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Officials urge residents to sign up for alerts; Red Cross shelters open in Sisters
Summary
Officials thanked Red Cross volunteers, described shelter operations at Sisters High School, and urged residents to sign up for Oregon alerts and to prepare evacuation plans and multilingual notifications.
State officials described shelter operations and community support for evacuees, and urged residents to sign up for alerts and take practical preparedness steps.
The agency official thanked volunteers at the Red Cross shelter at Sisters High School and said shelters were serving people who evacuated at level 2 and 3. They urged residents to register at alert.gov and to check wildfire.oregon.gov for maps and updates. "If you'd like to follow, the updates for all the fires and see the maps, you can go to wildfire.oregon.gov for more information," the official said.
Officials also emphasized that shelters allow pets where possible and acknowledged community trauma from prior seasons. They encouraged multilingual signups for alerts to reach all residents.
