Fire Crews Stay Busy

Fire crews in the eastern part of the Gorge were kept busy over the weekend.  On Saturday afternoon, two air tankers helped quickly stop a fire southwest of Dufur   The Oregon Department of Forestry says the Winslow Road Fire was stopped at 10 to 12 acres.  The fire’s cause remains under investigation.  Also on Saturday, a motor home was destroyed in a fire on East 17th Place in The Dalles.  According to Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue, the owner of the motor home had just started driving it when he heard a loud backfire, and a neighbor started yelling that the vehicle was on fire.  A nearby home suffered some paint blistering.  On Sunday, during the afternoon Dallesport fire crews extinguished a grass fire near the Highway 197 bridge.  And in the evening Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue responded to a grass fire east of Oregon Cherry Growers caused by someone throwing fireworks into the dry grass.

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