David Preston of the McKenzie River Ranger District watched Friday morning as approximately 200 young firefighters scrambled over a hillside on Green Mountain, building firebreaks around smoking slash and rolling hose.
“Turn your Pulaski over,” he yelled to one young man, who was carrying his combination axe and mattock tool with the axe side up. “We don’t want anybody cutting themselves.”
Preston was one of some 50 instructors and support personnel who were at the…