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Page 2A WEATHER East Oregonian REGIONAL CITIES Forecast TODAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Partly sunny, windy and smoky Dimmed sunshine and smoky Plenty of sunshine 79° 50° 83° 51° MONDAY TUESDAY Brilliant sunshine and very warm Partly sunny PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 91° 61° 91° 61° 84° 55° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 83° 49° 85° 47° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 89° 86° 106° (1897) 65° 57° 38° (1916) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 0.00" Trace 0.27" 5.00" 7.96" 8.22" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday Corvallis 83/47 LOW 89° 87° 105° (2009) 68° 57° 38° (1929) 0.00" Trace 0.13" 3.25" 4.85" 6.05" SUN AND MOON Aug 22 Aug 29 6:02 a.m. 7:54 p.m. 12:56 p.m. 11:17 p.m. Last New Sep 5 Sep 12 John Day 77/46 Ontario 90/55 Bend 77/40 Burns 84/38 Caldwell 88/53 Today Astoria Baker City Bend Brookings Burns Enterprise Eugene Heppner Hermiston John Day Klamath Falls La Grande Meacham Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Redmond Salem Spokane Ukiah Vancouver Walla Walla Yakima Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo REGIONAL FORECAST Hi 92 94 89 74 74 73 84 83 85 72 86 www.eastoregonian.com Eastern Washington: Partly sunny and smoky today. Mainly clear tonight. Abun- dant sunshine tomorrow. Cascades: Mostly sunny today; pleasant in the south. Clear tonight. Northern California: Windy at the coast today; plenty of sunshine in the interior mountains. East 2reJonian (USPS 164-980) is SXElisKed daily e[FeSt SXnday, Monday and 'eF. 25, Ey tKe E2 Media *roXS, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, 25 71. PeriodiFals SostaJe Said at Pendleton, 25. Postmaster: send address FKanJes to East 2reJonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, 25 71. W s s s pc s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s Lo 69 83 67 59 57 49 63 63 68 57 79 W s t s pc t s s s c s c Hi 88 94 89 82 73 76 87 82 85 77 89 Sat. Lo 68 82 68 65 54 53 63 63 68 57 78 W c pc s pc t s s s pc pc pc Today Saturday NE 4-8 NNE 6-12 1 4 6 6 4 1 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 Didn’t receive your paper? &all 1--522-255 EeIore 5 S.m.7Xesday tKroXJK )riday or EeIore 1 a.m. SatXrday for same-day redelivery E=Pay 52 ZeeNs 26 ZeeNs 13 ZeeNs E= Pay Lo 54 37 47 57 42 47 53 52 47 53 48 43 35 62 50 53 50 46 51 60 43 57 54 43 58 58 48 WSW 8-16 W 12-25 Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ Hi 80 79 82 73 83 79 91 82 85 84 89 81 76 98 68 69 87 85 83 90 86 92 79 80 90 85 84 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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WINDS Medford 90/56 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today First Full Albany 80/50 Eugene 82/48 HIGH 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 89° 55° Spokane Wenatchee 76/51 80/58 Tacoma Moses 76/48 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 82/51 74/42 70/53 77/47 83/48 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 75/50 82/55 Lewiston 85/48 Astoria 81/55 70/52 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 79/55 Pendleton 74/43 The Dalles 83/49 79/50 80/53 La Grande Salem 77/39 80/52 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 95° 59° Seattle 75/56 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 93° 57° Friday, August 21, 2015 SUBSCRIPTION RATES /oFal Kome delivery SavinJs off Fover SriFe 14.5 41 SerFent 173.67 41 SerFent 1.6 3 SerFent 47.77 36 SerFent one-year rate ZitK a montKly Fredit or deEit FardFKeFN FKarJe Single copy price: 1 7Xesday tKroXJK )riday, 1.5 SatXrday Copyright © 2015, EO Media Group Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. -10s -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Drenching showers and thunderstorms will affect New England, the mid-Atlantic coast and the Deep South today. Storms will dot the Four Corners region, while showers move southeastward into Montana. