Rebuilding home — and a life — 5 years after fires changed everything

Rebuilding home — and a life — 5 years after fires changed everything

Find all stories in the OPB series “Labor Day fires: Five years later” here.When Rachelle McMaster lived at the Salmon River Mobile Village in Otis, a town outside Lincoln City, the traffic from a nearby highway wasn’t quite as loud.“There were more trees,” McMaster recalled, looking out at what is now a barren field, with one large, dead tree looming at the park’s edge.Trees and shrubs used to soften the highway noise. Then on Sept. 7, 2020, th…