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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
Fire or volcano? Oregon blaze sparks eruption comparisons
Health concerns
from smoke and
ash as fi res burn
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
and NICHOLAS K.
GERANIOS
Associated Press
TROUTDALE — People
in Oregon covered their faces
with scarves to keep choking
ash from wildfi res from fi lling
their lungs and wiped the soot
from windshields, similar to
what long-time residents said
they had to do in 1980 during
the volcanic eruption of Mount
St. Helens.
The growing blaze east of
Portland, in the scenic Colum-
bia River Gorge, was one of
dozens of wildfi res in western
U.S. states that sent smoke into
cities from Seattle to Denver
— prompting health warnings
and cancellations of outdoor
activities for children by many
school districts.
The 16-square mile fi re east
of Portland forced hundreds of
home evacuations. And embers
from the fi re drifted across the
Columbia River — sparking
blazes in neighboring Wash-
ington state. People shielded
their faces and authorities in
the Northwest urged drivers to
use headlights during the day to
Genna Martin/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A wildfire continues to burn on the Oregon side of the Co-
lumbia River Gorge near Cascade Locks and the Bridge
of the Gods. The wildfire shut down part of Interstate 84.
increase visibility.
“I haven’t seen ash fall like
this in the Portland metro area
in my 18 years as a fi refi ghter,”
said Damon Simmons, with
the fi re incident management
team for the Oregon State Fire
Marshal.
Joanna Fisher walked to
work Tuesday at a Troutdale
naturopathic clinic with Calla
Wanser, who was wearing a red
bandana around her mouth.
“You can’t really stand out-
side without getting rained on”
by ash, Fisher said.
The only comparison peo-
ple could come up with was the
eruption of Mount St. Helens in
nearby southwest Washington
more than 35 years ago.
“In 1980, we had a couple of
signifi cant ash falls here in the
Portland area and this is very
reminiscent of what we saw in
the ash fall in those days,” said
Don Hamilton, a spokesman
for the Oregon Department of
Transportation. “The particu-
late matter that shows up on the
cars, it gets in your hair, it gets
in your eyes, it’s all over the
place like it was in those days.”
A closure of one section of
Interstate 84 because of thick
smoke and falling ash was
extended 30 miles east of Port-
land while the Coast Guard
closed about 20 miles of the
Columbia River in the same
area.
The National Interagency
Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, a
federal agency that coordinates
wildfi re-fi ghting, said 80 large
fi res were burning on 2,200
square miles in nine Western
states.
A fast-moving wildfi re in
northern Utah swept down a
canyon Tuesday morning —
destroying structures, forc-
ing evacuations and closing
highways.
A least fi ve homes burned
and more than 1,000 people
were evacuated as high winds
fed the fl ames in the canyon
north of Salt Lake City. Thick
black smoke closed parts of two
highways as fi refi ghters strug-
gled to fi ght the blaze fueled by
winds gust at up to 40 mph.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
70
56
57
Mostly cloudy; areas of
fog late
ALMANAC
New
Salem
62/83
Newport
56/66
Sep 19
Full
Sep 27
Baker
52/91
Burns
52/87
Lakeview
53/81
Ashland
63/81
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017
Tonight's Sky: Full 'Corn' Moon at 12:03 a.m. The
Harvest Moon will be on Oct. 5, nearest the autumnal
equinox on Sept. 22.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
8:54 a.m.
9:16 p.m.
Low
-0.6 ft.
0.3 ft.
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
94
89
70
84
67
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89
86
68
70
Today
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Thu.
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58
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59
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61
60
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Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Yakima
Hi
86
89
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87
87
72
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86
87
92
Today
Lo
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63
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Memphis
Miami
Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC
La Grande
55/88
Ontario
59/92
Klamath Falls
53/77
Astoria
Oct. 26, 1935 — Sept. 1, 2017
Gabriel Pananyoti Anastasiadis was born to Alaska every summer with the Fishhawk
in Kato Thothoraki, Greece on Oct. 26, 1935, crew.
He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Katie;
to Panayoti and Sofi a Anastasiadis. He passed
away at his son’s house in Portland, Oregon, on daughter Sophia Anastasiadis Jacobs and son-
in-law Brit Jacobs; son Nik Anastasi-
Sept. 1, 2017, surrounded by his fam-
adis and daughter-in-law, Shannon
ily and loved ones.
Anastasiadis; and seven grandchil-
Gabe was raised in Thessaloniki,
dren, Laura and Gabe Anastasiadis,
Greece while attending school, and
Lane, Leah, Nicholas, Christopher
served in the Greek military for two
and Jonathan Jacobs.
years. He then became an operator
Gabe led a simple way of life, the
and mechanic of heavy machinery in
less complicated the better, and that is
Thessaloniki, during which time he
how he liked it. If you didn’t fi nd him
met his future wife, Ekaterini (Katie)
in his favorite recliner at home enjoy-
Chukalis. Gabe and Katie were mar-
ing sports, “60 Minutes” or “Jeop-
ried on Sept. 24, 1961, and had two
Gabriel
ardy,” you would see him at the Elks
children, Sophia and Nikolaos.
Anastasiadis
on Tuesday or Friday nights playing
They moved to America in 1971
pool. He retired, several times, yet
for a better way of life, making Asto-
ria their home. Gabe came to know the fi shing continued his morning ritual of going down to
community as a way of life; working in the can- Fishhawk for a cup of coffee with the guys, and
neries and cold storages. He was a mechanic to show them a thing or two about what needed
for Bumble Bee, Bornstein Seafood and Fish- fi xing.
Memorial donations can be made to the Clat-
hawk Fisheries. While working for his boss and
friend, Steve Fick, he especially enjoyed going sop County Animal Shelter.
