It didn’t take long for Randy Whitfield to realize he’d found his calling when he joined the Sweet Home Fire Department in 1990 as a volunteer.
“It was easy for me,” Whitfield said. “It definitely scratched an itch.”
Whitfield, 62, retired Feb. 1 after some 35 years in firefighting, in Lebanon and Sweet Home, where he finished as a battalion chief after a long stint as a volunteer.
“Roy Gaskey got me started,” he recalled,…