Editor’s note: Five years ago this month, the Holiday Farm Fire ripped through the McKenzie Valley, destroying hundreds of homes and leaving enduring scars — physical, psychological and on the land itself. This is the second in a series of Lookout Eugene-Springfield stories examining the fire and its aftermath.
Five years on, the nightmares have mostly stopped for Christiana Rainbow Plews. The flashbacks haven’t.
She’ll drive along Highway 126, the same highway she crisscrossed in the hours before she made the decision to evacuate the McKenzie River valley, and she’ll be back to the night the Holiday Farm Fire began…