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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
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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.
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Klamath Falls
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WORLD CITIES
(in mph)
Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny today;
however, low clouds followed by sunshine
in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny today,
but some clouds across the north and in the
upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: A shower in the area
today; times of clouds and sun, but partly
sunny at the coast.
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
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°
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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
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Memphis
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Miami
92
Milwaukee
81
Minneapolis
81
Nashville
84
New Orleans
90
New York City
83
Oklahoma City
85
Omaha
84
Philadelphia
88
Phoenix
103
Portland, ME
77
Providence
81
Raleigh
86
Rapid City
93
Reno
94
Sacramento
88
St. Louis
85
Salt Lake City
94
San Diego
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San Francisco
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Seattle
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Tucson
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Washington, DC 87
Wichita
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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‘A hole in our state’s heart’: 3 firefighters mourned
By BRIAN SKOLOFF and
NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press
TWISP, Wash. — The
¿re¿ghters — members of
a specially trained unit that
is sent into danger ahead
of everyone else to size up
a wild¿re — rushed up a
narrow, winding gravel road
with steep hills on either side.
It proved to be a deathtrap.
Their vehicle crashed, and
before they could escape,
Àames rolled over them,
killing three ¿re¿ghters
inside and injuring four
others nearby, one critically,
authorities said.
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.
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