Debra Gil
Weekend Anchor and Reporter, Good Day Oregon
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Debra Gil anchors FOX 12’s weekend edition of Good Day Oregon from 6 to 9 a.m. and reports and fills in for the co-anchors on the Emmy Award winning newscast during the week.
Deb grew up on a walnut orchard in Fresno, California, where she helped her grandfather on the farm and raised pigs and sheep. She started her television news career in Texas, before moving back to Central California, and then joining the FOX 12 team in 2003.
Debra is married to a former sports anchor and news reporter, who she met in a newsroom. He left the biz to be a stay-at-home dad to their daughter, who is now all grown up and lives in Beaverton. Their “at home” child now is an energetic Jack Russell Terrier they rescued here in Oregon.
Deb loves travel and sports. When she’s not at work, you can bet she’s at a sporting event or on another travel adventure such as spring training baseball in Arizona, a hockey game in Missouri, a soccer match in Belgium or sipping wine in France. She’s well on her way to completing one of her bucket list goals: to visit every MLB stadium in the country.
Her other obsessions are coffee, shopping thrift stores, reading, hiking, Northwest wines and food!
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Marion County commissioners filed a nine-page complaint on Tuesday.
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While devastating fires swept through Maui’s communities, the Humane Society on the island quickly recognized the urgent need for help.
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Grassroots efforts to help those in Maui are still alive and strong in the heart of the burn area.
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One other fire on Maui continues to burn as well and is affecting how people there live.
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Some of the people lucky enough to escape the flames in Maui did so with nothing. Now they’re trying to figure out what’s next, and when that also involves moving a pet the logistics get harder.
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FOX 12′s Debra Gil is in Hawaii to cover the fires and aftermath.
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FOX 12′s Debra Gil reports from Maui: Volunteers search through Lahaina ashes for lost, injured pets
FOX 12′s Debra Gil is in Hawaii to cover the fires and aftermath. Watch for her reports all week.
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The day after Thanksgiving means game on for holiday shopping as Black Friday brings in big crowds for major deals.
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The shelters serve both men and women, but in separate areas to live in.
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Classes were canceled again Monday for students in the Ridgefield School District as teachers remain on strike.
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Labor Day weekend is often a busy one for national forests as many get in one last camping trip.
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AAA expects Thursday afternoon and Monday afternoon to be the heaviest times for traffic.
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A search and recovery dive team from Oregon helped locate the body of a missing teenage girl from California.
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The start of a new school year is just around the corner, and many young kids will be in a classroom for the first time ever.
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The Salem-Keizer school board will decide Tuesday whether to enact a new policy that bans all guns on school property, including concealed handguns.
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Oregonians are getting their first look at proposed conduct and discipline standards for all of law enforcement agencies in the state.
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Starting Monday, children as young as six months old can begin getting the vaccine.
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All the recent rain has pushed local waterways to very high levels, and that could affect where you walk, drive, or even eat.
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Summer travel is typically the busiest time of year at Portland International Airport, and this summer will be no exception.
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The month of June means the start of wedding season, and planners and venue owners said this year is their busiest season in decades.
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As the Vancouver Waterfront continues to grow and take shape, the newest addition will give visitors a place to stay.
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Primary election day is here, and a new law, now in effect, may change how soon we see results from some of the races.
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The Portland Police Major Crash Team is investigating two incidents happening two days apart involving max trains hitting people. One incident was deadly, the other is critical.
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People will begin moving into one of Portland’s Safe Rest Villages that gives the houseless a place to live, Friday.
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News of the leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court that would throw out the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling brought swift reaction from those in Oregon who have fought for years on both sides of the issue.
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Local fire crews are getting ready for warmer months and wildfire season.
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If you want to vote in Oregon’s primary election, Tuesday, April 26, is your deadline to register to vote and to change party affiliation.
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A Vancouver restaurant owner now faces fines and major losses after a fire broke out inside just days before they were set to open.
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Most of us are enjoying a bit of normalcy now as in-person events return and, for the most part, masks are no longer required any more, but Oregon health officials say it’s causing a late-season rise in flu cases.
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TriMet and its riders have had an unusual week. First snow to start it and then ice on the overhead lines to end it.
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The lengthy process to reopen roads means utility companies have to remove power lines and tree crews have to clear trees and branches.
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To get ready for the busy summer season, Portland Parks & Recreation is on a big push to hire people.
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A new report released Wednesday is shedding light on Portland police officers’ handling of the 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
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At the close of business Thursday, Mall 205 will close its door and new owners will “revitalize” it.
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Lutheran Community Services Northwest has several Ukrainian and Russian nationals on staff and the organization is now getting ready to help more who may soon come here.
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Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan released a progress report Wednesday on the effort to make Portland Public Schools more equitable. Fagan said the district has made progress, but the board and administrators still have substantial work to do.
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Portland Public Schools is pledging to do more to combat climate change.
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With the crisis in Ukraine escalating, people are looking for help, and a Portland-based humanitarian aid group now has a team headed to Europe to assess how they can help Ukrainians.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has again highlighted an already growing issue in health care – a lack of workers to care for the sick and the aging isolating at home.
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The Oregon Senate approved a bill Thursday that establishes job protections for school superintendents. Two local superintendents were recently fired by their school boards without cause, but those appeared to reflect rifts over COVID-19 restrictions and politics.
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While anticipated rain late Thursday night and early Friday morning was a welcome sight to clear smoky skies, the storms also meant flooding for some Clackamas County residents.
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country of Morocco recently closed its borders with no grace period or warning to allow travelers to return home, leaving 10 women from Oregon stranded with no way home.
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A Multnomah county judge sentenced a rapist and murderer to life in prison Friday.
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A day after beaches were battered by high surf, it was much calmer on the Oregon coast Friday as many who live and work there were cleaning up and repairing the damage.
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Deputies in Clark County are looking for a hit and run suspect who struck a gas station employee last week in Vancouver.
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