Lightning sparks fires in Sisters region

A thunderstorm that rolled across Sisters late Sunday afternoon, August 1, dropped enough lightning strikes to start at least a couple of small blazes.

None of the strikes or fires were in the immediate vicinity of the Sisters community.

According to Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch, 10 fires were started by lightning from the storm in Central Oregon; two more flared up on Monday morning.

The latter two blazes are more than 10 miles north of Sisters in the Geneva area. Both are small; an air tanker was dispatched to fly over one that was about an acre in size, the dispatch center reported.

Ten smokejumpers bailed out over a fire of unknown size in the McKenzie Summit area. The other fires were on the Ochoco National Forest.

Dispatchers were watching for holdover flare-ups from Sunday's storm.