SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Governor Kate Brown of the U.S. state of Oregon Friday declared a state of emergency in several counties over severe flooding that has caused landslides, partial closure of inte
Salem, Oregon— A county in southern Oregon says it's so overwhelmed by an increase in the number and size of illegal marijuana farms that it declared a state of emergency Wednesday, appealing to the governor and the Legislature's leaders for help. The Jackson County Board of Commissioners sa...
Wildfires spread in West; Oregon governor declares a state of emergencyASSOCIATED PRESS
Oregon Emergency Management GIS Interest Group (EMGIG) Involving the GIS Community in Preparedness, Response, Recovery, and Mitigation The State of Oregon's Emergency Management GIS Interest Group (EMGIG) includes GIS practitioners from across the emergency management community to advance the use of ...
(AP) — The death toll from COVID-19 in Oregon is climbing so rapidly in some counties that the state has organized delivery of one refrigerated truck to hold the bodies and is sending a second one, the state emergency management department said Saturday. So far, Tillamook Coun...
Bonamici, Arts Leaders Declare ‘State Of Emergency’Oregon Rep. calls Trump’s cuts to arts humanities unconstitutional, ‘unacceptable and infuriating’ In Conversation: Betsy Stark Miller, Executive Director, CASA for Multnomah, Washington, Columbia and Tillamook CountiesMiller talks about what looming...
"We know we're dealing with fire-related deaths and we're preparing for a mass fatality incident based on what we know and the number of structures lost," said Andrew Phelps, director of the state's Office of Emergency Management. "The long term recovery is going to last years." More...
“compensation.” Those exceptions included retention bonuses offered to employees and hiring bonuses offered to prospective employees. Because those exceptions were temporary, they automatically expire after the 180th day following the termination of the state of emergency, which ended on April 1, 2022...
California Governor Gavin Newsom said this was the “largest fire season we’ve had in recent recorded history” as he declared a state of emergency. He blamed the cause of the fires on “unprecedented temperatures, a heat dome, 14,000 lightning strikes over a 24-hour period and 150 million...
-- Authorities in Oregon now say more than 500,000 people statewide have been forced to evacuate because of wildfires. The latest figures from Thursday evening come from the Oregon Office of Emergency Management. That’s over 10% of the state’s 4.2 million population....