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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. Dei ker said
Authorities were afraid the
fires would take off in the steep
timbered country, so they had
five ail tankers flying round
robin and put 72,000 gallons ot
retardant on the flames, he
said
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