No that anyone would necessarily notice because of the weather so far, but there are controlled burns going on this week that the County wanted people to know about. (We've seen this happen in the past, when nobody quite knew what was going on.) From the County:

Last year, when controlled burns took place in the Southeast region of Deschutes County, 911 phone lines were flooded with hundreds of non-emergency phone calls for hours at a time. These calls may have prevented 911 operators from answering actual emergency calls.

This year, to help keep 911 phone lines available to actual emergency calls, please help to spread the word by sharing these media releases with friends and family.

If you have questions about a possible fire that may be different than the controlled and planned fires below, please call the 911 NON-EMERGENCY number, 693-6911.

The full details on the two planned burns follows.

Read full burn details