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THURSDAY
Feras Domy via AP, File
In this 2015 ile photo, comrades carry Ilias Mahmoud al-Taweel, a member of
Syrian Civil Defence, or White Helmets, during his funeral in in Douma, the sub-
urbs of Damascus. Taweel died while rescuing victims of the shelling of the city.
Most dangerous job in the world
By PHILIP ISSA
Associated Press
BEIRUT — It took
Mahmoud Fadlallah and
the team of seven rescue
workers 30 minutes to reach
the middle-aged couple
trapped beneath the rubble
of their apartment building
in the contested Syrian city
of Aleppo. They had been
notiied a rocket had struck
the building, and they had to
wait for the debris to fall and
the dust to settle.
“We called out: ‘We are
the Civil Defense, is anyone
able to hear us?”’ Fadlallah
said of the rescue operation
earlier this summer. “They
were on the irst loor, with
four loors above them, but
they were protected by the
ceiling, which had collapsed
at a slant.”
It was routine work for
the 3,000-strong Syrian Civil
Defense, which mounts
search-and-rescue operations
under the unforgiving atmo-
sphere of war in the shattered
country’s opposition areas,
and whose supporters have
nominated its irst responders
for the 2016 Nobel Peace
Prize.
Their rescuers were
among those who pulled
5-year-old Omran Daqneesh
and his family from the
rubble of their apartment
building Wednesday night. A
photo of little Omran, sitting
alone in an ambulance,
confused and covered in
debris and blood, has become
the haunting image of the
battle for Aleppo.
The
group’s
global
following, which includes
dozens of Syrian civil society
groups operating in opposi-
tion areas as well as interna-
tional organizations, says the
Civil Defense rescuers —
known as the White Helmets
for their trademark headgear
— is engaged in “the most
dangerous job in the world.”
“People are dying, and
we run toward death,” said
Fadlallah, whose team was
able to rescue the trapped
couple in June and also
pulled four corpses from the
rubble, including one whose
limbs had been blown off
by the force of the blast.
He has since lost two of his
colleagues from that rescue
mission.
Rescue workers are
targeted with such regularity
by government forces that
they have come up with a
name for the tactic: “double
tap” attacks.
After an initial strike,
government warplanes circle
around and hit the target a
second time, or lay siege to
the area with overwhelming
artillery ire.
It was in such circum-
stances that Fadlallah lost a
teammate last week. Khaled
Omran Harrah had earlier
captured international media
attention for his dramatic
2014 rescue of a 10-day-old
infant trapped in rubble for
16 hours.
Harrah was on the job
again last week, called along
with Fadlallah and ive other
White Helmet rescuers to the
scene of a blast. The men
were working to extract a
survivor from the rubble
when they came under
second attack.
“They must have seen
us coming, and they started
striking us with a tank,
mortars, and airstrikes,”
Fadlallah said.
The group cowered in
a building that could not
provide enough cover, and
Harrah was killed. Five
others, including Fadlallah
sustained shrapnel wounds.
They were stuck for two
hours, and the man they came
to rescue died.
The next day was a sched-
uled day off for Fadlallah.
He returned to his duties for
a standard 24-hour shift the
day after that, his wounds still
unhealed.
The White Helmets have
lost 134 rescuers in the line
of duty, says director Raed
Saleh, while participating in
rescues the group says saved
60,000 lives. The igures
could not be independently
veriied.
Government
sympa-
thizers accuse the group of
aiding “terrorists,” a catch-all
term the government uses to
describe its armed opponents.
Such associations are
inevitable, however, in the
Syria war, where after more
than ive years of ighting
practically all sides have
been ingered for war crimes.
In many opposition-held
areas where the White
Helmets operate, they come
under the jurisdiction of
unsavory rebel factions,
including the al-Qaida-linked
Jabhat Fatah al-Sham in
northwestern Idlib province.
But civilians — 1.5 million
by the pre-war population
estimate — live there, too.
The White Helmets grew
out of networks of volunteer
irst responders who were
rescuing
victims
from
government shelling and
bombardment in opposition
areas.
Since 2013, the group has
grown to operate 119 centers
across Syria, receiving
substantial
organizational
support
from
Mayday
Rescue, a Turkey-based
NGO that grew alongside the
White Helmets to organize
training and deliver equip-
ment to the irst responders.
Against the backdrop of
the stalemated Syrian war,
the group’s international
following says it’s time it
receives the recognition it
deserves.
