Month: October 2025

Kelsey Merison

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — According to Bend Fire and Rescue, a 911 call shortly before 4 a.m. Friday morning led responders to a storage facility on Bend’s east side, where a caller reported smoke coming from the building.

Upon arrival, crews spotted smoke coming from the Storage Solutions complex on Twin Knolls Drive. They quickly extinguished the fire and worked with the owner of the storage complex and its managers to identify and notify those with units impacted.

The fire is still under investigation but Bend Fire said it appears to have been accidental. Damages are estimated to be around $125,000.

Read the full press release below:

“A passerby called 911 just before 4am Friday morning after noticing smoke coming from a storage complex that backs up to Bear Creek Rd at Janalee Pl. Crews responded to the area and searched both storage complexes in the area until finding smoke coming from a building in the Storage Solutions complex on Twin Knolls Dr. Fire was found in one unit and spreading to adjacent units in that building. The fire was quickly extinguished, and crews began removing contents from adjacent units to prevent further damage to property.  

The owner of the storage complex and the managers assisted in identifying the owners of the individual units and notification will be on going. The fire is still under investigation but appears to be accidental. The building damaged consisted of seventh (17) 10ft x 30ft large storage units, all but 2 were occupied with storage. Three units were damaged by fire and the rest have differing levels of smoke damage. Estimated loss to the building is $25,000 and content loss is $100,000.

Most storage locations require, or at least suggest, occupants obtain insurance coverage for your contents. Check with your insurance provider to see if storage items are covered under your current policies or if additional coverage may be needed. The design of these storage complexes does limit damage to just the single building, one of 16 buildings in the complex. Any storage outside of the building that burned was not affected.”

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KTVZ – News Team

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ). — This morning KTVZ News at Sunrise Anchor Matthew Draxton welcomed in Luke Pickerill, the CEO and founder of MonteVista Homes. MonteVista homes is a Central Oregon based company with developments throughout the state. He was here to discuss all things housing Market.

Draxton asked Pickerill if he could explain the impact homebuilders and the housing market has on the local economy, the biggest challenges homebuilders are experiencing right now, and what the company is doing different than others to address the affordability crisis in Central Oregon.

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CNN Newsource

By Aaron Cooper, CNN

(CNN) — Alaska Airlines has resumed operations after a failure at a data center forced hundreds of its flights to be grounded Thursday night.

A ground stop for all Alaska Airlines flights and flights of its subsidiary, Horizon Air, was lifted at 11:30 p.m. PT, the airline said in a statement. The ground stop was requested by the airline about eight hours earlier as the IT outage began, the FAA said.

“Alaska Airlines is working to restore operations to normal as quickly and safely as possible,” the airline said Friday morning, noting more than 360 flights had been canceled during the outage. “Additional flight disruptions are likely as we reposition aircraft and crews throughout our network.”

The airline said the outage took place when “a failure occurred at our primary data center,” and noted it was “not a cybersecurity incident.”

Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, where Alaska Airlines is based, was particularly hard hit Thursday night.

“They were like, OK, we’re going to be taking off. It’s an hour and 58 to Burbank, and then we didn’t move,” passenger Wilder McCullough told CNN affiliate KOMO. “That is scary, to have an IT shut down, when people are trying to get in the air.”

She ended up going home and trying to fly on a different day, but many passengers waited in the airport for flights to resume.

“People were everywhere. They were sitting in the hallway on the floor. They were calling people. They were freaking out,” a different passenger said.

One traveler in Austin, Texas, said the Alaska Airlines gates there were also “jammed” as the delays piled up.

Alaska Airlines had a similar outage in July and one after a systems upgrade in April of 2024.

Alaska is the fifth largest US airline and flies 44 million passengers each year to 120 destinations in five countries, accoring to its website.

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CNN’s Jordan D. Brown and Martin Goillandeau contributed to this report.

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