Local firefighters extinguished an excavator fire on the Sweet Home Ranger District Saturday evening.
Firefighters from the Oregon Department of Forestry Sweet Home Unit and the Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District responded to the fire at 4:55 p.m.
The fire was located 3 to 4 miles off Highway 20 from the Yukwah Campground on a Forest Service road.
A Forest Service contractor had been removing culverts from a road the Ranger District was decommissioning,…