COOL AND WET FALL-LIKE WEATHER ARRIVES LATER THIS WEEKEND… A change in the weather pattern is expected later this week. The rainy season likely begins in earnest Friday or Saturday as the…
Category: Public Safety
Watch out for wildlife: Vehicle-wildlife collisions peak this time of year – Roadkill salvagers reminded to get their animal tested for CWD
(October 12, 2022 -SALEM, Ore.) — Vehicle collisions with deer and elk tend to peak in October and November, when migration and breeding (the “rut”) puts them on the move, making them more…
Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office & Oregon State Police Traffic Stop Turns Up Weapons, Drugs
On Saturday morning, October 8, 2022, TCSO Corporal Chris Barnett responded to assist OSP Trooper Tom Mayne with a traffic stop near the Beaver Shell station, with a person that had several…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: Dense Fog Advisory – Sunday 10/9 at 11:00 PM until 11:00AM Monday 10/10
NIXLE ALERT: Tillamook County Emergency Management (10/9/22 – 5:44 PM) * WHAT…Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog. * WHERE…In Oregon, North Oregon Coast. In Washington, South Washington Coast. *…
FATAL CRASH ON HWY 101-TILLAMOOK COUNTY SEPT. 29
(Posted on FlashAlert: October 3rd, 2022 12:29 PM) On September 29, 2022 at approximately 5:27 PM, Oregon State Police Troopers and emergency personnel responded to a two-vehicle crash on Hwy 101 near…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weekend Weather & Wrap up National Preparedness Month 9/30/22
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for Tillamook County Pioneer Friday, September 30, 2022 Weather The first real rainy front of the fall season gave the area anywhere from a half an inch of…
GORDON’S UPDATE: Weather & National Preparedness Month Tips 9/28/22
Thursday, September 29, 2022 Weather Between the cold front, the trough of low pressure, then the associated low pressure area moving across the area, some areas in and around Tillamook got about…
OHA lifts health advisories for Short Sand, Rockaway beaches Sept. 29
PORTLAND, Ore.—Oregon Health Authority (OHA) today September 29, 2022, lifted public health advisories for contact with ocean water at Short Sand and Rockaway beaches, both located in Tillamook County. The health authority issued the…
Opioid overdoses increased in 2021, OHA report shows; Fentanyl and methamphetamine help fuel rise in deaths and hospitalizations
PORTLAND, Ore.—Methamphetamines and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl helped drive an increase in opioid overdoses and related deaths in 2021, according to a new Oregon Health Authority (OHA) report. The report shows that…
HPAI confirmed in two Tillamook County backyard flocks
On September 28, the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) confirmed two cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in neighboring non-commercial flocks in Tillamook County. These are…