Articles from the July 25, 2006 edition

Updated Jul 25, 2006

After 12 hours of relative calm, the Black Crater Fire was again spreading to the north and northeast Tuesday afternoon, July 25, from its location in the Three Sisters Wilderness about 10 miles southwest of Sisters. Firefighters struggled to control the fire blazing in dense, beetle-killed timber and dead and down trees on the south and east slopes of Black Crater. Estimates of the fire's size range up from 120 acres. Two helicopters were working the fire on Tuesday... Full story