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DailyAstorian.com // WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2016
143RD YEAR, NO. 240
ONE DOLLAR
Letting
Oregon
LNG off
the hook
CASCADIA RISING
Port debates whether
to pursue sublease
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
An Idaho Army National Guard helicopter prepares to transport military personnel to Camp Rilea during a training exercise for
Cascadia Rising on Tuesday at Astoria Middle School.
‘IT’S JUST GONNA
BE A BAD DAY’
Columbia Memorial
prepares for Cascadia
with ield hospital drill
Port of Astoria Commissioners are still
hung up on whether to let Oregon LNG out
of its sublease of more than 90 acres on the
Skipanon Peninsula.
Richard Glick, an attorney for LNG
Development Co., sent the Port a letter in
April asking the agency to terminate a sub-
lease with the company, which runs 25 more
years. The company announced in April it
was abandoning a highly controversial lique-
ied natural gas termi-
nal in Warrenton and
pipeline across Clatsop
County to Woodland,
Washington.
Commissioners dis-
cussed the topic during
a Tuesday workshop.
“Their position is
there is no Oregon
LNG,” Jim Knight, the
Port’s executive direc-
Jim
tor, said of the contact
Knight
he’s had with Glick.
“The corporation is defunct. There is nobody
to go back to at Oregon LNG to renegotiate
anything within this. The position from the
attorney is that there’s been no work done on
the property.”
See PORT, Page 10A
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
mid the catastrophic damage
that a Cascadia earthquake and
tsunami will inlict on Asto-
ria, Columbia Memorial Hospi-
tal may be a shambles and unable to treat
patients on site.
That’s one of many hard realities brought
home this week by Cascadia Rising, a four-
day series of interagency disaster prepared-
ness exercises taking place throughout Ore-
gon and Washington.
On Tuesday, Columbia Memorial staff
practiced setting up a ield hospital in the out-
ield of Astoria Middle School, the agency’s
designated evacuation spot for a Cascadia
Subduction Zone rupture.
When the “Big One” happens, a ield hos-
pital — complete with cots, canopies, a large
military-grade tent and an emergency opera-
tions area — may be the city’s only medical
center for several days.
During the simulation, hospital staff were
asked to picture the following scenario:
Columbia Memorial’s main building has
sustained structural damage along with the
cancer center, which may be releasing radio-
active material. The electrical system is rely-
ing on emergency power. Water pipes have
ruptured, reducing the water supply by 50
percent. The hospital has had to relocate up
the hill to the middle school.
With assistance from Medix, the Astoria
Fire Department, military personnel and state
medical agencies, Columbia Memorial’s staff
ran through the hospital’s incident command
Councilor
warns of
development
threat on river
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Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Taylor Hines, paramedic intern, wheels a pretend patient on a stretcher and into an
ambulance during a field hospital simulation for Cascadia Rising at Astoria Middle
School on Tuesday.
system, which emergency responders use to
manage disaster-style situations.
“We want it to be realistic, because that
helps them visualize,” said Eric Swanson, the
emergency manager for Tillamook Regional
Medical Center who evaluated the hospital’s
performance.
Drill to learn
Katrina McPherson, vice president of
operations for CMH Medical Group, served
as commander and assigned roles to each of
her team members: one person to take charge
of medical care (inpatient, outpatient, casual-
ties, mental health); another to oversee equip-
ment and infrastructure (power, water, sewer
and others); a third person to establish secu-
rity; and so on.
Volunteers portrayed patients experiencing
injury, trauma, panic and grief, while the hos-
pital crew and medical workers from Oregon
Health Authority, Oregon Disaster Medical
Team and U.S Army and Air guards triaged
the patients, assessing whether their wounds
required immediate attention or could be seen
to later.
Very quickly, the staff began to see the
gaps in their readiness.
Price wants to inish
Riverfront Vision Plan
By DERRICK DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
Astoria City Councilor Cindy Price has
warned that the city is vulnerable to overde-
velopment near the Columbia River down-
town unless the Riverfront Vision Plan is
completed.
The City Council has revised land-
use guidelines and restricted development
along three of four stretches of the river
between the Port of Astoria and Alderbook.
But the inal and possibly most critical sec-
tion — the Urban Core between Second
Street and 16th Street downtown — has not
been drafted and there is no timetable to do
the work.
See DRILL, Page 10A
See COUNCILOR, Page 10A
Clinton seizes historic win with triumph in California
By KATHLEEN
HENNESSEY
and LISA LERER
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Powered
by a solid triumph in Califor-
nia, Hillary Clinton declared
victory in her yearlong battle
for the heart of the Democratic
Party, seizing her place in his-
tory and setting out on the dif-
icult task of fusing a frac-
tured party to confront Donald
Trump.
Clinton cruised to easy vic-
tories in four of the six state
contests Tuesday. With each
win she further solidiied
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ defeat
and dashed his already slim
chances of using the last night
of state contests to refuel his
lagging bid.
The victories allowed Clin-
ton to celebrate her long-
sought “milestone” — the
irst woman poised to lead a
major political party’s presi-
dential ticket. Standing before
a lag-waving crowd in Brook-
lyn, the former secretary of
state soaked up the cheers and
beamed.
“Barriers can come down.
Justice and equality can win,”
she said. “This campaign is
about making sure there are no
ceilings, no limits on any of us.
This is our moment to come
together.”
Clinton had already secured
the delegates needed for the
nomination before Tuesday’s
contests, according to an Asso-
ciated Press tally. Still, Sand-
ers had hoped to use a vic-
tory in California to persuade
party insiders to switch their
allegiances. Sanders picked
up wins in Montana and North
Dakota, but Clinton won sub-
stantially in California.
Sanders nonetheless vowed
to continue to his campaign to
the last contest in the District
of Columbia next Tuesday.
“The struggle continues,”
he said.
California win
Clinton’s victory in Cali-
fornia assured her a majority
of pledged delegates — those
See CLINTON, Page 3A
AP Photo/Julio Cortez
Former President Bill Clinton, left, stands on stage with
his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clin-
ton, center, and their daughter, Chelsea Clinton, after Hil-
ary Clinton spoke during a presidential primary election
night rally, Tuesday in New York.