A three-alarm fire at midnight Sunday morning at Santiam Forest Products destroyed more than $1.5 million in finished lumber, a $250,000 building, shot flames an estimated 500 feet into the night sky and sent burning embers as far away as Rowell Hill Road.
Fire Chief Mike Beaver said the Sweet Home skyline looked like a “volcano had gone off” when he saw the flames at 12:17 a.m.
Believed caused by transients smoking in astorage building,…