About 160 firefighters from several agencies spent last week in a local fire school culminating in hands-on firefighting in the Ames Creek area on Friday.
The even provides training in preparation for the upcoming fire season for crews from Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF), the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Land Management, Starker Forests, Finley Wildlife Refuge and rural fire departments.
This was the sixth…