With thunder storms sweeping the region Oregon Department of Forestry is putting in extra work to keep an eye out for lighting fires in the area.
JACKSON & JOSEPHINE COUNTIES, Ore.– With thunder storms sweeping the region Oregon Department of Forestry is putting in extra work to keep an eye out for lighting fires in the area.
Lightning often strikes in remote places where oftentimes people wouldn’t notice a fire, this is what brings ODF to have people on the ground, in the sky and watching their camera detection system to keep an eye out for fires.
“Lots of different eyes from different places,” Public information officer for ODF, Natalie Weber said, “It helps us to be more successful when it comes to lightning fires, because typically they’re a lot harder to get to.”
The center in which they monitor the cameras house the team, looking at a handful of …