Sweet Home firefighters late Tuesday afternoon, April 15, are probing the South Santiam River to determine that no one was in the cab of a city backhoe, which rolled into the river just after 3 p.m.
Police Chief Jeff Lynn said the backhoe was parked in the city maintenance yard at the north end of 9th Avenue. For some unknown reason, it rolled down the slope between the maintenance yard and over the bank into…