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Grasswire2

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5. I live on the bank of the river that runs through Portland.

Reply to CentralMass (Original post)

Tue Jun 22, 2021, 12:05 PM

Jun 2021

The wooded island/park in front of my home was set on fire by an arsonist last September 9. Five fire departments, three fire boats and 900 feet of hose required to extinguish it, with the wind blowing strong toward a wooded area at the top of which are multiple senior residential facilities and condo complexes. Could have been a mass casualty event if a blowing ember went that way. Something literally happened to my heart that night, and I've been under a cardiologist's care since then.

Going to be 107 here this coming weekend.

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Fireworks go on sale here in (drought stricken) Oregon tomorrow through July 6th. What could [View all] CentralMass Jun 2021 OP

And fire season is already upon us -- even in western Oregon -- earlier than usual. KPN Jun 2021 #1

Hi KPN myformer MA compatriot. I moved here at the end of 2014. CentralMass Jun 2021 #4

I voted somewhere and maybe just Eugene where all sales voted banned. LizBeth Jun 2021 #2

I can not see Mt. Hood (Wy'East) from my Portland deck Thunderbeast Jun 2021 #3

I climbed up to Larch Mountain from the Multinomah Falls parking lot on CentralMass Jun 2021 #7

I live on the bank of the river that runs through Portland. Grasswire2 Jun 2021 #5

107? I so hope they are exaggerating. Maybe really only 102 degrees. Shrike47 Jun 2021 #6

The power was out for a while last night in Oregon City-Gladstone, I hear. Grasswire2 Jun 2021 #8

WA has even looser fireworks laws. Many Oregonians come up and stock up captain queeg Jun 2021 #9