BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING

The Wallowa Lake Rural Fire Protection District will hold a budget committee meeting at 6:oo PM on May 23, 2016 at Glacier Grill, 72784 Marina Drive, Joseph, OR 97846. At this meeting, the budget committee will (1) receive the proposed budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, (2) hear the budget message, and (3) take questions and comments from the public regarding the proposed budget.

Information about the District is available at wallowalakefire.blogspot.com. Questions? Contact Board Treasurer David Hurley at 541‐426‐2700.

HOUSE FIRE BRINGS FIREFIGHTERS FROM THREE CITIES

Firefighters in eight rigs from Joseph, Enterprise and Wallowa doused a house fire on Ice Creek Road late Thursday afternoon, Jan. 7, working in ankle-deep snow.

It was the first major fire in many months within the Wallowa Lake Rural Fire Protection District. Damage to the structure was extensive. The fire's cause is undetermined.

 

JOSEPH FIREFIGHTERS ASSIST IN FIGHTING WILDFIRE NEAR JOSEPH

Joseph firefighters have joined personnel from the Oregon Department of Forestry and U.S. Forest Service working to quell a wildfire that broke out Saturday, Aug. 21, in the Eagle Cap Wilderness four miles southwest of Joseph.

By Sunday, the blaze had grown to 200 acres and residents along Hurricane Creek Road had been warned to be ready to evacuate if necessary. It was at 250 acres by Tuesday.

Joseph's primary duty is to protect structures in the path of the fire.

Joseph firefighters confer with the Oregon Department of Forestry and U.S. Forest Service before assuming structure-protection assignments along Upper Hurricane Creek Road. That's Joseph Fire's red Humvee equipped as a wildland engine. 

WILDLAND FIRE CONTAINED ON LITTLE BASIN CREEK

Firefighters from the U.S. Forest  Service and Oregon Department of Forestry have contained a wildfire in the Little Basin Creek area near Dug Bar Road in the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area.

The fire 10 miles north of Imnaha, first reported at 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 15, was estimated to cover 630 acres, according to the Forest Service.

Lower Imnaha Road has been reopened after being closed from Dug Bar Road to pavement's end at Fence Creek.

On the scene at fire's peak were 99 firefighters, including hotshot crews from La Grande and Union, six engine companies, three hand crews, three helicopter crews and an air tanker pilot.

Fire officials initially listed the fire as "human caused" and now report that it is under investigation.

JOSEPH AND ENTERPRISE VOLUNTEERS WORK FATAL TRAFFIC CRASH NEAR WASHINGTON BORDER

At dusk on Highway 3, ambulance at left and medical helicopter await victim

Joseph and Enterprise fire departments traveled more than 30 miles north of Enterprise to a traffic accident on Highway 3 late Monday afternoon, Nov. 10.

Responding with Wallowa County sheriff's deputies, Sheriff's Search and Rescue and Oregon State Police troopers, they discovered the body of a deceased Asotin, Wash., woman in an auto 500 feet down the embankment.

An OSP investigation indicated that the northbound car crossed the southbound lane, traveled off the shoulder and rolled into the canyon.

A medical helicopter landed nearby but was not needed.