Back in August of 1996, a nasty thunderstorm strikes Central Oregon. “I looked up in the sky and there were these huge billowing clouds, and I thought, ‘Oh my goodness, it looks like a fire ...

Ted Frostenson stood atop his house the morning of Saturday, Aug. 24, 1996, watching the Skeleton Fire creep along the forest floor toward the Sundance subdivision. As he watched, the slow-moving ...