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PDX In Your Pictures: Smoke

by Aaron

smoke by RebeccaPollard
Everyone is invited to share Portland photography with the OurPDX community by participating in the OurPDX Flickr group.

01.06.2010 See the rest → 0 comments

Someone Tried to Burn Down My House

by djtv

Last Friday I came home to what looked like — at first, anyway — some wind-blown containers scattered around my yard. But when I went to pick them up, I discovered some burn marks in my lawn and a circle of flammable material underneath the bedroom window, with some burn attempts there, as well. [...]

10.03.2009 See the rest → 5 comments

OurPDX Shared Links

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments):
Space heaters trigger Lake Oswego house fire
Be careful out there with those space heaters, people! Earlier this week, this *could have been me*…

View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

12.20.2008 See the rest →

“It’s not the kind of change we wanted.”

by Cosmic Charlie

I’ve never understood wanton hooliganism. If you’re happy, do happy things! If your team wins the World Series, don’t go out and burn up cars and loot businesses. Thoughtless destruction doesn’t make things better.

Tuesday night was a happy time for lots of people. Our country is changing, and the atmosphere was like [...]

11.06.2008 See the rest → 1 comment

Three-alarm fire smokes up the sky

by A. L. Venable

As I stood at the bus stop on NW 21st and Savier earlier this evening, I saw a huge thick plume of smoke off in the distance.
It wasn’t until I got home that I saw there was a three-alarm fire in SE Portland at the Empire Rubber & Supply Co. Hopefully, there was no [...]

09.08.2008 See the rest → 3 comments
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