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Page 2A NORTHWEST East Oregonian Thursday, June 25, 2015 :LOG¿UHVWKUHDWHQ:HVWHUQKRPHV Dad urges vaccine after death of son the Bureau of Land Manage- ment. Several campgrounds have been evacuated, and two highways have been closed. 7KH¿UHLJQLWHGE\OLJKW- ning Friday, was not at all contained Wednesday. Air tankers and helicop- WHUVKHOSHGKXQGUHGVRI¿UH- ¿JKWHUVEDWWOHWKHEOD]HDERXW 20 miles west of the Nevada ERUGHU 2QH ¿UH¿JKWHU received a heat-related injury Tuesday. Jim Grant/ Nevada Appeal via AP Strong, erratic winds Smoke from the Washington Fire rises over the moun- tains in Markleeville, Calif. The wildfire has grown to and severe drought condi- over 20 square miles in hazardous and inaccessible ter- WLRQV KDYH VWRNHG WKH ¿UH rain south of Lake Tahoe and is moving closer to struc- and smoke can be seen as tures, officials said. far away as Carson City, people have been evacuated WKLQJ,MXVWSODQWHGÀRZHUV´ Nevada. ALASKA: Growing from homes as a 100-acre 0RUHWKDQ¿UH¿JKWHUV ZLOG¿UH EXUQV WKURXJK from agencies around the ZLOG¿UHV KDYH OHG WR PRUH evacuations in Alaska’s brushy canyonlands north of region are assisting. Los Angeles. Meanwhile, crews relied parched interior, with an Houses and a mobile on retardant-dropping international mushing cham- home park in the Newhall aircraft to battle a huge forest pion evacuating his dogs area of Santa Clarita have ¿UHWKDWKDVEHHQEXUQLQJIRU from one of two communities been emptied. The Los a week in an inaccessible where residents voluntarily Angeles County Sheriff’s area of the San Bernardino ÀHGWKHLUKRPHV 0RUH WKDQ ¿UHV DUH Department says about 30 Mountains. horses also were moved to The blaze about 90 miles burning in Alaska, including safer ground. east of Los Angeles was one near Eureka that led 7KH ¿UH EHJDQ VKRUWO\ partially contained after Yukon Quest International after 1 p.m. Wednesday on burning nearly 30 square Sled Dog Race champion the shoulder of Interstate 5, miles of old-growth timber. Brent Sass to evacuate his EULHÀ\FORVLQJIUHHZD\ODQHV Several hundred people were dogs to Fairbanks, news )LUH¿JKWHUV EHJDQ WR JHW LW forced to leave camps and station KTUU reported. In Tanana, a tribal surrounded several hours vacation homes. later. NORTHERN CALI- QRQSUR¿WÀHZSHRSOH :LQGGULYHQ ÀDPHV ZHUH FORNIA: $ ZLOG¿UH KDV miles to Fairbanks, focusing nearing homes, including grown to 26 square miles in on elders, children and Dale Lookholder’s. He had hazardous and inaccessible people with health condi- collected a bag of prescrip- terrain south of Lake Tahoe tions. The Tanana Chiefs tion medications in prepara- and is moving closer to struc- Conference, a consortium of 42 villages in the interior, tion for evacuating. WXUHVRI¿FLDOVVDLG “Just my drugs, that’s all No buildings have been DOVR ÀHZ VL[ SHRSOH IURP I care about,” Lookholder damaged, but the moun- the village of Hughes on told KABC-TV. “In the 23 tain town of Markleeville Tuesday as a precaution in years that we’ve been here, remained on standby case it gets worse in that this is as close as it’s gotten. I Wednesday for possible village, which is about 10 hope they get a handle on this evacuations, according to PLOHVIURPD¿UH Associated Press :LOG¿UHV DUH VZHHSLQJ through several dry Western states, including a massive EOD]H WKDW EULHÀ\ VKXW GRZQ part of the main interstate between Southern and Northern California. A look at the latest hotspots and what crews are doing to control them: OREGON: $ ZLOG¿UH scorching a remote part of southwestern Oregon has grown to nearly 8 square PLOHV EXW KXQGUHGV RI ¿UH- ¿JKWHUVKDYHZRUNHGWRJHWLW nearly halfway contained. Incident commander 'RXJ-RKQVRQVDLG¿UHOLQHV will be tested in the coming days by a heat wave expected to bring triple-digit tempera- tures to the region. The lightning-sparked blaze started June 11 and is burning in the Rogue-River Siskiyou National Forest. WASHINGTON: Cooler temperatures have helped temper the growth of a ZLOG¿UH EXUQLQJ LQ 2O\PSLF National Park. 7KH ¿UH ZDV HVWLPDWHG at about 1 1/2 square miles Wednesday. The 950-acre blaze is burning high in the tree tops in a wilderness area about 13 miles north of Quinault. No structures were threatened. Fire managers say they’re monitoring the blaze and ¿JKWLQJLWZKHQLW¶VVDIH 3DUNRI¿FLDO7RGG5DQNLQ VD\V WKH ¿UH LV YHU\ XQXVXDO for this time of year. It was caused by a lightning strike in late May. SOUTHERN CALI- FORNIA: About 1,000 before today’s meeting of the Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory EUGENE — While half Committee on Immuni- of University of Oregon zation Practices, which is undergraduates skipped the expected to decide whether recommended vaccination to make the meningococcal against the deadly type B B vaccine routinely avail- meningococcal disease, able to anyone from middle one Oregon father drove school age to college age. So far, the two- or three- his son to Canada to get the vaccination last fall before part vaccination is available he began attending Oregon only to high-risk groups, such as people with certain State University. disorders or “I’m not sending him immune off to a dorm without it, students at a university — that’s for sure,” said Scott such as the UO — where an Parkhurst, a Clackamas outbreak has occurred. Parkhurst — and other County resident who got the Canada-visit idea from parents who have lost children to meningococcal a TV show. A mother in Michigan, disease — are asking meanwhile, took a busload the CDC committee to of students to Ontario for make the meningococcal meningococcal vaccina- B vaccine as regular as the preventive shots for tions. To some, Parkhurst may measles and mumps — or sound a little overprotective at least as available as to go to such extremes to vaccinations against other get the meningococcal shot strains of meningococcal bacteria, such as groups A, for his son. But Parkhurst started C, Y and W135. About one in 10 people 2014 with two sons: Jeff and Jake, who were best who get meningococcal friends and soulmates, their disease die, while two of 10 survivors suffer perma- father said. Parkhurst ticked off facts nent damage to the brain, about Jake, the younger of nervous system or limbs. “I’ve met people who’ve the two: “Seventeen-year-old survived it — no arms, no junior at Central Catholic legs, brain damage, you High School, A-student, name it. It breaks your swim team, strong, 6 foot, heart — especially when a couple hundred pounds. it’s preventable,” Parkhurst A good strong kid,” he said. said in a phone interview But suddenly, on March during a layover in Houston 3, 2014, the family found on his trip East. The 15-member CDC itself in an emergency room with Jake, hearing a advisory committee is made doctor say he probably had up of public health and meningococcal disease and medical experts who vet potential vaccinations and might die. “In 36 hours,” his dad establish protocol for their said, “he went from feeling use. The advisory group’s decisions are important sick to dead.” So Parkhurst went to because the Affordable Victoria, B.C., to protect Care Act requires insurance his remaining son, Jeff, companies to cover the full because the vaccine was not cost of immunizations that yet available in the United the committee recommends — and one full course of States. Tuesday, Parkhurst meningococcal B shots ÀHZ WR $WODQWD WR WHVWLI\ costs hundreds of dollars. By DIANE DIETZ The Register-Guard 7ZRERGLHVIRXQGLQ6SULQJ¿HOGKRPHIUHH]HU PORTLAND (AP) — The bodies of two people were found in a freezer at a Spring- ¿HOGKRXVHDIWHUDPDQZKR lived there with his parents called 911 to ask for a police negotiator. Police Sgt. Rich Char- boneau said Wednesday he FRXOGQRWFRQ¿UPWKHERGLHV were those of the missing parents. He said no charges KDGEHHQ¿OHG 2I¿FHUVZHQWWRWKHKRXVH twice in the past two weeks after an out-of-state relative couldn’t reach the family and asked for welfare checks. &KDUERQHDX VDLG 7KH ¿UVW time was June 15, the second was Monday. Both times, he said, notes on the door said the family was away. $Q RI¿FHU IROORZHG XS by returning to the home Tuesday and knocked on the door as a man inside called 911 and asked for the negoti- ator, Charboneau said. $GGLWLRQDORI¿FHUVDUULYHG and forced their way into the house when there was no response. The man inside had an injury not considered life-threatening and remained in a hospital. His name was not released, and police said only that he was bleeding. Police have not said how the two people were killed. A neighbor, Bob Wilson, told The Register-Guard newspaper that a woman who OLYHG DW WKH KRPH FRQ¿GHG that her husband was a heavy drinker and abusive. Wilson said he encouraged her to contact an agency that assists women facing domestic violence. Wilson and other neigh- bors said the adult son got into frequent arguments with the father. “I feared violence, there was so much hatred toward each other,” Wilson told the newspaper. 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