The Oregon Department of Forestry stages a vehicle at the Gales Creek Fire Station on Tuesday, August 27, 2018. Photo: Chas Hundley
HAYWARD - A wildfire is burning near the Hayward area in the area between the two ends of Parson Road that no longer connect.According to Oregon Department of Forestry Forest Grove District Forester Mike Cafferata, Banks Fire District 13 and ODF crews are on the scene of a roughly ⅕ acre wildfire. “We have a wet line around the front of the fire so growth has largely been stopped,” Cafferata said in an email to the Banks Post. In addition to Banks Fire District 13 and ODF, a crew of prison inmates from the South Fork Forest Camp are enroute to assist in finishing containment of the fire.
A vehicle fire was quickly extinguished, with no injuries, in the Bacona community north of Buxton Sunday afternoon, according to the Banks Fire District.
"We are all glad to see it go," said ODF Forest Grove District Forester Mike Cafferata in an email sent Tuesday as the agency filed the appropriate paperwork to officially close the 2024 fire season.
More than a hundred teachers and staff from Banks' three public schools gathered in the Banks Elementary School cafeteria Aug. 19 for a breakfast with their peers and school officials as another school year began. With construction, new security, and a cell phone ban looming, many changes await staf
A crash in Glenwood snarled Labor Day weekend traffic for up to three miles and resulted in minor injuries to at least four people, Forest Grove Fire & Rescue said Saturday.
