Editor:
I want to thank all of the firefighters in our community for their work, whether for the Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District, Oregon Department of Forestry or local logging companies.
SHFAD responded to 52 calls the night of the windstorm, Sept. 7-8. To put that into perspective, firefighters normally respond to somewhere between 300 and 400 per year. The windstorm’s call load was something like an eighth of a busy year, all in…