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Wednesday, July 19, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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ECLIPSE: Traffic
is expected to be
very heavy
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a longer exposure to events,
but spreading out arrivals
may lower the intensity of
the event.
Sisters’ alternate route
will be in action through-
out the period leading up to
and immediately after the
eclipse, with extra personnel
out to manage traffic impacts
— to the degree that that is
possible.
Sgt. Nathan Garibay,
of the Deschutes County
Sheriff’s Office, who serves
as the county’s emergency
services manager, says that
there will be at least a cou-
ple hundred thousand more
people in the county than
usual during the run-up to
the eclipse, to a total of about
412,000 people. That’s a
minimum.
“We’re really confident
that this is our bottom num-
ber,” he said. “We’re build-
ing contingencies on a much
higher number.”
Weather could affect the
number of people in the area.
If there is predicted cloud
cover on the coast and in the
Valley, there will likely be an
influx of day-trippers chas-
ing the opportunity to view
the eclipse.
The influx at the height
of fire season has officials
concerned.
“It’s just going to increase
our opportunity for starts,”
said Garibay.
Another concern is that
traffic will be so heavy that it
will be difficult to respond to
accidents and breakdowns on
the roads.
Sisters Deputy Fire Chief
Tim Craig said that the dis-
trict will staff up for the days
leading up to the event so
that all the ambulances in the
district are fully staffed. But
traffic may impede their abil-
ity to respond, especially on
the Santiam Pass.
“One of our big concerns
is being able to get ambu-
lances up there,” he said.
However, since the larg-
est volume of calls is in the
immediate Sisters area, the
district is not planning at this
time to stage an ambulance
up Highway 20 to the west.
“We’re going to keep our
ambulances mobile,” Craig
said.
Sisters Fire Chief Roger
Johnson recommended that
tow trucks be staged along
the highway to make it faster
and easier to clear a wreck or
a breakdown.
Black Butte Ranch will
also have two ambulances
on duty. The Ranch itself —
which will have 6,000 people
aboard that weekend — will
be closed to the general
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