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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1990)
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Aug. 4, 5, 6, 7 OPEN UNTIL 11:00 pm Canoe on the mill race price s3.60/hour 346-4386 1 395 Franklin Blvd. Now On Sale Strawberry Shortcake Good Thru August 31st It's strawberry time1 And to celebrate, your participating DAIRYQUEEN stores are featuring their famous strawberry shortcake Red. |uicy strawberries, golden pound cake and creamy DAIRY QUEEN soft serve All for just $1 29 WE TREAT YOU RIGHT Regional Bend residents return to ashes of homes HIM) | A I’) Residents sill i'il through the residin' ol their helnngiiigs Monday .liter .1 tor est fire r.u ed through the sub mbs. destroying .Hi houses I ire 1 lews were .ible to hold the line ,1 round the i. too.lire Awbrev Hall lire lor the second straight da\ leading fire offi i nils to believe they 1 an dm lare the blaze 1 untamed I uesday night and 1 ontrolled on Wednesday The blaze broke out Saturday and rated from treetop to tree top ill a swath 1.' miles long and two miles wide Ihe lire split around the laitrada hodge motel, hut drove through three rural subdivisions just a few miles from downtow n, leveling houses in .1 seemingly random pattern B\ Sunday morning, most of the damage was done S i mil lion worth Oregon Department of forestry spokesman David Morman said S-l million of that was at counted for bv file 21) homes and eight outbuildings destroyed b\ the lire, and the rest w as timber I lie number of houses lie stroved was revised downward after off it nils went through the area Sunday night and t hei ked the ruins against tax rolls Mor man said Department of Forestry spokesman Inn l isher said the destruction of buildings was the worst in the state's history since 10:1(3, when a forest fire le\ eleil the i 11y of Handott "It ends one < hapter and an other chapter starts said Don Moreloi k as he and his wife, lerrie looked tm anything that survived the flames in (he house they leased in the Sun rise Village subdiy tsion Little did "That's the way I like my |iork 1 (tops well done." said Moreloi k’s son Brett, as he pulled looked meat from the inside of a freezer turned into an oven by the flames U'liat urn e had been bottles of wine were puddles of melted glass Nothing was left of a wa ter bed but the concrete piers that had held it up Don Moreloi k found a tin sheriff's star that uni e had been part of a costume held it to his i best then dropped it in the ashes Miireloi k said he and his wife had watched the fire ap proai It the hai k of their home before they fled yvith the fcy\ I,mills |ii< lures ,md other me inentos tiles i mild gather in .1 hurts File \\ ind was ini redible Morrioi k -..lid of the turbulom e i re.itilfl In the lire ' 1 told one tel loss the sound WHS like ,1 thousand horses running In Monnun said mans of the houses that burned had shake roots ninth easily caught fire as the flames roared through the trees standing nearby. At the time we built sis years ago. you had to have a shake root and t he\ didn't want any lawn around the plac e. said Pat Thomas, whose house in Sunrise village burned to the ground lie said the requirements were in the homeowners association In laws Mornian said those are |usl the kinds of tilings the Depart men! of Forestr\ recommends against as more people build houses m the forest, w here thin are vulnerable to forest fires "Shake roofs in a forest envi ronment just don’t cut it.'' Mornian said "I'm sure people here have learned that lesson Mornian said the 2.8(H) peo ple who evacuated from 2.0110 households Satunhn night were allowed bar k to tbeir homes Mond.n morning Au thorities reopened major streets m the fire area, ini ludmg the road leading to the Mount Hat helm ski resort Sightseers will be kept out a couple of days to hold down traffic as firefighters continued to move equipment around. Mornian added l'he i ause of the fire re mauled under investigation, but Mornian said arson had been ruled out The fire began near Shevlin I’aik a popular spot for wed dings three miles west of Head It burned south for 12 miles, jumping the 7a foot width of the Desc hides River liy Monday much of the smoke had cleared, leaving the skv blue again as helicopters continued to ferry huge bin kets of water to dump on hot spots A total of 1.435 people 122 fire engines. 7(1 bulldozers, 12 belie opters and six air tankers were working the fire, said I)e pertinent of Forestry spokes man Don I'erguson Although firefighters seemed to be getting the upper hand on the blaze, a National Weather Service meteorologist warned state ,<mi federal agent ies Mon dav that more hot weather was in the forts ast It's a verv volatile situation as lar as the weather goes ." Terrv Marsha said at the brief mg in Salem "We've got hot and drv conditions and now we're going to have to sit around and wait for thunder storms, unfortunately "It's going to he a prettv hairv week iust sitting around and wondering when these things are going to hit State Forestrv Department spokesman Doug Dei ker said at the meeting that this summer has the makings to be one of the worst fire seasons on re cord. "Right now we're seeing fire conditions as bad as we've ever seen them," he said. "We ( mild well be into one of the worst tire seasons we've had in a long time Meanwhile, the 1'inlev Unite tire grew to more than 1.250 ai res on the I lest hides National Forest. That bla/.e w .is si\ miles east of Fa Fine near Newborn I Taler and about 25 miles south of fiend People were evacuated Sun dav from campgrounds and vn cation homes around Hast Fake and Paulina Fake, located m side the i ollapsed volcano, said 1 ' S Forest Service spokes woman (iarrie Summon iiv Mondav the tire had slowed and vs as burning east and southeast awav from the crater and fire officials were considering reopening the road serving the area, she said About 20(1 firefighters were on the fire l ire lines were < ompleted .Mondav morning around a 50 at re fire just outside the com munitv ot (lhilo(|uin. on t' S Ilighwav 07 about ! 1(1 miles south of bend Massive retardant drops In air tankers helped contain two small flies along the Rogue Kiv er Ft miles northwest of (hunts Pass I he area is popular with rafters The llellsgate fire was con tamed at OH acres while the 1 log ( Teek tire w as contained at sis acres. 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