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Fire: Dispensary will remain closed during the investigation
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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’
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“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.”
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‘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
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