York, an enslaved Black member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was defaced this week in Portland, Oregon.
Do unseasonably warm temperatures, spring wildfires foretell devastating Oregon fire season? OregonLive.com 1 hr ago Catalina Gaitán, oregonlive.com
With the return of unseasonably warm temperatures, widespread drought, wildfires and burn bans, it’s been difficult for some Oregonians not to recall last September, when wildland blazes burned over 1 million acres, killed nine people and displaced nearly 40,000 others.
But while climate change is making wildfires more common, experts say, it takes an unlikely combination of weather conditions to create a fire season as deadly and costly as the Northwest experienced in 2020.
And even though Oregonians should be taking steps to be prepared for wildfires, they shouldn’t take this spring’s unusually warm weather as a harbinger of an especially harrowing fire season or a sign that sunny, warm days are here to stay.