REDMOND, OR -- Deputies responded to two transient camp fires on opposite ends of Deschutes County, Thursday. The first started as a car fire near Old Ice Cave Road, in La Pine, at about 7:45 a.m. Deputies determined the camp and vehicle were unoccupied but battled the fire for more than 40 minutes until the Walker Range Rural Fire District arrived.

In the afternoon, deputies helped put out a fire at a camp off East Antler in Redmond. DSCO responded to the area just north of Highway 126 at about 3:30 p.m. and found a tree on fire, spreading to brush. Redmond firefighters remained on scene for about an hour and believe the tree ignited from smoldering embers from a fire they’d extinguished the day before.