Sean C. Morgan
Oregon Department of Forestry Sweet Home Unit, local landowners and a Weyerhaueser helicopter got to work quickly Thursday evening, Sept. 7, after a lightning strike lit up a hill along the Quartzville Corridor and kept it at about half an acre.
The fire was located on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property about 2½ miles off Quartzville Road along Trout Creek Road, said Neil Miller, forest protection supervisor with the ODF Sweet…