Evacuation levels continue to drop in Harney County
By Mindy Gould on Thursday, August 15th, 2024 in Eastern/Southeast Oregon News More Top Stories
HARNEY COUNTY-August 15, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Evacuation levels are again being lowered due to the increasing containment of the Falls and Telephone Fires 2024.
Refer to the map here https://bit.ly/FallsFireEvac or check out your Genasys app for full details as there are numerous updates.
𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐋 𝟑: 𝐆𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬.
𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝟑 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝟐 (𝐁𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐭):
o The areas east of the Falls Fire to the north of the Telephone Fire, to the 1705 Rd / Gunbarrel Creek as the eastern border. Southeast of the Falls Fire to Poison Creek and to the Telephone Fire.
𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝟐 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝟏 (𝐁𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲):
o The area north of Hwy 20, east of Hwy 395C toward Rock Creek
o The area south of the Falls Fire was moved from a Level 3 to Level 1
𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐎 𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐋:
o From the Grant/Harney County line, east of the Telephone Fire that from Rock Creek to Pine Creek Road down to Highway 20 (on Highway 20, this is just before milepost 152 to 165)
𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟓𝟒𝟏-𝟓𝟖𝟗-𝟓𝟓𝟕𝟗
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