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RENO, Nev. — A
growing network of cameras
trained on the forested moun-
tains around Lake Tahoe
is changing the way crews
¿ght Western wild¿res by
allowing early detection that
triggers quicker, cheaper,
more tactical suppression
than traditional war-like
operations, experts said
Wednesday.
The
high-de¿nition
cameras can be operated
remotely to pan, tilt and
zoom in the search for the
¿rst wisps of smoke in
remote areas, said Graham
Kent, director of the Nevada
Seismological Laboratory.
Equipped with real-time
and time-lapse imagery, the
cameras piggyback on an
existing, high-speed network
that detects earthquakes,
Kent told the annual meeting
of the Seismological Society
of America in Reno.
Last summer, a half-
dozen of the hazard cameras
at Tahoe were credited with
the discovery of six ¿res and
provided early intelligence
on more than 25, Kent said.
“The old style of ¿re-
¿ghting is like storming
the beach at Normandy,
but if you can get on a ¿re
early, with special tools,
then it becomes more like
— Graham Kent, director of the Nevada
Seismological Laboratory
a special forces situation,”
Kent said. “Fire¿ghting is
going to become much more
tactical.”
He said more cameras
are being installed across
much of northern Nevada
and close to the Utah
border in conjunction with
the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management. He’s currently
working with ¿re¿ghters in
Oregon, Idaho and Montana
to develop similar networks.
Frank Vernon, a research
geophysicist at the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography
at the University of Cali-
fornia, San Diego, began
developing the “virtual ¿re
lookout towers” in 2002
when he and others built a
large-scale, wireless network
in Southern California.
It now includes more
than 64 ¿xed mountaintop
cameras in 16 remote
locations across San Diego,
Riverside and Imperial
counties.
Coquille tribe calls ‘Lewis and Clark’
lottery ads offensive
“The notion of ¿re
cameras has been out there
for 20 years. But they
were mostly closed circuit,
analogue systems with poor
resolution,” Kent said.
The video feeds are
available to state, local and
federal ¿re¿ghters and can
be viewed by the public on
the AlertTahoe Web site.
University of Nevada,
Reno scientists are working
on technology to use
“machine vision — to teach
computers to spot the ¿res
without humans,” Kent said.
“We’re sort of crowd-
sourcing lookout towers,”
he said. “Anybody in this
room, if they are feeling
anxious or just have a
premonition, they can go
onto AlertTahoe, right click
on the camera pane and see
the time lapse. We could
have hundreds of people
searching for ¿res at any one
time — people who are just
basically concerned.”
Kent said the video feeds
help ¿re managers make
more ef¿cient decisions
deploying resources during
the early stages of attack
after a lightning strike is
reported.
“In the old days, you
would send a spotter plane at
great expense, or you would
guess and send too few or
too many people,” he said.
“The old style of firefighting is like
storming the beach at Normandy, but
if you can get on a fire early, with
special tools, then it becomes more
like a special forces situation.”
Associated Press
BRIEFLY
“Working with partners
to provide this technology
to the community is vitally
important
as
extreme
drought conditions, warmer
weather and more frequent
Santa Ana wind events have
all contributed to increased
wild¿re activity and longer
¿re seasons each year
in Southern California,”
Vernon said.
The
multi-hazard
function of the cameras
is especially valuable to
communities such as Lake
Tahoe and Reno that border
wildlands.
“The big three for us
are Àoods, ¿res and earth-
quakes,” said Kyle West,
safety and training manager
in Reno. The city is located
in Washoe County, where
of¿cials recently updated
their hazard mitigation plan.
Kent said of¿cials hope
to have more than 20 of the
cameras up and operating by
the end of this year.
NORTH BEND (AP) — The Coquille Indian Tribe
is calling for a state lottery campaign to be changed,
calling it insensitive to indigenous people.
The Coos Bay World reports that Coquille
chairwoman Brenda Meade sent a letter to Oregon
Lottery Director Jack Roberts Wednesday calling for the
end of a “Lewis and Clark” advertising campaign, which
depicts Lewis and Clark discovering “native” lottery
terminals.
There are no native people depicted in the ads, which
Meade says makes the ¿ctional Oregon appear as a land
“ripe for economic exploitation” without competition
from indigenous people. She says the ads are supposed
to be funny, but highlight that Oregon’s politicians don’t
want to share wealth with tribes.
Meade’s grievances come days after Gov. Kate
Brown opposed a Coquille casino over concerns about
the proliferation of gambling in the state.
One dead, two injured in
small plane crash in Woodland
WOODLAND, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say one
person was killed and two were injured after a small
plane ran off the runway at an airport in Woodland.
The Columbian reports emergency personnel were
called to the scene at about 3 p.m. Thursday for a single
engine plane that had driven off the end of the runway,
through a fence and up an embankment.
Three people were taken to a nearby hospital.
Woodland Mayor Will Finn told to the newspaper that
one person was killed.
Authorities say the plane, a Mooney M20K, is
registered to a corporation in Woodinville and was
bound for Renton.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen
Kenitzer says the plane crashed under unknown
circumstances. Both the FAA and the National
Transportation Safety Board are investigating.
Woodland is about 30 miles north of Portland.