“Honoring a group of
brave, and for the most part,
anonymous humanitarians
represents the true values of
the Nobel Peace Prize,” said
Wendy Chamberlain, presi-
dent of the Washington-based
Middle East Institute, who
nominated the group to the
Nobel committee, which
will announce its selection in
October.
Saleh says winning
the Peace Prize would be
a “morale boost,” though
greater priorities loom.
“Whether or not we win,
we call for an end to the
killing of civilians through
indiscriminate attacks in any
area in Syria,” he said.
Politicians around the
world have praised the
group’s courage. Still, Saleh
was denied entry to the
United States to receive a
humanitarian award in April,
an incident supporters blame
on a social media smear
campaign connecting the
group to al-Qaida.
After that incident, the
U.S. State Department
said the U.S. government
provides, through USAID,
$23 million in aid to the
White Helmets.
Fadlallah was a construc-
tion worker before the war,
but now nearly every able-
bodied Syrian has become a
rescuer. The White Helmets
come from diverse walks of
life; there are among them
carpenters, students, lawyers,
and doctors.
“God watches over us,”
Fadlallah said. “And the best
organization there is, is the
Civil Defense.”
U.N. acknowledges role in spreading
cholera in Haiti, plans to assist victims
PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti (AP) — A U.N.
acknowledgement that it
played a role in introducing
cholera to Haiti and
vows to aid victims were
welcomed Friday in the
Caribbean nation, which
has experienced the worst
outbreak of the disease in
recent history.
While the number of
cholera cases has been
signiicantly reduced from
the initial outbreak in 2010,
the fact that the preventable
disease is still routinely
sickening
and
killing
Haitians is galling to many.
“The U.N. brought this
sickness to Haiti so they
need to pay the country
back. A lot of people got
sick, a lot have died,” said
Michelle Raymond, who
said her young son nearly
died of the waterborne
disease in 2013.
This week, deputy
spokesman Farhan Haq
acknowledged the United
Nations’ “own involvement”
in the introduction of cholera
to impoverished Haiti and
pledged that “a signiicantly
new set of U.N. actions”
will be presented in the next
two months.
On Friday, Haq added
that “the United Nations has
a moral responsibility to the
victims.”
He said Secretary-
General Ban Ki-moon is
developing a package that
would provide “material
assistance” to cholera
victims in Haiti, indicating
for the irst time that some
people might get inancial
help from the U.N.
For years the U.N. had
denied or been silent on
longstanding
allegations
that it was responsible for the
outbreak, while answering
lawsuits in U.S. courts by
claiming immunity under a
1946 convention.
Haq reiterated that the
world body’s legal position
on immunity has not
changed.
7:18 a.m. - Emergency workers freed a woman
from a crash off Highway 206 near milepost 79.
Oregon State Police reported the glare of the sun
blinded the 64-year-old woman, leading to the
Chevrolet Trailblazer drifting off the right shoulder
and rolling down a steep embankment where it
crashed onto the driver’s side, trapping her.
Two children who were in the Chevrolet climbed
out unharmed. State police did not report if the
woman required medical treatment.
7:48 a.m.- A Hermiston mother told police her
son ran away on Northeast Fourth Street. She said
his grandmother brought him home and moments
later he took off on foot toward Main Street while
wearing a red t-shirt “with batmobile and shorts
(and) bright blue sneakers.”
8:13 a.m. - Umatilla County dispatch received
a report of an illegal burn at 372 E. Ginney Ave.,
Hermiston.
9:08 a.m. - A caller reported an old theft of a
Kubota four-wheeler from a residence on Bensel
Road, Hermiston.
12:45 p.m. - Hermiston police received a report
of a black rottweiler locked inside a black Mercury
Cougar with the windows opened just a crack in
the parking lot at the Dollar Tree Store, 880 S.
Highway 395, in the Hermiston Plaza.
2:58 p.m. - An Athena caller reported she went
to mow her lawn on West High Street and found
two marijuana plants.
3:18 p.m. - A call came into Hermiston police
about two dogs in a hot car with windows “cracked”
open in the parking lot at Safeway, 990 S. Highway
395, which also is in the Hermiston Plaza.
3:54 p.m. - An employee at Washington
Federal, 305 E. Main St., Hermiston, told police a
male parked his vehicle in the bank’s drive-through,
changed his clothes, stuffed something in his pants
and took off running towards Restaurant La Palma,
231 E. Hurlburt Ave., and left the vehicle.
4:31 p.m. - A man reported someone broke
into his vehicle on Tuesday night on East Darwin
Street, Athena, and stole his pistol, knife, and
more.
6:39 p.m. - A daughter on Filmore Street,
Umatilla, reported her parents were ighting and
her father was “putting hands on” her mother.
