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'Nothing looks good' preparing for summer wildfire season

by Andrew Selsky
| May 30, 2021 12:06 AM

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Wearing soot-smudged, fire-resistant clothing and helmets, several wildland firefighters armed with hoes moved through a stand of ponderosa pines as flames tore through the underbrush.

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