Scott Swanson
It’s early on a Saturday morning and someone’s reported smoke emanating from the site of a fire local agencies had responded to the previous evening, Sept. 3, on a bluff overlooking the South Santiam River and Pleasant Valley Bridge.
Craig Wilson, who’s been a summer firefighter with the Oregon Department of Forestry for 23 years, arrives on the scene. But instead of grabbing hand tools and beating his way through the thick underbrush…