At least he got a free beer out of it

The chair was green and plastic, the kind you might find in a patio set or along the edge of a creek.

But for one night, Don Myron used it as a shield from embers of the Beachie Creek Fire, as he sheltered from raging flames on a rock in the middle of the Little North Santiam River.

“Everything around me was on fire,” said Myron, 56, who has lived in the Elkhorn Woods community in the Little North Canyon for the past 11 years. “That chair helped save my butt.”

Myron’s story is just one coming out of the Little North Canyon, one of the areas hit hardest during the Labor Day wildfires.

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-Don in Oregon