Traveling past Mt. Hood en route to the Source office this morning, I drove through the most post-apocalyptic looking scenery you can imagine (the above picture was taken days ago). At first I thought heavy fog had descended on the flats just north of Warm Springs. But it smelled like I was standing next to a two-story tall bonfire. An orange orb in the sky was the only thing visible. Weird. And scary.

The Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center reported this morning that 45,000 acres are ablaze near Clarno (NE of Madras).

(photo credit: COIDC)

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My Smokey Drive from Portland to Bend: Wildfires in Central Oregon continue

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
August 29, 2011

<h1>My Smokey Drive from Portland to Bend: Wildfires in Central Oregon continue</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />August 29, 2011</p> </p> <p>Traveling past Mt. Hood en route to <em>the</em> <em>Source</em> office this morning, I drove through the most <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road" target="_blank">post-apocalyptic looking scenery</a> you can imagine (the above picture was taken days ago). At first I thought heavy fog had descended on the flats just north of Warm Springs. But it smelled like I was standing next to a two-story tall bonfire. An orange orb in the sky was the only thing visible. Weird. And scary.</p> <p>The Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center reported this morning that 45,000 acres are ablaze near <a href="http://maps.google.com/" target="_blank">Clarno </a>(NE of Madras).</p> <p>(photo credit: COIDC)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/my-smokey-drive-from-portland-to-bend-wildfires-in-central-oregon-continue-2138987/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=15035&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/my-smokey-drive-from-portland-to-bend-wildfires-in-central-oregon-continue-2138987/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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