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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016 Fire: Dispensary will remain closed during the investigation Continued from Page 1A fronting Industry Street. West, 40, and Jacob Alan Magley, 34, were identiied as the two people injured in the ire. Both were listed in serious condi- tion at Legacy Emanuel Med- ical Center’s burn unit. Oei was at the scene when the blast occurred, but was uninjured. Sweet Relief Natural Med- icine, a marijuana dispen- sary, subleases an adjoining upstairs portion of the build- ing facing Portway Street. Sweet Relief co-owner Oscar Nelson said the dispensary also sustained smoke and pos- sible structural damage and will remain closed through the investigation. Astoria Deputy Police Chief Eric Halverson said Higher Level Concentrates has submitted applications through both the Oregon Health Authority and state Liquor Control Commission to be a registered processor of mari- juana products. “There are many ques- tions about what was or was not allowed through those pro- cesses,” Halverson said in a release today. “Information from the investigation, once complete, will likely be sub- mitted to the Clatsop County District Attorney’s Ofice for their review.” Legal status Even though Higher Level Concentrates is unregistered through the Health Authority, the company was allowed to process extracts without crimi- nal liability through the end of the year by submitting a full application. Processors can transfer products to registered medical dispensaries. The dis- pensaries can sell concentrates and edibles to Oregon Medical Marijuana Program patients and primary caregivers. “This is the irst — and I use this term loosely — pro- fessional-type processor that has had such an incident,” said André Ourso, head of the state’s medical marijuana program. Ourso said the Health Authority is awaiting the results of the state ire marshal’s inves- tigation to see if Higher Level Concentrates was following all the rules for processors. The rules include using a closed- loop extraction system and a hydrocarbon-based solvent that is at least 99 percent pure. The extraction must take place in a facility with good ventila- tion that meets building and ire codes. If it is found Higher Level Concentrates wasn’t following the rules, Ourso said, the com- pany could risk not being reg- istered by the Health Authority or licensed through the Liquor Control Commission. Like marijuana dispensa- ries, most processors are trying to go from the medical juris- diction of the Health Authority to licensing under the Liquor Control Commission by the end of the year, in order to access the recreational market. As of Jan. 1, medical dispen- saries can only sell to medical marijuana cardholders. Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian A fire started after an explosion around 6:30 p.m. Wednes- day night in a commercial building at the corner of Industry and Portway streets. The fire started in marijuana-extraction company Higher Level Concentrates and damaged an ad- joining marijuana dispensary, Sweet Relief Natural Medicine. ShakeOut: Tsunami warning is ‘worse than Hood to Coast’ Continued from Page 1A “I feel like slowly everyone is becoming more prepared,” Ipson said. “It’s deinitely something we’ve thought about our entire lives, because ever since elementary school we’ve been doing these walks.” As they headed to the tsuna- mi-safe zone on Ocean Avenue near the RV resort, students and teachers said they felt conident in their preparedness. “At least I know where to go,” senior Nate Coburn said. Some expressed concern about whether bridges and the school building would hold up long enough for them to exit the tsunami zone. “If half of (the bridge) gets knocked down, how are you going to make your way across the broken-up concrete?” math teacher Trent Rollins said while walking across a bridge on 12th Avenue. Jason Boyd, athletic direc- tor and social studies teacher, donned a bright rainsuit for the walk. “If we do have to make this walk, most of the building is not going to be standing, as well as the bridges are not going to be standing,” Boyd said. “So even though we’re telling kids to get to the hill, it may not be as easy as we think it’s going to be.” Though she said she feels prepared, senior and student body oficer Lizzy Barnes said “we might not be able to make it out of our school.” She also worries if children and elderly people will make it to high ground. High school students will be able to “pick up the pace quite Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Lucy Bodner, right, and other Seaside High School stu- dents practice an earthquake drill during The Great Ore- gon ShakeOut on Thursday. Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Students exit the Seaside High School campus during a Tsunami evacuation drill on Thursday. a bit and hustle up there and be okay,” Rollins said. “A lot of people who grow up in this area, they prepare for the big tsunami.” “But the elementary school, I worry about my son that’s over there,” he added. ‘Worse than Hood to Coast’ Student Riley Hebert said an actual tsunami warning is “worse than Hood to Coast.” “It’s straight gridlock,” he said. “Nobody goes anywhere and it’s kind of crazy, but the schools try to teach us what to do.” “When there’s a warning and the sirens go off, everyone jumps in their cars and drives about 45 feet, then realizes everyone else is driving and you can’t go anywhere,” Boyd said. “You have to get out and walk. At least they (students) know where a safe place is.” During the approximately 20-minute walk, some students ran to the front while others took their time. “If there were an actual earthquake, we would all be running,” Barnes said. “We wouldn’t be walking like this.” Once in the safe zone, rain- soaked students squeezed into school buses to return to cam- pus. On the ride back, they sang songs and chatted among them- selves. Despite reservations about the school building’s conditions and Seaside bridges, many students, like sophomore Scott Budig, felt “more or less” prepared. Boyd said it was import- ant for the school to do twice- yearly tsunami walks for new students. “It gives them an option to hopefully survive as opposed to stay in the building and wait for it to get inundated with water and drown,” he said. “If the building’s still standing.” A PPLE T October ASTING 22 ‘It gives them an option to hopefully survive as opposed to stay in the building and wait for it to get inundated with water and drown. If the building’s still standing.’ Jason Boyd athletic director and social studies teacher, speaking of the twice-yearly tsunami walks for new students Last CHIP In of the Year! Saturday October 22 ND 1 4 PM TO Come and show your support at Violet LaPlante Park nd 10 am- 4 pm Fruit $ Trees 15 Great varieties for the coast! T REE S AL off Order bare root for 2017 and save up to 60 % where Arbor Care, Inc. will be doing a tree planting demonstration. 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