Gov. Brown signs $220 million bill to modernize, improve wildfire preparedness
Gov. Kate Brown s office
Gov. Brown holds aloft wildfire preparedness after signing Friday at World Forestry Center in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) On Friday at the World Forestry Center, Gov. Kate Brown ceremonially signed Senate Bill 762, comprehensive legislation passed with bipartisan support that will provide more than $220 million to help Oregon modernize and improve wildfire preparedness through three key strategies: creating fire-adapted communities, developing safe and effective responses, and increasing the resiliency of Oregon’s landscapes.
The bill is the product of years of hard work by the Governor’s Wildfire Council, the Legislature and state agencies, Brown s office said in a news release.
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Here we are, at the beginning of what could prove to be worst wildfire season ever, and the worldâs best firefighting tool sits unused and not ready to go because of decisions made by the U.S. Forest Service and states not to use it.
Unfortunately, in 2002 two Lockheed C-130 Hercules airplanes crashed while fighting fires, one in California and one in Colorado. In 2004, the U.S. Forest Service made the decision not to use the large tanker firefighting airplanes, instead relying on helicopters and smaller planes.
The 747 Supertanker would have really helped on these fires: The 2020 Oregon fires burned 1,221,324 acres, killed 11 people and burned 3,000 buildings. At Canby, in the middle of the day the streetlights and outside lights of businesses were on because of the darkness from the smoke. On July 12, 2017, lightning started the Chetco Bar Fire, near Brookings, and it burned 191,125 acres. In 2017 the Eagle Creek Fire, near Cascade Locks, burned 50,000 acres and most likely
Riverside Fire
What started out as a small fire near the Riverside Campground suddenly turned into a large blaze along the Clackamas River of Sept. 8, 2020. Fifteen campgrounds, five trailheads, and nearly 33 miles of trail were damaged or destroyed during the fire. according to USDA. The fire mostly impacted the Mt. Hood National Forest.
When: 2020
Acres burned: 138,054
Archie Creek Fire
The Archie Creek Fire burned east of Roseburg in the North Umpqua corridor on state, private and federal land, according to InciWeb. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but it was largely fueled by a combination of high winds, hot temperatures, and dry timber and grass/scrub. The fire was part of Oregon s historic Labor Day fires in 2020.
Here we are, at the beginning of what could prove to be worst wildfire season ever and the world s best firefighting tool sits unused and not ready to go because of decisions made by the U.S. Forest Service and states not to use it.
Unfortunately, in 2002 two Lockheed C-130 Hercules airplanes crashed while fighting fires, one in California and one in Colorado. In 2004, the Forest Service made the decision not to use the large tanker firefighting airplanes, instead relying on helicopters and smaller planes. The Supertanker would have really helped on these fires: The 2020 Oregon fires burned 1,221,324 acres, killed 11 people and burned 3,000 buildings. At Canby in the middle of the day, the streetlights and outside lights of businesses were on because of the darkness from the smoke. On July 12, 2017, lightning started the Chetco Bar fire, near Brookings, and it burned 191,125 acres. In 2017, The Eagle Creek fire near Cascade Locks, burned 50,000 acres and most likely could have been
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