It may be fake smoke, but this fire camp is no joke

For the second year now, Bend firefighters have put on Camp Fire Axe, where teens get to experience pretty much all the training real firefighters do, except on a smaller scale

By Erin Golden / The Bulletin
June 21, 2009

Ashlee Lindor has known for a while that when she’s done with school, she wants to do one thing: become a firefighter.

The petite 17-year-old, who will be a senior at Redmond High School in the fall, has done what she can to learn the ins and outs of the job by participating in a job....

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