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Bend would be worst-case scenario
command center in big earthquake
Associated Press
BEND — A new state
report says Bend would be
the center of the state’s emer-
gency response in the worst-
case scenario of a cata-
strophic earthquake along the
Cascadia Subduction Zone
off the Oregon Coast.
The Bulletin reported that
the Oregon National Guard
Youth Challenge Program’s
Bend campus is the fallback
site for the state’s Emergency
Coordinating Center if the
command center and two
other locations in Salem are
knocked out.
The Bend site was listed
as backup Emergency Coor-
dinating Center in the state’s
newly revised Cascadia Play-
book, a 100-page outline
of actions to be taken in the
fi rst hours and days after the
disaster. The playbook cov-
ers the fi rst two weeks after
an earthquake.
Scientists have predicted
a possible 9.0 scale earth-
quake and subsequent tsu-
nami along the 700-mile sub-
duction zone could kill up to
25,000 people in the Pacifi c
Northwest. Areas east of the
Cascades are expected to
escape with light to moderate
damage.
That could make Bend the
linchpin in state plans for a
worst-case scenario disaster.
“The youth facility has
plenty of capacity for people
to bunk down, IT capability
and communications facil-
ities,” said Andrew Phelps,
director of the state Offi ce of
Emergency Management.
Oregon Youth Challenge
Program is a tuition-free,
residential alternative high
school associated with the
National Guard that draws
at-risk students from across
Oregon.
The campus 9 miles east
of Bend is undergoing a $10
million renovation and build-
ing program to expand its
facilities, including a new
dormitory. Buildings are also
being seismically retrofi t-
ted to withstand earthquakes.
When work is completed, the
campus will be able to house
240 students.
Because Oregon lacks
the major military bases of
neighboring California and
Washington state, the Red-
mond Airport would also
likely be a central staging
ground if airfi elds at Port-
land, Salem, Eugene, Med-
ford and other points west
of the Cascades are rendered
unusable.
“We don’t have that large
federal footprint, like Joint
Base Lewis-McChord in
Washington, where you can
expand operations with-
out much additional plan-
ning,” Phelps said. “We need
to make sure we are on the
same page as our federal
partners about what they are
going to bring, and when and
where they are going to bring
it.”
Redmond Airport has two
runways. Its principal run-
way is 7,038 feet long. The
secondary runway, at 7,006
feet long, has recently under-
gone a $10.1 million upgrade
to bring its lights and pav-
ing up to Federal Aviation
Administration standards.
Nationwide internet outage
affects CenturyLink customers
Problems
with 911 in
Washington state
Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho — Many
CenturyLink
customers
across the U.S. were with-
out internet service amid
a lengthy outage that even
affected some Verizon
customers.
The outage began early
in the day Thursday but
by late Thursday night, the
company tweeted that its
engineers had identifi ed
a “network element” that
was affecting services and
expected to fully restore
services within hours.
Pacifi c County, Wash-
ington, residents received
automated phone calls and
emergency text notifi ca-
tions Thursday night that
the 911 emergency num-
ber was likely to be inoper-
able, the Chinook Observer
reported. A follow-up noti-
fi cation about 8:30 a.m.
today advised residents that
service had been restored.
The Oregonian and The
Columbian reported that
the Clark County, Wash-
ington, 911 center was
down Thursday night, and
that the outages appeared
to be affecting 911 services
statewide.
Residents in Clark
County were not alerted
of widespread 911 outages
through a wireless emer-
gency alert system until
almost three hours after the
county’s emergency ser-
vices agency appeared to
have fi rst acknowledged
its 911 center phone lines
were compromised, Ore-
gon Public Broadcasting
reported.
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