After being treated at a local hospital, Smith was taken to the Curry County Jail and charged with first-degree arson and reckless burning. While firefighters battled two small blazes, the three residents stopped and apprehended the suspect.Īccording to officials, the man was identified as 30-year-old Trennon Smith of Veneta, Oregon. Officials dispatched three helicopters to battle the fires, with the aid of ground crews and local residents. The firefighting mission took a turn when an employee with the BLM told sheriffs that the fires had been started by “a white male adult” who was walking along a gravel road in the area. Currently, 11 wildfires are burning across the state. Oregon has issued extreme-wildfire-danger warnings, with parts of the state hitting record high temperatures this week. Monday morning, sheriffs received an alert of multiple active fires in the forested area between the town of Mariel and the Rogue River Ranch. The incident concluded a sizable law-enforcement operation that involved the Oregon Department of Forestry, Bureau of Land Management, local firefighters, and the sheriff’s office. “An ambulance crew was asked to respond due to some injuries that the suspect apparently received from falling down.” “It was reported that the suspect became very combative with the three residents,” the county sheriff’s office said in a release.
When the man refused to stop, the residents subdued him and bound him to a tree. Don’t endanger the forest in southwest Oregon-you might end up tied to a tree trunk.Īccording to law enforcement in Curry County, Oregon, on Monday, three residents apprehended a man who was suspected of starting wildfires in the area.
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