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Friday, January 30, 2015
East Oregonian
Company wants to save air tankers
Outdated aircraft were
used by USFS until 2011
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
A California-based company is ask-
ing the public to help save six large, ma-
neuverable air tankers and return them
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Corporation, of Sacramento, California,
which provided the tankers under exclu-
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In 2011, the Forest Service canceled
its contract with Aero Union following
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of business, and the tankers were later
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and launched an Indiegogo crowd fund-
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The P-3 Orion air tanker was used for fighting wildfires until the U.S. For-
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the P-3 campaign is meant support the
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Jennifer Jones, a USFS spokeswom-
an for the National Interagency Fire
Center in Boise, said their focus now
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that can meet certain criteria for speed,
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compared to the older “legacy” tank-
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safely and effectively battle large blazes,
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Contact George Plaven at gplaven@
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Umatilla County backs Pendleton drone range
place and entity investing
in the remote-controlled
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of Commissioners gave example, was deciding to
its support to the city of locate in one city or another
Pendleton for developing an in the county, he said the
unmanned aerial system test board could not pass this kind
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The board, though, did
Board chairman Bill
Elfering said he and not attach dollars to the
commissioners Larry Givens resolution, but Elfering said
and
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because Pendleton is in a development and the 2015-
unique position as the only 16 county budget could have
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about a third of that available
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he said, such as increasing
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drone base at the airport in
Pendleton does not have
direct effect on the county,
but if a manufacturer moved
in that would lead to jobs and
people needing housing and
the county would see a boost
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Murdock toured the project
at separate times and while
now it is in the testing phase
the site has the potential for
manufacturing and real job
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would hope it develops into,”
he said, akin to what the
Cessna Aircraft Company
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The board during its
administrative meeting also
approved a policy to send
text messages to county
employees in the event of an
emergency, including for bad
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Naomi Aguilar
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second place in Eastern wanted to thank Hermiston
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Madilyn
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representative
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Hermiston High School,
was selected to represent
the cooperative at this
year’s Youth Tour hosted by
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and debate, sings in the
high school’s chamber
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Michael Slover and
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scene and Pendleton police
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He lives on the Umatilla
Indian Reservation near
Pendleton,
the
chief
said, and tribal police are
trying to contact him at
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Roberts said Gornick
could face charges of
trespassing and burglary,
which means someone
entered a place to commit
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But Roberts cautioned that
none of that is certain and
if police decide there is
not a clear reason to make
an arrest the department
may refer the case instead
to the Umatilla County
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