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We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the needs of our local community. From providing food and shelter to those in need during the Durkee Wildfire, we are committed to making a positive impact on the lives of those around us. By supporting Opulent Philanthropy Inc., you are supporting your community and helping to build a brighter future for all.
Emergency relief: Providing food, water, shelter, and other necessities to families impacted by the storm.
Debris removal and clean-up: Aiding communities in removing downed trees and other debris to clear roads and restore normalcy.
Every contribution, big or small, will bring much-needed assistance to families struggling in the aftermath of this disaster.
Here's how your donation can help:
$25 can provide a care package with essential supplies for a family in need.
$50 can help ensure a family displaced by the storm has access to food and shelter.
$50 can help support crews working to restore power to affected areas.
$100 can contribute to debris removal efforts, making neighborhoods safe and accessible again.
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Powerful winds and hundreds of lightning strikes from thunderstorms rattled eastern Oregon and Idaho Wednesday afternoon, cutting power and stoking fires, including one in Oregon that is already the largest active blaze in the nation.
The Durkee fire, burning near the Oregon-Idaho border, caused the closure of a stretch of Interstate 84 again Wednesday. Amid rapidly forming storms in the afternoon, the blaze crossed the interstate near the town of Huntington, home to about 500 people. It also merged with the Cow Valley fire that had been burning nearby, Gov. Tina Kotek said.
“The wildfires in eastern Oregon have scaled up quickly,” Kotek said in a news release, calling it a dynamic situation. “We are facing strong erratic winds over the region that could impact all fires. Rain is not getting through. Some communities do not have power.”
She said she had deployed the National Guard to the region.
Evacuation orders were lifted Thursday for the city of Huntington, population 500, after a severe thunderstorm late Wednesday brought some rain and cooler temperatures. Baker County Sheriff Travis Ash called the rain a “godsend,” but residents were warned to be ready to go again at a moment’s notice.
The fire approached Alison Oszman’s home in Rye Valley, a small ranching area north of Huntington, last week, but they were able to protect their property with the help of Bureau of Land Management firefighters and neighbors, using small tanker trucks and shovels. They used a small dozer to keep it away from the house, she said.
Since their property was safe, her neighbor moved his horses and cattle over as the fire moved toward his ranch, she said. On Wednesday night, Oszman went to check his property and found that the fire came down a steep hillside and threatened his home.
“I went and parked our truck out in the field just in case those big trees by his house caught fire,” she said. “I was making sure sparks didn’t land in the dirt or the dry grass. But as the fire passed his house, it started raining.” The rain helped the firefighters get on top of the fire.
“It was pretty scary but everything seemed to fall into place,” she said. “Everybody helped everybody. It was actually pretty amazing for how crummy it really was.”
Wind, lightning and heavy rain remain ongoing dangers and could cause flash flooding and debris flows in recently burned areas, authorities said. Flash flood warnings were issued for Huntington and in a nearby burn scar area.
The Oregon State Fire Marshal’s office mobilized nearly 500 firefighters to help protect communities that could be threatened by wildfires.
More than 60 significant fires are burning in Oregon and Washington alone, and Oregon has been plagued with hundreds of lightning strikes from thunderstorms in recent days that have started new fires in bone-dry vegetation.
The smoke from the Durkee fire was choking the air, with an air quality warning in effect for the entire region on Wednesday.
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Wildfire Disaster Relief
We are working to assist those affected, but there is a dire need for shelter, food, and water due to the rising number of evacuated families. Several wildfires broke out over the past week amid triple-digital temperatures across the West has forced thousands of evacuations and choked the air with smoke as strong winds complicated firefighting efforts. In Oregon, where 10 wildfires were actively burning Sunday, containment of the Cedar Creek Fire sparked by lightning storm on August 1 -- dropped from 12% to 0% as the fire exploded in size by more than 32,000 acres over the weekend, now swallowing 85,926 acres in very steep and difficult to access terrain. As wildfires tore through the parched lands, Oregonians were also contending with power shutoffs. Thousands of customers in Oregon, including those in the suburbs of Portland, were without power for part of the weekend.
A southwestern Oregon wildfire burning since mid-August spread rapidly from Friday to Saturday thanks to strong winds, more than tripling its total burned acreage in one day and prompting evacuation orders. The Rum Creek Fire, about a 50-mile drive northwest of Medford, has burned 4,319 acres. Evacuation orders were issued Friday and Saturday for a rural area in Oregon's Josephine County, including the small communities of Rand and Galice, county. It's unsafe for them to stay and threatens their safety, and the safety of emergency responders. Their life could be in great danger form this fire.
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Oregon Disaster Relief
Disaster Relief Oregon--- Support for firefighters and providing shelter, food and water for the victims of this tragic disaster. The Bootleg Fire is raging out of control in southern Oregon exploded for the fifth day in a row Saturday afternoon, leading to the rare step of police citing and arresting people attempting to enter or stay in the evacuation zone northeast of Klamath Falls. The fire was listed at 76,000 acres Saturday morning but appears to have grown much larger, as massive smoke plumes brought life-threatening risk and hazardous air quality across southern Oregon, according to fire crews. The fire behavior we are seeing on the Bootleg Fire is among the most extreme you can find and firefighters are seeing conditions they have never seen before. The fast-growing wildfire has prompted mandatory evacuations, threatening about 3,000 homes. Pushed by strong winds, the fire's burn zone in Klamath County has grown to more than 120 square miles.
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Protect Endangered Wildlife - Oregon's old growth forest provide habitat for hundreds of species of fish and wildlife, including threatened species like the Northern Spotted Owl and the Oregon Spotted Frog.
Keep Watersheds Clean - Trees filter excess sediment, nutrients and toxins before they enter waterways. Trees filter excess sediment, nutrients and toxins before they enter waterways. They provide shade for streams, making them healthy environments for fish, such as Oregon's rainbow trout, steelhead and Chinook salmon.
Stabilize Our Climate - Forest are an essential part of our planet's carbon and water cycles. A fully grown tree can release hundreds of liters of water in one day! Healthy trees absorb carbon dioxide and keep our climate stable.
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Providing resources to help farmers. The water crisis along the California-Oregon border went from dire to catastrophic this week as federal regulators shut off irrigation water to farmers from a critical reservoir and said they would not send extra water to dying salmon downstream or to a half-dozen wildlife refuges that harbor millions of migrating birds each year. In what is shaping up to be the worst water crisis in generations, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said it will not release water this season into the main canal that feeds the bulk of the massive Klamath Reclamation Project, marking a first for the 114-year-old irrigation system. The agency announced last month that hundreds of irrigators would get dramatically less water than usual, but a worsening drought picture means water will be completely shut off instead. The entire region is in extreme or exceptional drought, according to federal monitoring reports, and Oregon's Klamath County is experiencing its driest year in 127 years. This year's drought conditions are bringing unprecedented hardship to the communities of the Klamath Basin. The impacts to our family farms and these rural communities will be off the scale.
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Disaster Relief
Providing shelter, food, water and Reforestation. Oregon is battling numerous wildfires scattered throughout Oregon's coast. There is a Red Flag Warning in place in areas of the North and Central Oregon Coast. Thousands of residents areas have evacuation orders. Three of the largest blazes, the Beachie Creek, Lionshead and Holiday Farm fires, saying they pose a “threat to life, safety, and property” and exceed local firefighting capabilities. The Beachie Creek and Lionshead Fires burning through Santiam Canyon have scorched more than 200,000 acres. Dozens of other wildfires are raging across Oregon, spurring evacuations in many communities.
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