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 108° in Needles, Calif. Low 30° in West Yellowstone, Mont. NATIONAL CITIES Today Albuquerque Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Hi 91 87 84 85 87 83 87 80 92 80 82 75 95 92 78 98 64 86 91 92 81 93 83 103 85 82 Lo 66 70 71 60 52 70 54 69 75 55 62 55 77 60 58 75 46 67 79 76 60 74 67 79 70 66 W pc t t pc pc t pc t t s s s pc s s pc c s pc t s sh pc s t pc Hi 91 87 82 84 67 88 85 80 89 83 84 80 98 88 81 95 60 79 91 94 81 93 83 102 87 83 Sat. 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The tragedy Wednesday night cast a pall in Wash- ington state and brought to 1 the number of ¿re¿ghters killed across the West this year during one of the driest and most explosive wild¿re seasons on record. The blazes have “burned a big hole in our state’s heart,” Gov. Jay Inslee lamented AP Photo/Elaine Thompson Jackson Hotshots’ firefighters, from Jackson, Miss., stand with hands and helmets over their hearts as they watch a motorcade carrying the bodies of firefighters killed a day earlier while fighting a wildfire drive past Thursday in Twisp, Wash. Thursday, describing the outbreak as an “unprece- dented cataclysm.” “These are three big heroes protecting small towns,” the governor said, urging residents to “thank a ¿re¿ghter.” Fire of¿cials with notebooks and cameras walked the hills and banks near Woods Canyon Road outside Twisp, investigating how the disaster happened. Authorities gave few details, shedding no light, for example, on the crash, other than to say that it was not the accident itself that killed the victims, but the ¿re. The deaths happened in the scenic Methow River valley about 115 miles northeast of Seattle, where a series of blazes covering close to 140 square miles had merged. The Àames burned an undetermined number of homes and triggered orders to about 1,300 people in the outdoor-recreation commu- nities of Twisp and Winthrop to evacuate. “It was a nightmare,” Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers said. “Every- thing was burning.” He added, “We know it was a ¿restorm in there.” All the dead were U.S. Forest Service ¿re¿ghters. The agency identi¿ed them as Tom Zbyszewski, 20; Andrew Zajac, 26; and Richard Wheeler, 31. Their hometowns weren’t immedi- ately released. Zbyszewski was a junior at Whitman College in Walla Walla, majoring in physics and active in the school’s theater department, the college’s president said in a statement. He was ¿ghting a ¿re near his hometown of Carlton when he died. All three were from highly specialized crews that go into dangerous areas as fast as they can to examine a scene and report back to commanders on what needs to be done, said Bill Queen, a ¿re¿ghting spokesman. “It just kind of exploded and they got caught in a burn over,” said Queen, referring to what happens when condi- tions change so rapidly that Àames overtake ¿re¿ghters. 1early 29,000 ¿re¿ghters — 3,000 of them in Wash- ington — are battling some 100 large blazes across the drought- and heat-stricken West, including Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Cali- fornia. Conditions were expected to deteriorate in Washington on Thursday, with high winds and high temperatures. “We have a responsibility to stay on focus and stay on task today. That’s a good way to honor the fallen ¿re- ¿ghters,” said ¿re incident commander Chris Schulte. Jessica Gardetto of the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, said the 13 dead ¿re¿ghters so far is a relatively high number. There were 10 fatalities last year and 15 in 2012. But there were 34 in 2013, including 19 members of an elite ¿re¿ghting crew killed by an out-of-control wild¿re near the small town of Yarnell, Arizona. Of the injured in Wash- ington, the most seriously hurt is Daniel Lyon, 25, of Puyallup, Washington. The Forest Service employee had burns over 60 percent of his body and was listed in crit- ical condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, the Forest Service said. Corrections A story in Thursday’s East Oregonian mixed up quotes from Pioneer Humane Society board member Susan Goodnow and fellow member Sara Hebard. The corrected story is online at www.eastoregonian.com. The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. 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