Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District and other firefighting agencies got some really good news last week: $8,711,040 worth of it, to be exact.
The district was alerted that it had received a Community Wildfire Defense grant from the U.S. Forest Service, which goes to communities that have limited resources and face high risk from wildfire.
“It’s pretty amazing,” said Nick Tyler, Sweet Home fire chief.
He said the district has wanted “for quite a…