Students learn fire safety techniques at annual event

Scott Swanson

Fresh off some instruction from Oregon Department of Forestry firefighters on how to manage portable water reservoirs, Sweet Home senior Devon Dixon was looking forward to lunch on Thursday, April 2, during the annual fire school hosted by the Sweet Home Forestry Club.

Dixon and 81 other forestry students from seven Oregon high schools spent 2½ days at Camp Tadmor and in surrounding forests learning how to fight wildland fires. Their instructors were…

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