 Statesman Journal (blog) | Briefly NORTHWEST SILVERTON â€" Fire ignited hundreds of gallons of vegetable oil and used motor oil in a Silverton storage yard, sending up black smoke visible for miles. Fire Capt. Ed Grambusch said burning vegetable oil that spilled from plastic barrels “looked like ... Hundreds of gallons of vegetable, motor oil catch fire in Silverton Fire east of Salem, Ore., torches vegetable oil, motor oil; 'looked like lava' 1200 gallons of oil burned in Silverton fire |