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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1996)
NATIONAL MfWSFHOM AROUMO TMf COUNTRY Nevada fire started by two boys ■ BLAZE: By muiJuy. 5.000 acres wrrr ( unturned and about 100 homes were threatened GENOA. Nev. (AP) — Two bay* started • wind-whipped fire that destroyed four homes forced thou Minis of people to ensiul* and continued to bum out at con trol on Monday near the Heavenly Valley ski resort and 100 expen live homes Douglas County Sheriff Jerry Maple said the hoys, a 1.1 year old from ( kvgon and a U year old lo cal boy. started the blase with gasoline. He said the boys told in vestigators it was an accident 'They were playing with fire, but it was not that they intended to set the mountain on fins." Maple said He said the district attorney would meet with investigators to determine whether the youths could face charges as a result of the fire that started about five miles south of here in the Au tumn Hills subdivision The boys' names were withheld Asked whether the youths' par ents could be forced to pey for fire suppression costs. Maple replied. "Fnwa the average pmoe, hem much am you recoup?" TK.» ftp* hud consumed about S.000 taw by midday and wu throa twang about 100 home* near Mmvonly Valley. in mountain* that loom above tha arm whom tho fins started *■ i nr ding In t - S Furaat Service spokeswomen Jo celyn Biro "Thai'* still tha most threat' •mod area," Mid (Tiff Shaw, an other Forest Service represent* tive. Keru> television station F.OLO bruadcaat an interview with a man who said ha saw the boy* start the Ware "They Ut some gas or paper anti they triad to put can the fire," said the man. who asked that he not be Identified "They tried to kick »<«ne dirt on it. hit that didn’t work. Then they got a bucket but it got way out of hand Then are sew someone run aarua* tha back yard of the bouse yelling. ()h my (aid. oh my God. odl Btl!” An approaching unseeaonal storm was both good and had new*, officials Mid While tern pars!urns were below normal and some precipitation was expected, erratic winds gust log to 40 mpb (annex! the fUwm "1 think, ih*> w«mSm is i hi— inn and a hindrance.” Shaw Mkl Kethiae*s Thompson. a Forest S*r. U • spokeswoman Mid the (be was IS |»nmi t untamed by mid morning. One firefighter wm badly burned and lour other* *ul M amok* innektton Some 3.000 to 4.000 people were evacuated m the Are moved into brush and limber after it broke out at 2 p m Sunday at the base at Kingsbury Grade, located AO miles weith uI Reno Within a fen* hour*, the Are had moved about two mile* west and uphill toward Heavenly Valley, and about three miles north to ward (ana a historic town that's Nevada's first settlement I've lived here alt my Ufa and I know bow these ftrea are." said Stacy TrtvttJ "I grabbed my dogs, my tMnonlh-old atm. my guns, a photo album and safe! a prayer" "I had to turn out all the hot— and all the tattle.” said Unite Sorenson, whoa# family's ranch was threatened by the blase "I could feel the beat and the noise was horrendous. I was running all over the place and the smoke was so black I couldn't see * Study shows babies sleep safer on their backs ■ RESEARCH: Sudden infant death syndrome occurs less frequently in bakes deeping face up WASHINGTON (AP) - The simple act of putting haliow to had on their backs instead of their stomach* may be the ration for a 30 patient drop In suiklan in fant death syndrome in America. a federal study says. Dr. Duane Alexander, director of the National In •titule of Child Health and Human Development, said the (lramatk change in the rale of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, has to be attributed to a campaign to bed twines on their bath "hecauae noth ing else has changed " "This has been one of the simplest and most «fft* live public health interventions ever." said Aleman der He said at least t .MW babies have beam saved in dm United States over the last two years by a "Hack to Sleep" campaign in which parents, care-givers and pediatricians were ail educated on how best to put baby down In Europe. Australia and New Zealand, where the change in sleep position was first tried, the drop in SIDS rata has been even man dramatic, said Alexan der In some countries the number of SIDS deaths mm cut by half "The rate of SIDS in those countries was higher than here.'* aaid Alexander "About five in 1.1W0. compered to about 1.1 per I J(W0 in this OMUttry. So we weren't «ur» that • change in »teep position would have the ume impart But it ha* “ Alexander *aid the Sllfe rate among t hddrun from birth to age t ha* dropped in the United State* to about 75 par 1.000 l*art of the effort included an annual telephone *urvey in which about 1.000 mother* of newborn* were naked how they placed the# baby in the urtb In 1992. 70 percent put the infant on it* Motnach By hurt year'* turvey, *aid Alexander. 29 percent did w> Though there are encouraging tfatistiia of <ucc.aaa. balnea are dill dying of SIDS unnereeaartty. Mid Dr Sally Dec uiwitt Ward of the (hildrwm Hospital law Angiriee "I know tome famtlie* who didn't know of the c hange in recommended deep poatt ton and then kwt a child to SIDS." the Mid "They, of course are ex t remedy dittmught " The moat emotionally wrenching *tory. aaid Ward ia of parent* who practiced the "Bac k to Sleep" »y» tern at home, but who left their heby in a day care center where it died of SIDS while tummy deeping "That wa* extremely hard." the naid Some grandparent*, aunt* and older family mem her* have muted the effort* to change how baby deem. 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