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Archive Home > 2005 > February > 26 > Flying high

Flying high

U.S. Forest Service pilots fight fire with flight

By Heidi Hagemeier / The Bulletin
February 26, 2005

REDMOND -

During the raging forest fire season of 2003, the sky buzzed with aircraft zipping to and from a giant of blazes, the B and B Complex fire northwest of Sisters. The 96,000-acre fire burned for about a month that summer. It triggered the evacuation of Camp Sherman twice and forced the....

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