THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2016
Cascadia Rising gives lessons
in seismic preparedness
Four-day
exercise for
quake, tsunami
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — In one of the
irst drills in a four-day exercise
to test Oregon’s preparedness
for a catastrophic earthquake,
the Oregon Army National
Guard whisked the governor
away in a helicopter to survey
the damage.
While the drills were instruc-
tional on better ways to prepare,
people familiar with federal
modeling of a 9.0 or great-
er-magnitude earthquake say
the exercise tested an optimis-
tic scenario.
“The notion that they are
going to spin up in a helicopter
on the irst day is probably unre-
alistic,” said state Sen. Brian
Boquist, R-Dallas, chairman of
the Senate Committee on Vet-
erans and Emergency Prepared-
ness. “We probably aren’t going
to have any fuel to do anything.”
The Cascadia Rising exer-
cise tested a scenario in which a
massive quake strikes and dam-
ages 10,000 Paciic Northwest
buildings, bridges and struc-
tures; forces more than 10,000
people into shelters; and causes
about $50 billion in economic
damages.
Geologists believe the
Paciic Northwest is at risk of a
9.0 or greater-magnitude earth-
quake in the Cascadia Subduc-
tion Zone. About 15 million
people live in the subduction
zone, which is roughly on the
west of the Willamette Val-
ley from British Columbia to
Northern California.
Catastrophic disaster
The four-day simulation
of the earthquake and tsunami
started Tuesday, with Gov. Kate
Brown declaring a catastrophic
disaster and notifying federal
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An Idaho Army National Guard helicopter takes off after simulating a patient transport
to a field hospital at Astoria Middle School Tuesday as part of the statewide Cascadia
Rising earthquake exercise.
and out-of-state authorities of
the need for assistance.
Dozens of drills around the
state were held in the follow-
ing days.
Portland Fire and Rescue
and the Air Force Reserve per-
formed joint rescue and recov-
ery operations, such as mass
casualty treatment, rooftop
extraction and collapsed space
rescue operation.
In Warrenton, about 800 sol-
diers assembled at Camp Rilea
and ran through a series of simu-
lated rescue operations. Soldiers
moved and broke up heavy boul-
ders from a rubble pile to reach
victims. They practiced bringing
casualties to a centralized site
and checked the area for chem-
ical, biological, radiological,
nuclear and explosive materials
while decontaminating people
suspected of exposure.
Meanwhile, county emer-
gency operations staff prac-
ticed communicating and coor-
dinating efforts with local
agencies and military person-
nel. They performed successful
amateur radio operations with
other emergency responders in
the state and as far as Bothell,
Washington.
Weeks without
electricity
With the possibility of
weeks without electricity, ama-
teur radios may be the only
way for emergency respond-
ers to communicate, said Cory
Grogan, a spokesman for the
Oregon Ofice of Emergency
Management.
“It’s really clear that there is
more work to be done in terms
of being prepared, thinking
through what you need to have
in place in terms of folks ready
to rock and roll and ready to go,”
Brown said. “The reality is that,
for example, for our National
Guardsmen and women, we
may only be able to activate
20 to 50 percent of them, and
so what other resources can we
deploy? How can we make sure
we have the resources and tools
we need as quickly as possible
in this type of situation?”
By NANCY McCARTHY
The Daily Astorian
Grogan said one thing he
learned during the exercise was
the need to develop scripted
messages to streamline the pro-
cess of notifying residents that
they need to boil water and
communicate other life-saving
information.
“You’re hearing a lot about
the major mechanical aspects of
this but those irst 36 to 72 hours
where the life-saving measures
are really going to be had is
neighbor-to-neighbor looking
out for each other, being able to
assist, knowing that they have
got those personal readiness kits
ready as they wait out that fed-
eral response,” said Maj. Gen.
Michael Stencel, the adjutant
general of Oregon. “Again a
lot of roads and infrastructure is
going to be coming down, and
we are going to be relying on
people to be able to look out for
themselves and help their neigh-
bor until that major logistical
response is able to get on scene
and take us to the next level.”
Erick Bengel contributed to
this report.
SEASIDE — The Sea-
side Carousel Mall is for sale
with an asking price of $4.1
million.
An entire city block, bor-
dered by Broadway, Edge-
wood, Oceanway and Down-
ing streets, is included in the
sale, said Thomas McDow-
ell, senior commercial real
estate broker at Norris &
Stevens in Portland. His
listing partner is Raymond
Duchek.
The total 33,106-square-
foot area contains 21 shops,
as well as the full-size car-
ousel for which the mall is
named. Current store leases
will be maintained and
assigned to the new owner,
McDowell said.
Zoned as commercial
resort, the one-story building
could go to four stories if the
next owner wants to enlarge
it, he added.
Although he declined to
reveal the amount of income
the mall produces annually,
he said it was “very good”
and that the mall has no debt.
Economic details will be
released to a serious buyer
after a conidentiality agree-
ment is signed.
The mall will be marketed
to investors on the West
Coast, as well as nationally
and internationally.
Developed by Port-
land businessman Raymond
Arthur Dodge in 1985, the
mall stayed in the family
even after Dodge’s death last
year. The mall was built on
the site of the old Bungalow
Dance Hall, which began
operating in the 1920s and
was a draw for big dance
bands in the 1940s.
When the mall irst was
built, a small, “portable” car-
ousel, which traveled occa-
sionally to other destina-
tions, was installed.
Later, however, a Dodge
family member, who espe-
cially loved carousels, hired
a San Francisco company
to build a larger, permanent
carousel for the mall. It was
installed in 1990.
Instead of only horses, the
carousel also includes rab-
bits, cats, reindeer, ostriches,
a pig, bear and sea horse.
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