Roseburg
64/81
Brookings
58/65
Oct 5
John Day
59/88
Bend
59/84
Medford
63/80
UNDER THE SKY
Today
Hi Lo
74 55
76 63
65 52
82 54
70 49
68 50
90 66
66 44
88 75
69 49
71 49
102 79
86 67
75 54
90 79
74 51
83 68
74 60
77 54
72 60
70 52
96 69
77 65
85 63
68 59
Prineville
57/88
Lebanon
62/83
Eugene
59/79
First
Pendleton
63/89
The Dalles
68/87
Portland
65/81
Gabriel Pananyoti Anastasiadis
Rather cloudy and
comfortable
Mostly cloudy
Tillamook
59/70
Sunset tonight ........................... 7:44 p.m.
Sunrise Thursday ........................ 6:44 a.m. Coos Bay
Moonrise today .......................... 8:15 p.m. 58/68
Moonset today ............................ 7:00 a.m.
High
8.3 ft.
8.1 ft.
Mostly cloudy
72
53
Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
57/70
SUN AND MOON
Time
2:28 a.m.
3:05 p.m.
67
52
have been forced to evacuate.
Others have been warned to get
ready as fl ames burn trees and
brush in one of the state’s big-
gest tourist attractions.
Authorities say they believe
the blaze, which started Satur-
day, was caused by a 15-year-
old boy and friends using fi re-
works. They’ve identifi ed
a suspect but have made no
arrests.
Gov. Kate Brown visited the
fi re scene Tuesday as ash fell
around her.
The fi re spread 13 miles
in 16 hours, pushed by winds
overnight that ranged from 30
mph to 40 mph in tinder-dry
conditions, Brown said.
“It looks like there has been
a devastating impact on the
Gorge,” she said, speaking of
the renowned Columbia River
Gorge, famous for its hiking
and spectacular vistas.
A total of 600 Oregon
National Guard troops have
been called up to fi ght more
than a dozen blazes across Ore-
gon, including a much larger
blaze in southwest Oregon in
a rural area along the Califor-
nia border.
Geranios reported from
Spokane, Washington. Associ-
ated Press writers Phuong Le
in Seattle, Matt Volz in Hel-
ena, Montana, and Sudhin
Thanawala in San Francisco
contributed to this report.
OBITUARY
SUNDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Precipitation
Tuesday ............................................ 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 0.00"
Normal month to date ....................... 0.30"
Year to date .................................... 50.06"
Normal year to date ........................ 38.40"
Sep 12
69
52
Fog in the a.m.;
otherwise, mostly cloudy
Astoria through Tuesday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 72°/57°
Normal high/low ........................... 69°/51°
Record high ............................ 87° in 2014
Record low ............................. 43° in 1969
Last
SATURDAY
In Washington state the U.S.
Department of Defense agreed
to assign 200 active-duty sol-
diers to help fi ght a wildfi re.
Civilian fi refi ghting com-
manders said Tuesday the sol-
diers from Joint Base Lewis
McChord, Washington, would
undergo four days of training
and then be sent to a complex
of 14 wildfi res in southern Ore-
gon’s Umpqua National For-
est that have burned 47 square
miles.
And a wildfi re near Mount
Rainier National Park in Wash-
ington state grew to more than
29 square miles and heavy
smoke blanketed many cities in
Washington state. A portion of
the park was closed.
Mandatory
evacuations
were called for the fi re near
Mount Rainier, including the
Crystal Mountain ski resort,
which closed Monday because
of smoke.
The air quality in Spokane,
Washington, was rated as haz-
ardous Tuesday morning. The
National Weather Service says
it was likely to get worse as
wind shifts bring in smoke
from fi res in Canada, Montana,
Oregon and Washington.
Air quality alerts were
issued for parts of Idaho as
well.
In Oregon, people living in
about 700 homes in and around
the Columbia River Gorge
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Sept. 5, 2017
GODWIN, Janet Chris-
tine, 95, of Warrenton , died
in
Wheeler.
Caldwell’s
Luce-Layton Mortuary in
Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
Sept. 4, 2017
THOMAS, Vadas Lucille,
84, of Seaside, died in Sea-
side. Hughes-Ransom Mor-
tuary & Crematory of Asto-
ria/Seaside is in charge of the
arrangements.
BAUM, Joy Irene, 87,
of Seaside, died in Seaside.
Ocean View Funeral & Cre-
mation Service of Astoria
is in charge of the
arrangements.
ON THE RECORD
DUII
• At 8:06 p.m. Thursday,
Tonjia Kay Christian, 66, of
Astoria, was arrested by the
Warrenton Police Depart-
ment on SE Second Street and
charged with driving under the
infl uence of intoxicants.
• At 5:08 a.m. Friday, Sean
Gordon Holcombe, 34, of
Astoria, was arrested by the
Astoria Police Department on
Shively Park Road and charged
with DUII. His blood alcohol
content was 0.16 percent.
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sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
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DEATHS
• At 1:13 a.m. Saturday,
William Pinkstaff, 24, of Asto-
ria, was arrested by the Seaside
Police Department at Prom
and Oceanway Street and
charged with DUII, recklessly
endangering another person
and resisting arrest.
• At 4:20 p.m. Monday,
Robert Lagtry Robinson, 40,
of Puyallup, Washington,
was arrested by the Clatsop
County Sheriff’s Offi ce near
Sunset Beach and charged
with DUII.
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City Hall, 225. S. Main St.
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Hall, 989 Broadway.
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p.m., City Hall, 698 Pacifi c
Way.
THURSDAY
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a.m., annual and regular
board meeting, NOHA
Offi ce, 147 S. Main Ave.,
Warrenton.
Seaside Parks Advisory
Committee, 7 p.m., City Hall,
989 Broadway.
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