By Sarah Brown
Lebanon Local
It was time for Mike Pomeroy’s 12-hour shift at the Detroit Dam, about an hour away.
He said goodbye to his wife at their home in Lebanon, expecting to see her the next day. Little did he know he would find himself stuck on a river in the middle of one of the biggest fires in Oregon history.
It was Monday, Sept. 8, and Pomeroy, a dam operator at Detroit,…