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2A | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2020 | APPEAL TRIBUNE Address: P.O. Box 13009, Salem, OR 97309 Phone: 503-399-6773 Fax: 503-399-6706 Email: sanews@salem.gannett.com Web site: www.SilvertonAppeal.com Staff News Director Don Currie 503-399-6655 dcurrie@statesmanjournal.com Advertising Westsmb@gannett.com Deadlines News: 4 p.m. Thursday Letters: 4 p.m. Thursday Obituaries: 11 a.m. Friday Display Advertising: 4 p.m. Wednesday Legals: 3 p.m. Wednesday Classifieds: 4 p.m. Friday News Tips U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden look a metal that was burned off a car in the Beachie Creek Fire on Saturday in Gates. ABIGAIL DOLLINS/STATESMAN JOURNAL Senators pledge to look into cause of wildfires The Appeal Tribune encourages suggestions for local stories. Email the newsroom, submit letters to the editor and send announcements to sanews@salem.gannett.com or call 503-399-6773. Classifieds: call 503-399-6789 Retail: call 503-399-6602 Legal: call 503-399-6789 Missed Delivery? 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Bill Poehler Salem Statesman Journal USA TODAY NETWORK GATES – The senators had barely got- ten out of their cars before being pep- pered with questions about why the electricity wasn’t shut off. There were many questions asked of U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Mer- kley in their tours of wildfire damage in Gates and Mill City on Saturday after- noon, many about the cleanup in the af- termath of the historic wildfires that de- stroyed much of the Santiam Canyon communities . In touring the communities, the sen- ators and an assembled group of local leaders saw first-hand melted cars, de- stroyed homes and churches that had been burned to rubble. But what many wanted to know about were the downed power lines in the area that were blamed for 13 spot fires. “It’s very clear you got to understand what went wrong in order to have any possible chance of preventing it from happening again,” Merkley said. “And so that’s the first step, is the full investiga- tion of what went wrong, what started the fires.” The Santiam Fire started Sept. 8 among high winds and combined with the Beachie Creek Fire from farther north, destroying nearly 500 homes and killing five people in the Santiam Can- yon. Pacific Power, which supplies power to those communities, said this week the area wasn’t an area designated to be in a public safety power shutoff area. Downed power lines have been blamed for 1,500 wildfires in California in the past six years. “We’re going to get to the bottom of it because this has gone on again and again,” Wyden said. “The first time I got out of the car, that was the question, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it. That’s been the longest running battle since the Trojan War, the power compa- nies and the regulators.” Mill City Mayor Tim Kirsch said he is more concerned about forest manage- ment practices, something he said Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation (All Periodicals Publications Except Requester Publications) 1. Publication Title 2. Publication Number SILVERTON APPEAL 4 9 6 4. Issue Frequency 3. Filing Date - 10/1/2020 8 6 0 5. Number of Issues Published Annually 6. Annual Subscription Price 52 Weekly $38.13 7. Complete Mailing Address of Known Office of Publication (Not printer) (Street, city, county, state, and ZIP+4 ® ) Contact Person 340 Vista Ave SE Suite 200, Salem, Marion, OR 97302 Telephone (Include area code) Mike Murphy 317-444-5381 8. Complete Mailing Address of Headquarters or General Business Office of Publisher (Not printer) P.O. Box 13009, Salem, OR 97309-3009 9. 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Full Name Complete Mailing Address Gannett Co., Inc. 7950 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA 22107 many locals believe was better managed when forests in the Santiam Canyon were logged more heavily until the 1990s. Many people believe the thousands of acres of forest scorched in the area were fueled by thick underbrush. Kirsch said he doesn’t think he’s fair to blame the wildfires on the power companies. “If they go to turn the power off every time the wind blows, I’m more con- cerned about that,” Kirsch said. “We’ve been here for a long time, and this is the first time anything like this happened. “ This fire that swept through here came from Beachie Creek. There obvi- ously was a couple of spot fires that came from power lines.” Now that locals are being allowed to return to most of the impacted commu- nities – Breitenbush and Crooked Finger Road remain the only ones still closed as of Saturday night – people are finally able to assess the extent of the damage. Locals raised concerns to the sena- tors about how private citizens will get rid of their fire-damaged debris, local governments like the city of Gates not having the money to pay the up-front costs for fire remediation, and how the water quality in the North Santiam Riv- er will be maintained. Marion County Commissioner Kevin Cameron said Gov. Kate Brown said the state is working on sending 30 crews to clean up the damage from the wildfires. “You have to understand this is not just our canyon, this is the whole state,” Cameron said. “The governor said that they were going to take this one. We got an email last night asking us to sign off by Monday, the state would take this on. And the challenge is telling everyone to be patient.” Wyden said he would try to put di- saster help for the canyon into the coro- navirus relief package the house and senate have long debated. “This is not going to be the last time we’re in this community,” Wyden said, standing next to a melted Dodge Duran- go in Gates. “It’s not one and done. We feel really strongly that when disaster hits Oregon, it’s not just about Portland and Eugene, it’s about rural towns that have a few hundred people, and you don’t turn them into sacrifice zones.” It’s still too early to get a full account- ing for the dollar value of the impacted property, but some estimates have come in. Santiam Canyon School District Su- perintendent Todd Miller said prelimi- nary estimates of the smoke damage suffered by the schools – including the three new buildings to house the high and middle schools – will cost $2.5 mil- lion to clean. “It’s not a bill that we can take,” Miller said. “We don’t want people to come into a new, smoke-smelling school. “That’s the hard part, too, even under the COVID time we were concerned about the kid’s mental health. And now, you take a look at what happened, all of our kids just went through a traumatic experience, so we want to do everything we can to try, even if it is just to get them in for counseling services, we want to make sure we can support them as best as possible right now.” The full amount of damage in the cit- ies including Detroit and Lyons may take years to determine. Wyden and Merkley indicated feder- al help could also come in the form of in- frastructure improvements, including a long-debated sewer system in the re- gion. “This is the first time any kind of di- saster like this has been here,” Kirsch said. “I believe our two senators are very committed to seeing this through. “I see this as an opportunity for us to rebuild and re-modernize our infra- structures and the way that we’re able to proceed.” Bill Poehler covers Marion County for the Statesman Journal. Contact him at bpoehler@statesmanjournal.com or Twitter.com/bpoehler Support local journalism by sub- scribing to the Statesman Journal. Wingett standard by a military unit, and his was highly coveted because of the unit's prominence. Bill turned down a $7,000 offer from a collector before donating it. Memorial service plans have not been finalized by the family, but Bill will be interred at Willamette National Cem- etery in Portland. 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Publication of Statement of Ownership X If the publication is a general publication, publication of this statement is required. Will be printedin the Publication not required. October 07, 2020 issue of this publication. 18. Signature and Title of Editor, Publisher, Business Manager, or Owner Jerry Hill, VP Consumer Services Date 10/1/2020 I certify that all information furnished on this form is true and complete. I understand that anyone who furnishes false or misleading information on this form or who omits material or information requested on the form may be subject to criminal sanctions (including fines and imprisonment) and/or civil sanctions (including civil penalties). PS Form 3526 , July 2014 PSN: 7530-01-000-9931 PRIVACY NOTICE: See our privacy policy on www.usps.com. OR-GCI0472665-01 Bill Wingett joined the Army after the attack on Pearl Harbor and trained as a paratrooper. He was assigned to Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, which most know as the Band of Brothers. CAPI LYNN/STATESMAN JOURNAL
