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Blue Heron paper-mill blaze in Oregon City probably caused by ‘makeshift stoves,’ fire inspectors conclude
The Blue Heron Paper Company filed for bankruptcy in 2009, and the Oregon City mill shut down two years later. The complex has sat empty, moldering, ever since. The property was bought by the ...
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Blue Heron paper mill fire sparks air quality concerns as site continues to smolder
The vacant Blue Heron paper mill in Oregon City is now just a pile of rubble, still smoldering more than a week after a three-alarm fire. There will now only be one train set in service on the ...
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Blue Heron paper-mill blaze in Oregon City probably caused by ‘makeshift stoves,’ fire inspectors conclude
“Makeshift stoves” used by homeless people are the likely cause of the blaze that tore through an industrial building at the former Blue Heron paper mill in Oregon City last month, fire ...