Fire season
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Do We Have to Decide Between Fire Safety and Housing? 

Home-hardening codes can save homes. But some will say they’re at the expense of building more homes in the first place.
by The Source Editorial Board

The City of Sisters got a lot of attention when it became one of the first cities in Oregon to adopt a set of codes around home hardening and defensible space. Now, the City of Bend is set to vote on doing something very similar. The codes may raise the price of new homes slightly […]

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The Biggest Local Stories of 2019

From living on hot sauce to a Republican walkout, there’s lots to remember about the past year
Matt McDonald

Editor’s note: It’s been a big year for national news—but local news had its ups and downs as well. In the spirit of journalistic collaboration, we asked Matt McDonald, news director at Central Oregon Daily, to recap the biggest local stories he and his team worked on this year. Hot Sauce Saves the Day!!! In […]

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Fireworks and Fires

On July 4, Pilot Butte didn’t burn; calls were down
Chris Miller

The 2019 4th of July was a tame one by recent standards. No one lit Pilot Butte on fire, no brush fires were reported and, according to the Bend Fire Department, calls were down in comparison to years past. However, even with the somewhat calm year, two homes sustained damage as the result of the […]

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Saving S’Mores

As fire bans happen earlier and earlier, these fire pits can let you stare into the flames (mostly) year-round
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

It’s a primal urge: To stare into the flames under a blue-black bonnet, alive with tiny white stars. Evolutionary Anthropologist Daniel Fesser of the University of California-Los Angeles has an explanation about humans’ attraction to fire, saying in a 2012 article with Live Science that adults’ “fascination with fire is a direct consequence of not […]

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Regional Roundup

Oregon headlines, found this week in Cascade Reader
The Source Staff

Fire Season Off to An Early Start About 3:30pm on May 8, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office gave people in the Lazy River subdivision north of La Pine a Level 3 (go now) evacuation notice, due to a quick-moving brush fire that started from a backyard debris burn. The fire burned about 12 acres and […]

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