Tiffany Hallmark was in the basement of the Shelton McMurphey Johnson House, Eugene’s historic Victorian mansion, when friends started texting her.
“There’s a fire on the butte. Are you OK?”
Hallmark, the live-in caretaker at the Shelton McMurphey Johnson House, is typically tasked with keeping things in the home clean and organized, in addition to some yard work. But when a fire broke out Monday, Aug. 17, on Skinner Butte, the job changed: She was prepared to try and save a historic mansion from going up in flames…