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after death of son
the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment. Several campgrounds
have been evacuated, and
two highways have been
closed.
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contained Wednesday.
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Tuesday.
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Strong, erratic winds
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tains in Markleeville, Calif. The wildfire has grown to and severe drought condi-
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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.
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Los Angeles.
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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
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horses also were moved to
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safer ground.
east of Los Angeles was one near Eureka that led
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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
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In Tanana, a tribal
surrounded several hours vacation homes.
later.
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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.
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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
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through several dry Western
states, including a massive
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part of the main interstate
between
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and
Northern California. A look
at the latest hotspots and
what crews are doing to
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scorching a remote part of
southwestern Oregon has
grown to nearly 8 square
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commander
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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
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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.
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monitoring the blaze and
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for this time of year. It was
caused by a lightning strike
in late May.
SOUTHERN
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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
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By DIANE DIETZ
The Register-Guard
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PORTLAND (AP) — The
bodies of two people were
found in a freezer at a Spring-
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lived there with his parents
called 911 to ask for a police
negotiator.
Police Sgt. Rich Char-
boneau said Wednesday he
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were those of the missing
parents. He said no charges
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twice in the past two weeks
after an out-of-state relative
couldn’t reach the family and
asked for welfare checks.
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time was June 15, the second
was Monday.
Both times, he said, notes
on the door said the family
was away.
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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.
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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
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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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102° 66°
MONDAY
Very hot
Very hot
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
107° 71°
106° 73°
101° 68°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
98° 61°
104° 63°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
87°
82°
102° (1992)
60°
54°
30° (1904)
PRECIPITATION
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
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0.98"
4.99"
6.94"
7.49"
HERMISTON
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TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
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Records
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LOW
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82°
107° (1992)
66°
55°
41° (1934)
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SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
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July 8
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104° 69°
Seattle
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July 23
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Wenatchee
90/63
98/70
Tacoma
Moses
87/58
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 96/64
87/53
74/57
87/57
99/65
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
86/60
97/69 Lewiston
97/61
Astoria
95/64
73/58
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
91/64
Pendleton 87/55
The Dalles 98/61
95/62
98/66
La Grande
Salem
89/58
92/63
Albany
Corvallis 92/62
94/61
John Day
90/59
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
98/63
92/59
89/56
Caldwell
Burns
94/60
93/54
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Baker City
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Meacham
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Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
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hot today. Mainly clear tonight. Sunshine
and hot tomorrow.
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Atlantic tonight. Storms will dot the South and Plains. Much of the rest of the nation will be
dry as heat holds in the South and West.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 115° in Needles, Calif.
Low 35° in West Yellowstone, Mont.
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New York City
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