Survivors of 2020 Labor Day fires share stories of rebuilding

Survivors of 2020 Labor Day fires share stories of rebuilding

5 years after the Labor Day fires, some survivors have rebuilt, others have moved on. They all live with the trauma of seeing their neighborhoods burn to ashes. The ones who stayed live with the possibility of seeing it happen again.

NEW GRANTS MARK FIVE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF LABOR DAY FIRES

September 9, 2025 3:40 a.m.  Five years after the Labor Day megafires devastated parts of Oregon, 11 nonprofits are receiving new funding to help communities continue to recover and prepare for future disasters: The Oregon Community Foundation has announced $120,000 in new grants from its Disaster Readiness and Response Fund, to help organizations in areas impacted, including Douglas County. An OCF release said the fund is an initiative that eme…