Kelly Kenoyer
It was supposed to be her last day firefighting before she began teaching for fall, but the weather had other plans.
Twenty-five-year-old Hailey Schilling, a third-grade teacher at Foster Elementary School, had spent the summer working for the Oregon Department of Forestry as a member of an initial attack crew – the firefighters who get on the scene first when a fire is still small, and try to keep it that way.
Her…