Wildfire (and Covid-19) Information, Alerts, and Related Emergency Resources

Use the following websites for current links to the Red Cross, emergency housing, insurance info, price gouging reporting, and other emergency wildfire and Covid-19 resources:

Oregon Wildfires: https://wildfire.oregon.gov/

Oregon Office of Emergency Management: https://www.oregon.gov/oem/emops/Pages/default.aspx

Multnomah County: https://multco.us/

Portland, Oregon (burn bans, wildfire alerts, etc.): https://www.portland.gov/

U.S. Senator Merkley: https://www.merkley.senate.gov/wildfires

U.S. Senator Wyden: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/

U.S. Representative (Oregon, District 3) Blumenauer: https://blumenauer.house.gov/

Oregon Senator Dembrow (his daily newsletter is excellent): https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/dembrow

Smoke Outlook: https://wildlandfiresmoke.net/outlooks/nworegon

Public Alerts (aka “reverse 911"): https://www.publicalerts.org/ and https://www.publicalerts.org/hazards/wildfire-2020

Oregon Department of Justice, Wildfire and Covid-19 scams and price-gouging: https://www.doj.state.or.us/

Where to donate money (two of many options):

1) Oregon Food Bank: https://www.oregonfoodbank.org/

2) Red Cross Cascades: https://www.redcross.org/local/oregon.html

211 Info: https://www.211info.org/

See these and my previous blog post (Purple Air) for air quality reports:

https://www.purpleair.com/ https://aqicn.org/city/usa/oregon/portland/m/ https://www.airnow.gov/