Umpqua Hot Springs reopen after
E. coli scare in September
OHSU plans rural health center in Klamath Falls
“We envision a building
that will be a place for
primary care to be delivered
in an educational setting,”
Sky Lakes CEO Paul Stewart
said, “where a variety of
health care providers will
participate in the clinical
care while they are partici-
pating in their educational
training program.”
The new building, to be
located on the west side of
the Sky Lakes campus, will
also consolidate Sky Lakes’
clinics around Klamath
Falls.
“We have been opening
primary care clinics but they
are kind of scattered and
diffused, and implementing
transformational changes
in how care’s delivered
became more dif¿cult and
complex when it’s in small
clinics scattered all over.”
By COURTNEY ANDERSON
Herald and News
KLAMATH
FALLS
— Sky Lakes Medical
Center and Oregon Health
&
Science
University
announced a partnership to
launch a $50 million project
for a new clinical and educa-
tion building.
The facility will host clin-
ical care, provide training to
students in OHSU’s Family
Practice Residency Program
and be the academic center
for OHSU’s Campus for
Rural Health.
President of OHSU Joe
Robertson said the collab-
oration formed last fall,
but Wednesday marks the
announcement of the new
building plans and fund-
raising campaign to make
program goals a reality.
Stewart said.
“So we had the idea that
it would be great to consol-
idate some of our primary
care in close proximity to
the residency clinic.”
Sky Lakes, OHSU and
Oregon Institute of Tech-
nology Foundation have
formed an organization
for fundraising the project.
The three foundations are
working together to reach
$50 million and begin
breaking ground to build the
88,000-square-foot building
by 2018.
Sky Lakes has pledged
$15 million to kick-start
the fundraising campaign.
OHSU has also committed
at least $5 million.
Oregon Institute of
Technology Foundation is
part of the organization for
fundraising on the project.
OIT may also be part of the
education component of the
project, but there’s nothing
formal yet.
Stewart said he hopes
the partnership will be the
springboard to create new
programs, for example
adding a doctorate in phys-
ical-therapy degree with
OHSU and OIT as partners.
He said adding more
programs can lead to more
jobs in the community.
“Not just jobs directly
but more intellectual stim-
ulation in our community.
OIT is a great asset and
OHSU is a great partner.
Overall, I think this is going
to make our community
more attractive and easier
to attract other businesses,
students and others to come
to our community,” Stewart
said.
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
A t-storm in spots
in the p.m.
Some sun, a shower;
not as warm
73° 48°
66° 47°
Cloudy
Variably cloudy
with a shower
Mostly cloudy and
breezy
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
60° 41°
62° 40°
62° 39°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
74° 51°
70° 49°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
76°
64°
92° (1934)
49°
40°
26° (1951)
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"
0.21"
0.83"
4.20"
3.01"
4.83"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
76°
66°
92° (1934)
48°
40°
20° (1951)
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"
0.28"
0.57"
2.98"
1.78"
3.71"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Apr 29
May 6
First
May 13
68° 38°
Seattle
60/50
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
66° 44°
66° 43°
5:57 a.m.
7:51 p.m.
8:29 p.m.
6:30 a.m.
Full
May 21
Today
TUESDAY
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SUNDAY
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Wenatchee
71/47
73/50
Tacoma
Moses
61/46
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 76/49
70/44
59/50
61/45
73/46
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
60/47
71/49 Lewiston
77/52
Astoria
75/50
61/49
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
64/50
Pendleton 66/40
The Dalles 74/51
73/48
67/51
La Grande
Salem
69/45
63/48
Albany
Corvallis 62/49
63/48
John Day
66/42
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
72/47
62/47
56/34
Caldwell
Burns
72/49
58/36
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
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: A thick cloud cover today
with a couple of showers. A passing shower
tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Cooler today
with a shower or thunderstorm in spots.
Eastern Washington: A thunderstorm in
spots today, except a shower across the
south and toward the Cascades.
Cascades: Cloudy and cooler today with a
couple of showers.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today
into tomorrow with a passing shower.
Northern California: A shower and thunder-
storm around today; snow, accumulating
1-3 inches in the interior mountains.
Today
Saturday
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
ROSEBURG (AP) — A popular hot springs in
southern Oregon have reopened after high levels of
E. coli were found in September, forcing a closure.
The News-Review reports that the Umpqua Hot
Springs will be available to visitors from sunup to
sundown as of Tuesday.
Federal forest of¿cials revealed in September that
high amounts of human waste had caused of bloom of
E. coli prompting a closure until June 30, 2016, or until
the bacterial levels dropped to safe levels.
In a statement Wednesday, the forest service said
police have issued more and more tickets in the past
three years to people nearby for illegal drug use,
domestic violence, camp¿re violations, cutting down
trees and more, which in addition to the bacteria
prompted the new time restrictions at the springs.
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0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
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National Summary: Showers and thunderstorms will extend from northern New England
to the Gulf Coast today. Showers and storms will also extend from central California to
Washington. The Plains, Rockies and deserts will be dry.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 98° in Blythe, Calif.
Low 19° in Saranac Lake, N.Y.
NATIONAL CITIES
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Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
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Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
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