Oregon Wildfire Destroys Dozens of Homes and Disrupts 911 Service
A wildfire in southern Oregon that started over the weekend was so intense that it disrupted 911 services and burned dozens of homes, which officials were not able to reach for days.
The Golden fire, which started on Saturday, damaged an estimated six miles of fiber-optic cable and more than 100 power poles, Lake County officials said on Tuesday. The county is on Oregon’s border with California and Nevada.
“We have state and federal resources helping us through this issue to get everything restored as quickly as possible,” Daniel Tague, the Lake County emergency manager, said in a statement. “We hope to have a temporary fix in the works.”
For now, Lake County emergency calls are being rerouted to Klamath County, where all 911 calls were being dispatched to the appropriate agencies.
Source: The New York Times
