The blaze began on July 6 after someone set a pile of illegally dumped garbage on fire. Firefighters were able to put out the fire before it spread far.
SALEM, Ore. — A man has been arrested and accused of igniting a small wildfire in the Willamette National Forest in Lane County earlier this month by lighting a pile of illegally dumped garbage on fire.
A helicopter crew spotted a column of smoke near the forest on July 6 and reported it to the Oregon Department of Forestry, who sent out a crew that was able to put out the fire. It turned out the fire was on land owned by the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM), so BLM fire investigators took over at the scene, according to a BLM news release.
The investigators found that fire began when someone dumped the garbage on public land and then set …
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