National Guardsmen stationed at the Medford Armory will return home from training Thursday knowing some of their cars have been broken into.

Smoke from the Northern California wildfires that killed seven of their own was still in the air over southwest Oregon as Grayback Forestry firefighters went back into the woods.

As if feeling guilty about sparking lightning-caused fires throughout Jackson and Josephine counties over the weekend, Mother Nature is now giving firefighters a helping hand in battling the blazes.