August 10, 2020 4:00 a.m.
Crews with the Douglas Forest Protective Association dealt with a number of fires over the weekend.
Kyle Reed of DFPA said a structure fire located five-miles northwest of Sutherlin spread to the surrounding vegetation around 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Reed said crews worked to suppress the wildland portion of the Highway 138 West Fire while firefighters from three other agencies worked to suppress the structure fire. The structure was fully consumed. The fire burned 1/10th of an acre of wildland fuels.
A downed power line sparked a natural cover fire Saturday evening, located eight miles northeast of Tiller near the 10,000 block of South Umpqua Road. Crews from DFPA and the Tiller Rural Fire Department responded to the fire shortly after 9:30 p.m. and located it between Sam’s Creek and Radford Creek. The fire was burning in an area with sparse forest fuels due to a fire that burned in the area last summer. The Sam Radford Fire burned a quarter of an acre before it was suppressed. Crews remained on the scene for several hours.
Firefighters from DFPA, Tenmile Rural Fire Department and the Winston-Dillard Fire Department responded to a natural cover fire Sunday afternoon, located nine miles west of Winston near the 3,000 block of Reston Road. Reed said crews arrived on the scene of the Reston Road Fire around 1:30 p.m. and reported a fire spreading up a hillside where fuels reduction work had been completed by DFPA crews three years earlier. An aggressive initial attack by firefighters using aviation and ground resources stopped the forward spread of the fire at a quarter of an acre of wildland fuels about ten minutes after crews arrived on the scene. Crews remained until about 5:00 p.m. A preliminary fire investigation revealed the cause of the Reston Road Fire was power line related.
Crews from DFPA and Azalea Rural Fire Department responded to a grass fire Sunday evening located nine miles northeast of Glendale near the 1,000 block of Eakin Road. Upon arrival, firefighters found a 1/10th acre grass fire that the landowner had extinguished. Crews remained on the scene until 7:00 p.m. The fire was caused by a tree that went into the power lines.