Sparky ready
to enter wild
forests again
SPOKANE (AP) — Even as a
wildfire closed In on their
homes, residents of the Ponder
nsa subdivision took, the time
to direct wildlife rescuers to a
frightened and injured black
bear
As a result. Sparky is alive
and neurly recovered from
burns suffered In the fires that
swept through Eastern Wash
ington six weeks ago He'll
soon he released to a new
home
When Lorraine Durick of the
Wild Animal Clinic first saw
Sparky, he was clinging to the
top branches of a pine tree near
the Spokane Valley subdlvi
sion.
Mi! was shaking trom ex
hausiinn and Iright," Durick
said.
She and her husband. Mi
chael Durick, founded the non
profit clinic .it Monroe l.'t years
ago to treat sick, injured and or
[ihaned wildlife m Washington
stall).
Sparky had a number of first
and second degree burns, in
cluding ones on his paws and
rump
After treatment, he will he re
Ie a s e d. p r o b a h1y near
Okanogan rather than in his
fire-damaged former home
range. Durick said.
"We were really concerned
for a while about infei lion,
pneumonia and problems with
Ins lungs because of smoke."
I turn k said
SpokAnimal CI A K Iv, anoth
er licensed animal rehabilitator.
rescued a lost lynx, three badly
burned horses and a burned cat
during tin; October fires Direc
tor (fail Mackie said she didn't
even know the Wild Animal
Clinic people had traveled to
the area because of the fires,
hut holds them in high regard
rhey're willing to take on
things that other people can't,"
Mackie said of the Durii ks
"They're wonderful people,
and they do a really good job "
During the Oi l lf> fires, the
clinic’s volunteers raced from
one threatened area to another,
rescuing iici'r, raccoons ami
horses They wort: in thn Pon
derosa area when they hoard a
( ill/on's hand radio message
alxiul a hlui k bear seen fleeing
the flames
People working feverishly to
save their homes slopped long
enough to point the workers to
ward the txiar in liio pine tree,
wliere tie had climbed to es
cape the fire burning the near
by woods. Durick wild
Clinic employees hit the 500
pound bear witli tranquili/.er
darts, then loaded him into a
horse trailer for the six-hour
trip to the clinic He was given
strong antibiotics for two
weeks
The clinic treats 1,000 to
1,500 animals a year Few of its
rescues ure us emotional as
what staff members and volun
teers experienced during the
fires. Durick said.
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(AP) Police in
vestigators plan lo
use LINA lusts in an attempt to
link a man being hold on unre
lated charges to two rape-kill
ings in the Portland aroa 10
years ago
Portland police detective
Mike Hofley said Monday thut
Alvin Harold Brown. 3fi. is u
suspor t in the deaths of four
women who disappeared over a
30-day period In the spring of
1 OH 1
Brown was arrested Thanks
giving Day on third-degree rnh
herv anil aggravated theft
charges The following day.
blood was drawn from him to
determine if his DNA genetic
makeup matches that found In
semen in the remains of Kim
herlv Ann Stevens. 17. and
Norene K Davis. .11
Stevens disappeared on Mav
H. 1‘tfll. while walking to her
boyfriend's house Her remains
were found two days later, on
Mother’* Day. near a southwest
Portland ( hurt h She had lieen
strangled
Davis, a bartender at a [tea
vurton area cocktail lounge,
disappeared May 1H after re
ceiving a phone cull at work
telling her that the friend of a
roommate had lieen in an act i
dent and needed help There
had been no aci ident Her body
was found a few hours later in
a wooded area in Tigard
DNA tests could not lie used
as evidence in the other two
deaths be< ause of the length of
time between the women's
deaths and the discovery of
their bodies. Hefley and Wash
ington (lounty sheriff s deter
live Paul l.a/enbv said at a
news i onferem e
Melina Crist. 17, was report
ed missing May Ti, after
her mother dropped her olt .it
the Sylvania campus of Port
Kind .Community College Her
skull was found by construe
lion workers in southwest I'ort
land .! years later
Sheila Burnett, 57, disap
peared May 2*1, 1 OH 1 . after
leaving a note to tier husband
saving their son had fated in a
traffic ai cldent and she was
leaving with someone who had
offered her a ride Again, there
w as no accident
Burnett's remains were found
by police beneath a piece of
sheet metal in the hack yard of
a I igcircf home last August The
home had been rented by
Brown at the time of Burnett's
disappearance. Hedies said
In about the last year and a
half, clue to new tec hnology in
solving DNA, Detective l.ii/en
by and I got together and liegan
preparing an affidavit to sel/e
Alan Brown's blood spec ideal
Is for DNA testing. Mefley
said
Slovens and Davis had been
raped. Hailey salt! InvuMlga
lurs wore unable to determine If
the other two women were
raped
Brown was arraigned Mon
day in Multnomah County Or
coil Court on the aggravated
theft and robbery c harges
lodge Am or Haggerty ordered
ball to remain at $1 million
Brown s court-appointed at
torney, Ingrid Swenson, argued
[bat the ball was exi essive con
sideling tile charges But depu
ty district attorney Cregg l.owe
said Brown Is a suspect In mul
tiple murders When Brown
wax arrested, lie was packing
and told investigators that be
vs as moving to Idaho, l.owe
salit
l.owe also noted that the
lOfll murders incurred while
Brown was tree oil bail on a
rape i barge
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