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Smell of Gas Evacuates Recovery Home

Lingering vapors kept residents away from home overnight

(SALEM) - During the heavy wind and rain of Sunday night, 6 women, 6 children and 4 visitors were evacuated from the Waterside Oxford Recovery Home at 2103 Broadway Street NE.

Salem Fire Department responded to the call of a gasoline smell at 6:55 PM, bringing 3 fire engines, a ladder truck, a Battalion Chief and two medic units.

Local Red Cross Volunteer Deployed to Floods in Washington

"...I do like the idea of helping people – so that’s why I am going.”

(SALEM) - American Red Cross volunteer Dan Androes of Monmouth is preparing for a three week assignment in Bellingham, Washington.

Androes will be working in a Red Cross warehouse used to stock shelters and to provide people with items they will need to respond to severe flooding and the clean-up effort once flood waters reced.

Androes has been a Disaster Service volunteer with the Willamette Chapter of the American Red Cross for over two years. In 2004 he reposnded to Huricanes Charles and Frances and was in Ft. Pierce, Florida when Hurricane Gene made landfall.

Two Hunters Find Victim That Plunged 100 Feet off Cliff on ATV

Ironically, crash victim Philip Adamson says his brother is the murder victim who was recently discovered, dismembered, in the Columbia River.

(ESTACADA) - Two bird hunters responded to calls for help Saturday around 6:30 PM and saved a recreational vehicle rider who had driven over a steep embankment and was seriously injured.

It happened a on Forest Road near Squaw Lake, east of Estacada. After a brief search, the two bird hunters, Shane Turner, of Estacada and Rob Beguelin, of Mulino, headed toward the male voice calling for help...

Family of Five Rescued From the Santiam River Near Jefferson

Jefferson firefighters worked in a joint operation with Albany Fire crews to deliver the family to safety.

(JEFFERSON) - Fire crews rescued a family of five that became stranded near the confluence of the North and South Santiam Rivers east of Jefferson at approximately 6:30 PM Tuesday evening.

Jefferson Fire District Spokesperson Elaine Parrott says Water Rescue personnel were called to assist the stranded party who ended up on a rock bar after their five inner tubes, tied together, became tangled in a tree snag.

All family members, 41-year old Frank Furnish, 38-year old Teresa Furnish, their two daughters 8 & 11, and son 7, were wearing life jackets.

Tigard Man Rescued From Mount Jefferson

Oregon Guard helicopter crews recovered the man from difficult terrain.

(Mount Jefferson) - Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller says deputies received a call Friday at 5:30 PM from the wife of an injured climber on Mount Jefferson.

Las Vegas Man Rescued From Pacific Crest Trail After Suffering a Seizure

(DETROIT) - On Tuesday, at about 4:00 PM, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office received a report from a group of hikers in the Mt Jefferson Wilderness area that one of their party, 29-year-old Ricardo Rosenbusch, had experienced a seizure and was unconscious.

Sheriff’s spokesman Kevin Rau says the hikers were about four miles up from the Breitenbusch trailhead on the Pacific Coast Trail at the time.

Two members of the group, 21-year-old Daniel Harmon and 18-year-old Joseph Harmon, both of West Linn, hiked out back to their car at the trailhead and drove to Detroit to call for help.

It was not until after dark that members of the Marion County Search and Rescue teams were able to begin their ascent to where Rosenbusch was.

Search Resumes for Two Boys, 4 And 5, Missing in Rural Clatsop County

The U.S. Coast Guard helicopter has joined in the search for the two boys, and their 10-month old lab.

(ASTORIA) - A search is under way in rural Clatsop County for two young brothers, ages 4 and 5, who wandered off while camping at an old family home.

The family, from the Portland area, was wrapping up the trip when the boys disappeared around 10:30 AM Monday.

The home, is located on Lillenas Road off Oregon Highway 202, about 11 miles from Astoria.

The boys are blonde and dressed in white t-shirts, light-colored shorts and sandals.

They are accompanied by a 10-month-old black Labrador retriever.

Oregon Guard Launches Helicopter to Aid Search for Missing Man (UPDATED)

Launching repeatedly to search for the missing man, guard crews say they will probably resume the search Monday.

(SALEM) - The Oregon National Guard launched a UH-60 Blackhawk around 9:00 AM from the Army Aviation Support Facility in Salem today to assist the search for a man who has gone missing in Linn County.

The crew brought the helicopter back to the AASF in Salem late in the morning, then launched again to resume the search.

Coast Guard Busy With Rescue Operations on Coast Saturday

The boys, ages 10,15, and 17, became stranded as the tide began to rise.

(LINCOLN CITY) - U.S. Coast Guard rescuers were busy Saturday along the central and north Oregon Coast. The first call came in just before 1:00 PM.

The Coast Guard then rescued a 15-year-old boy from an offshore rock near Lincoln City just before 2:00 PM. Coast Guard Station Depoe Bay received a call from Lincoln City dispatchers that two boys were trapped on an offshore rock near Lincoln City.

Oregon Guard Launches From Salem to Search for Missing Female Hiker

A female hiker in the Roseburg area has been missing for over 48-hours.

(SALEM) - The 1042nd Medical Air Ambulance Company - Army National Guard dispatched an OH-58 helicopter at approximately 2:00 PM Thursday afternoon.

A Guard spokesman says the crew is on a search and rescue mission, six miles east of Roseburg, for a missing 25-year-old female hiker.

Sources report that she has been missing for 48 hours now, and her condition is unknown.