Wildfire blocks roads near Antelope evacuation route

Heard on: Multnomah OR Law Dispatch Group Calls

01:26

00:00

I got several cars trying to get out of here and it's blocked every direction.

00:06

Twenty-two, I'm back in my car.

00:09

Again.

00:11

Two forty-five, 02:10 .

00:15

I'm almost to you, 20 .

00:16

You can hear you now.

00:18

245, 210.

00:21

Go ahead.

00:23

Apparently all the highways are blocked every way out of Antelope, and I've got people wanting to get out of here.

00:30

Got any suggestions?

00:35

Do you have cell phone service? No, 21, yeah.

00:38

I got one bar, you can try.

00:42

245, 210, I got one guy in a.

00:45

Van, kind of a green colored older van, elderly guy.

00:49

He needs to get to Madras.

00:52

I'm going to go ahead and let him go out 293.

00:56

22, break. Do not send him out 293.

00:59

You can't even see the road here.

01:01

The fire seems to have jumped about milepost 67.

01:06

And there's all kinds of equipment and people in the road, and it's wide out.

01:12

Okay, well.

01:13

He's got to get to the hospital in Madras.

01:15

I'm just trying to figure a way for him to get out of here.

01:17

It's blocked in every direction.

01:20

Take it slow and let the ODOT workers know that you gave them permission.

01:24

Copy. I will do that.

7/16/2026 05:15 PM

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OR-293, Antelope, OR

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Wildfire blocks roads near Antelope evacuation route

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