Returned Sweet Home firefighters discuss SoCal experience

Oregon Strike Team 17, which includes Sweet Home firefighters, center right, prepare to leave Yreka, Calif., to make the final leg of their drive home. The strike team consisted of engines from Albany, Sweet Home, Lebanon, Harrisburg and Dallas. Photos courtesy of SHFAD

While the rest of the population watched TV images of devastated neighborhoods, Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance Department members were on the scene of the Southern California fires, helping to put them out.

The seven SHFAD staffers spent Jan. 11-25 on the road or working on fire control for some of the 20-some fires that burned through nearly 60,000 acres, destroying more than 18,000 structures and killing at least 29 people, with more than 30…

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