An Oregon man says he used a green plastic chair as a shield from a huge, deadly wildfire as he sheltered from the flames on a rock in the middle of a river.
“Everything around me was on fire,” Don Myron, 56, told the Statesman Journal newspaper. “That chair helped save my butt.”
Myron had been caught last week in the Beachie Creek Fire in Little North Canyon, one of the areas most impacted by massive blazes that burned across the state. Four of the eight confirmed wildfire deaths in Oregon are from the area east of the state capital of Salem.