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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1994)
COMMUNITY Alarm neglect causing deaths By Jim Davis (On*Y t rrxtraki The small, squaw battery dangles loosely from the uncovered smoke alarm in the kitchen hallway of University student Scott Rudi's home Like many people. Rudi and his roommates had difficulties with a smoke alarm that was too sen sitive. Whenever yye cook food that smokes, the alartn will go off," Rudi said "We took the cover of the alarm off and let the battery hang it's easier to get to. It's more accessible. "What really bothered me was it wasn’t until t\so months after we bail moved into this house that we checked the alarms out — all the batteries were dead.” This is an occurrence that Lugene Public Safety Information Director Tim birr said is not uncom mon We are finding more and more incidents of homes yvhere smoke detectors are not present or not operating,” birr said. "People are taking the bat teries out or are forgetting to check the batteries " The lack of proper care for smoke detei tors, birr said, is translating into a higher number of fatali ties by fires. In Oregon Lint vi'.ir, the number of deaths by fire soared to 62. the highest number of such deaths since 1‘iHti Four people died in three fires in Kugene last year This number alone is not startling until compared with the fire-death statistu s in the 1980* After the mandatory installation of smoke deles tors in houses in the late 1970s, fin* deaths in hugene and the state dropped drmn.itn.alU I "here wen* soy eral years in the 1980* without a single fin* death ill hugene In HIM1), the state of Oregon set a record low of !4 fire deaths, but since that time, the fatality rate has been increasing steadily "It is becoming more and more apparent that it is as much a challenge for us in Public Safety to get people to maintain smoke detectors as it was for us in Safety to get the detectors installed niaiulatori ly. Birr said Acting state I ire Marsha! Henry Hanf belies es most fire deaths wore preventable, and he uttrib titod most of the deaths to careless at ts and a lot k of working smoke detectors Hanf urges all Oregonians to install and maintain smoke detei tors in every sleeping area to give an early wanting if a fire in curs Bails for traffic infractions increase By Susanne Steffens Ofogo/i Daily Emerald Many students may soon find themselves contesting citations m court, when bails for traffic infractions increase Feb 1 Citations under the new rules will in many cases double, hi the case of speeding, the fine tor dri \ mg more than 20 miles per hour over the limit will go up from Si tu to $180 "It's obvious that these rules will affect the students finan cially, and I encourage students to oliey the laws, especially bicy clists. who will quickly notice the new changes," Eugene police Sgt Dennis Baker said The Oregon Legislature derid ed last year that the judges have been setting relatively low mini mum bails for traffii. inlraclions. and therefore increased the min imum fsnl required iti connection with traffic v lolatious Baker, together with other police officials and the llugeno courts, is concerned about the effects of tile bail increases and believes the new rules ma> destroy relations between the police and the citizens Officer Bill Jennings said the new bails are just taxes that nobody can afford, and he does not comprehend the drastic im rease "We don't have a mason to jus tif\ those bails The Legislators gave these new rules, and we have no other alternative than to set the !h kets," he said Jennings, who is .1 member o( the traffic unit, said it's the police's mission to help the pub lic. hut lieheves this task now w ill be diffii lilt to at tiieve (iharlene Wallis, court opera tions superv isor, is com timed about the new bails, saving that motorists b.irdlv can pay the existing bails We’ll Fix It While You Wait! 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Wednesday, Jan. 19, 7:30 pm EMU Gumwood Room Free and open to the public UO School of Music's World Music Series presents Folk Music of Greece ZIYIA is a five-member ensemble specializing in the diverse regional styles of rural and urban Greece. Members of the group are Christos Govetas, Beth Cohen, George Chittenden, Lise Liepman, and Dan Auvil. Greek folk dance party after the concert! Friday, Jan. 21 8 p.m. EMU Ballroom $$$ TICKETS $10 Gen Admssion, $8 Students / Seniors, available at EMU Mam Desk or at the door *** FREE Lecture-Demonstration *** Friday, Jan. 21 2 p.m. Beall Concert Hall Co sponsored by UO Otfce oI International Attars. Oregon Humaniies Center. EMU Cultural Forum, Veselo Community Folk Dancers, and Eugene Folklore Socwty For more information, cal 348-2852
