Sean C. Morgan
Pat MacMeekin fanned flames uphill toward a house Friday morning as he demonstrated fire behavior to high school students attending Sweet Home High School’s annual fire school.
The tongues of fire moved through dried twigs arranged on a table with a pair of simulated hilltops. At the summmit of one was a small paper house. MacMeekin, who works at the Philomath office of the Oregon Department of Forestry, picked up a fan…