Nearly five years ago, a combination of dry conditions and heavy winds starting on Labor Day quickly accelerated the spread of multiple wildfires that had broken out in the Oregon Cascades. Eleven ...

Anael Sanchez is walking over the rubble of what used to be his home in Phoenix, Oregon. "It was crazy," Sanchez said. He lost his home in the wind-driven Almeda fire which tore through four towns in ...

The wind-driven 2020 Almeda fire that destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in southern Oregon also burned down invasive blackberry bushes. Some were as high as six feet along Bear Creek, which ...