Umatilla Chemical Depot will continue to use their Mass Alert Notification Siren System that was previously used for siren alerts to the on post for incidents involving CSEPP.
Umatilla County has a confirmed case of septicemic plague in an adult male county resident. Septicemic plague is a form of the disease that is not readily transmitted from one person to another.
The Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility reached the 90 percent disposal point today in its last campaign when the incineration facility destroyed the 2,371th ton container.
EAST UMATILLA COUNTY RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT -- Three (3) of East Umatilla County Rural Fire Protection District Personnel, were on a Lookout point starting at about 8 PM, observing lightning strikes at which time they noticed a Multiple Lightning strikes to the Southwest towards the...more Southeast. At about 1016 PM District Personnel looked to the north and saw a glow and a running fire that was later to be located on Price Ranch Road and Winn Road, in a Stubble field. When district...