He was there for worried callers seeking help as wildfires raged – even as his own house burned.
Maybe an hour into the shift, Dennis took that call from someone reporting a brush and grass fire in Mehama. Multiple calls for the same incident came in at the same time.
He wished they had followed through, especially after he started receiving calls about a fire at the base of Potato Hill, not far from the road to their house. His work station lit up as he'd never seen before. There was so much going on and so few resources. They bumped resources from one incident to the next.
Denise and Shirley Hoover, who stays at their house as part of an adult foster program, had dinner and went to bed, only to be awakened by a Marion County Sheriff's Office deputy banging on the back door.
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