EDITOR’S NOTE – From over 3 hours of meetings, the Community Leadership meeting and an Emergency Board of Commissioners meeting today: It is truly the worst of times … by the numbers…
Category: Public Safety
How Does That Criminal Justice System Work? Criminal Law 101
OIOpublisher EDITOR’S NOTE: As part of our on-going series about crime in our community (see link to Crime Wave in Tillamook County below), the Sheriff’s Office and local police officers are often…
Go-Bag Class Goes Online
The Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay will hold its first online Go-Bag training class Friday, Aug. 27 via Zoom. The 90-minute class will run from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The new…
Adventist Health Tillamook Pauses Elective Surgery Schedule to Accommodate COVID Surge Effective Aug. 18 through Aug. 27
August 18, 2021, Tillamook, Ore. – In order to address the influx of patients needing testing and treatment of COVID, Adventist Health Tillamook Medical Center is pausing elective surgeries for the remainder…
FATAL CRASH ON HWY 101- LINCOLN COUNTY FRIDAY AUGUST 13th
On Friday, August 13, 2021 at approximately 8:51 A.M., Oregon State Police Troopers and emergency personnel responded to a two vehicle crash on Hwy 101 near milepost 121. Preliminary investigation revealed a…
Most of Oregon under air quality advisory due to wildfire smoke and ozone through Monday Aug. 16
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Southwest Clean Air Agency and Lane Regional Air Protection Agency issued and extended air quality advisories Friday for many parts of Oregon due to smoke from fires in…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: Gordon’s Update – Weather; Mask Up Indoors State Mandate – 8/13/21
By Gordon McCraw, Tillamook County Emergency Management Director Friday, August 13, 2021, 09:00am Weather Warm here but still hot over in the valley with the ridge of high pressure drifting east over…
MOTOR VEHICLES, CAMPFIRES BANNED ON EASTERN PORTION OF TILLAMOOK STATE FOREST DUE TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER
FOREST GROVE, Ore. — With fire danger rising across northwest Oregon, use of motorized vehicles and all campfires will be prohibited on the eastern portion of the Tillamook State Forest and state…
Tillamook County Emergency Management Alert: Excessive Heat Warning Wednesday to 10:00PM Saturday
Tuesday August 10th, 2021 :: 12:58 p.m. PDT * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 100 expected. * WHERE…In Washington, I-5 Corridor in Cowlitz County. In Oregon, Coast Range of Northwest…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: Gordon’s Update – Weather & COVID-19 – 08/10/21
By Gordon McCraw, Tillamook County Emergency Management Director Tuesday, August 10, 2021, 09:15am Weather We continue to watch the upper level ridge of high pressure building to the west that will drift…