Fire season and regulated use restrictions officially took effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, June 29.
That same week, approximately 250 firefighters and 50 instructors and other personnel gathered at the Sweet Home High School for the 21st annual five-day Mid-Willamette Valley Interagency Wildland Fire School that ended in a live fire exercise Friday east of Sweet Home.
According to Joanie Schmidgall, public information officer with the US Forest Service, Sweet Home Ranger Station, Sweet Home…