Chet Behling, a forester with the Oregon Department of Forestry, explains why the state agency sends first-year firefighters to fire school. Behling works out of Veneta and was among the more than 200 firefighters at a live fire practice Friday, June 29, 2018, near Sweet Home. [Dylan Darling/The Register-Guard]

<p>Chet Behling, a forester with the Oregon Department of Forestry, explains why the state agency sends first-year firefighters to fire school. Behling works out of Veneta and was among the more than 200 firefighters at a live fire practice Friday, June 29, 2018, near Sweet Home. [Dylan Darling/The Register-Guard]</p>

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