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Wednesday, January 29, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Ski team earns second-place finish
Sisters Fire District
planning for earthquake
By Rongi Yost
Correspondent
In addition to responding
to fire and medical emergen-
cies, staff with the Sisters-
Camp Sherman Fire District
are dedicating time this win-
ter to ensure the agency and
community are prepared for
the next Cascadia Subduction
Zone earthquake.
The Cascadia Subduction
Zone Fault runs 600 miles
from California to British
Columbia. The fault lies about
70-100 miles off the Oregon
Coast and is responsible for
several 9.0 and above earth-
quakes. The last Cascadia
Subduction Zone earthquake
occurred on January 26, 1700.
Governor Brown is declar-
ing the week of January 26
through February 1 Cascadia
Earthquake Preparedness
Week.
Residents are encouraged
to have a plan for an extended
disaster, and to have supplies
on hand to last two weeks.
Oregon Office of Emergency
Management has information
about how to be <two weeks
ready= on their website at
https://www.oregon.gov/
oem/hazardsprep/Pages/2-
Weeks-Ready.aspx .
Fire Chief Roger Johnson
said, <It is important for us to
ensure we are able to provide
emergency services to those
in need during times of natu-
ral disaster.=
The board of directors and
staff are working together to
ensure the agency and the
community are well prepared
for any type of disaster. While
weather events or wildland
fires occur more frequently,
the basic tenets of disaster
preparedness are the same.
Fire District staff are
focusing on three planning
goals for the coming year.
The three areas are: continu-
ity of operations, community
preparedness, and emergency
actions during the disaster.
Like most agencies and
businesses, the Fire District
receives most of its supplies
and fuel from the west side
of the state. Experts have
identified that many of the
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will be interrupted after a
Cascadia event. The Fire
District is working closely
with Deschutes County
Emergency Management
to ensure that critical ser-
vices and supplies are avail-
able after a Cascadia event.
Materials such as medical
supplies, food for emergency
responders, fuel for vehicles
and heat for the fire station
will be critical. Services such
as power, water and sewer,
telephone and Internet access
and the 911 center, are all
very important services for
emergency responders. The
Fire District expects to expe-
rience an increased demand
for services after a Cascadia
event. Ensuring the agency
is able to receive 911 calls
and has the needed staff
and supplies to render aid is
critical.
The Fire District is also
focusing on community pre-
paredness as a critical link
in limiting the impacts from
a Cascadia event. The Fire
District will host community
forums on preparedness and
will also distribute prepared-
ness information throughout
the coming year.
The Fire District is also
planning to participate in the
Great Oregon ShakeOut exer-
cise in October. The exercise
is the largest earthquake pre-
paredness exercise in the
world. The Fire District is
hopeful that the commu-
nity embraces preparedness
efforts as it can help reduce
the impacts on emergency
responders who will be over-
whelmed during a Cascadia
event.
Lastly, the fire district is
evaluating and updating all
emergency operations pro-
cedures relating to natural
disaster response.
Chief Johnson said,
<We know the emergency
response system will be taxed
during this time. We need to
ensure our staff and volun-
teers are prepared, and have
the resources they need.=
NOW
OPEN!
Sisters boys and girls
alpine ski teams raced in a
slalom race at Mt. Bachelor
on Saturday, January 25, and
the boys team walked away
with a new best finish, and
took second place.
Evan Palmer continued
to ski with a technically
clean style and took fourth
place (105 points). Colton
Seymour stepped up his per-
formance and completed two
fast runs for a ninth-place
finish (61 points). Remaining
scores were: George Chladek
10th place (52 points), Bela
Chladek 11th place (46
points), Corbin Fredland
24th place (24 points), and
Mitchell Griffin 26th (six
points).
<The boys continue to
up their game,= said Coach
Gabe Chladek. <This team of
varsity boys have been work-
ing on their ski racing per-
formance for years, and it9s
really showing this season.=
The girls team was short
a racer, but they skied well
and finished enough runs in
the top 30 to hold onto fifth
place. Sydney Wilkins fin-
ished 19th and earned 15
points for the team. Sydney
is just a sophomore, and her
aggressive skiing this year
has moved her up in the fin-
ish order at every race.
Skylar Wilkins missed a
gate on her first run, but had
a very smooth second run to
finish 24th for seven points.
Piper Adelt was 25th and
earned four points. Freshmen
Tatum and Annie Cohen
keep pushing themselves as
new ski racers and are get-
ting closer to scoring with
every run.
Coach Gabe Chladek told
The Nugget he expects both
Tatum and Annie to move up
in the finish order throughout
the season.
The JV boys took fourth
as a team, and all racers are
improving. Their finish order
is as follows: Simon Rhett
33rd, Christopher Lundgren
44th, Conner Petke 48th,
Corbin Johnson 53rd, Ethan
Eckert 55th, Ian Cash 62nd,
Aiden Eckert 66th, Vicente
Rebolledo 67th, and Ilya
Goheen 68th.
Next up for the Outlaws is
a giant slalom race on Friday,
January 31, and they will
race on the Cliffhanger run
at Mt. Bachelor on Saturday,
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