Sean C. Morgan
In response to the arrival of hot, dry weather, fire danger spiked to extreme last week in the Sweet Home area for the first time in a couple of years, while smoke from the Shadow Lake fire near Sisters settled over Sweet Home.
A string of thunderstorms starting Aug. 28 ignited numerous fires across the Willamette and Deschutes national forests, including the Shadow Lake fire, which grew to more than 10,000 acres…