Garbage pile fire lit by landowner near Old Hwy 30, Baker City OR
Fire & ArsonA 20 by 20 garbage pile fire was reported near Old Hwy 30. The landowner confirmed he lit the fire and agreed to have it extinguished. There is no burn ban and the fire occurred on unprotected land.
Audio|Source: Baker County Sheriff and Fire
02:40
Transcript:
00:00
Yeah, did this fire, does it run under Rangeland protections district?
00:11
Can you repeat that?
00:15
Does this fire fall under Rangeland Protection's District?
00:23
As an unprotected and it looks like the tertiary responders is Durkee RFPA.
00:31
All right, copy that, thank you.
00:40
Midnight 25.
00:46
Have you notified Durkee RFPA yet?
00:55
We will do that now.
01:01
Yeah, you might give them a heads up. You know, it's in their district.
01:05
Let them know we're not going to be able to do anything with this.
01:09
This is unprotected land.
01:10
There's no burn ban going right now, so they're just burning without a permit.
01:18
So we're kind of confused on what to do here. But I think we're going to pull everybody off this and turn it over to rain section.
01:31
Midnight 26.
01:33
B.O.O.O.O.S.
01:50
Turkey,
01:52
RFPA, we have a report of a fire at near Old Highway 30,
01:58
a 20 by 20 garbage pile is on fire.
02:02
24 and 25 are on scene.
02:05
This is a page for information.
02:13
2201-39 on red.
02:19
I can go ahead.
02:22
I spoke with the landowner, he did light the fire. He's not going to have any issue with anybody being up here and he doesn't believe anybody else is going to have an issue with it either.
02:31
He is fine with the fire being put down.
02:35
Copy that. I'm on landline with RFPA right now. I'll get back to you here in a second.
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Near Old Hwy 30, Baker City, OR 97814
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