8:50 p.m. - A 9-1-1 caller reported three females
threatened to jump off the Interstate 82 bridge at
Umatilla, but he said he was driving by and had no
other details.
10:06 p.m. - Dogs tried all day to escape their
residence on East Sandstone Avenue, Hermiston,
a caller reported, adding there could be something
wrong.
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
•Oregon State Police cited Travis David Love,
43, of Hermiston, for driving under the inluence
of intoxicants. His blood-alcohol content was .20
percent, according to state police, more than twice
the legal limit of .08 percent.
•A trafic stop led to the arrest of a Boardman
man wanted for rape.
An Oregon State Police trooper at 11:45 p.m.
pulled over a white Hyundai Tiburon after the driver
failed to dim bright headlights on Highway 730 and
a frontage road. The trooper checked to see if the
driver, 24-year-old Mariano Morales Hernandez,
had any warrants.
He had one — a Marion County Circuit Court
warrant for two counts of second-degree rape, a
major felony in Oregon.
The trooper arrested Hernandez and booked
him into the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton.
COURTS
SUITS FILED
PENDLETON — The following
suits have been iled in Umatil-
la County courts:
•Foxwood
Financial
LLC
vs. Philip J. Herrera: seeks
$1,878.60 plus interest, costs
and fees.
•Automated Accounts Inc. vs.
Silvia Castillo; seeks $6,450.74
plus interest, costs and fees.
•Bank of America N.A. vs. Deb-
ra L. Berry; seeks $14,034.50
plus interest, costs and fees.
•Bank of America N.A. vs. Nan-
cy E. Gomez; seeks $7,416.13
plus interest, costs and fees.
•Bank of America N.A. vs.
Poum Pin; seeks $11,754.13
plus interest, costs and fees.
•Capital One Bank N.A. vs. You-
bany Razon Martinez; seeks
$2,321.46 plus interest, costs
and fees.
•Credits Inc. vs. Mina and
Christopher J. Leblanc; seeks
$3,174.27 plus interest, costs
and fees.
•Credits Inc. vs. Dustin and
Meloney Miller; seeks $470.81
plus interest, costs and fees.
•Credits Inc. vs. Clarissa Laz-
cano-Ramirez; seeks $1,953.67
plus interest, costs and fees.
•Oregon One Inc. vs. Michael
T. Peden; seeks $5,607.89 plus
interest, costs and fees.
•United Finance Co. vs. Richard
Smith; seeks $2,424.47 plus in-
terest, costs and fees.
•State of Oregon acting by/
through State Accident Insur-
ance Fund Corporation vs.
Wyatt Enterprises LLC; seeks
$24,710.25 plus interest, costs
and fees.
•Portfolio Recovery Associates
LLC vs. Sharon Smith; seeks
$1,547.14 plus interest, costs
and fees.
•Portfolio Recovery Associ-
ates LLC vs. Wendy Robinson;
seeks $1,986.55 plus interest,
costs and fees.
•Portfolio Recovery Associ-
ates LLC vs. Alaina Siler; seeks
$1,121.68 plus interest, costs
and fees.
•Portfolio Recovery Associates
LLC vs. Maria M. Phipps; seeks
$3,013.90 plus interest, costs
and fees.
•Portfolio Recovery Associates
LLC vs. Jonathan M. Crosby;
seeks $5,733.02 plus interest,
costs and fees.
•Springleaf Financial Services
Inc. vs. Carrie J. and Michael S.
Hlawek; seeks $2,330.31 plus
interest, costs and fees.
•Portfolio Recovery Associates
LLC vs. Faith Quinlin; seeks
$1,174.50 plus interest, costs
and fees.
•Portfolio Recovery Associates
LLC vs. Ronald Harris; seeks
$6,225.95 plus interest, costs
and fees.
JUDGMENTS
PENDLETON — The following
judgments have been rendered
in Umatilla County courts:
•Credits Inc. vs. Chance L. Pen-
nock: judgment for $2,389.89
•Credits Inc. vs. Kristi L. Law-
son: judgment for $560.44
•Credits Inc. vs. John and Fay-
rine McGregor: judgment for
$6,074.75
•Credits Inc. vs. Darcy and El-
len Vandever: judgment for
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•Credits Inc. vs. Coleman and
Ilene Miracle: judgment for
$2,601.52
•Credits Inc. vs. Davina Loos:
judgment for $1,656.41
•Credits Inc. vs. Anthony Her-
nandez: judgment or $710.83
•Credits Inc. vs. Terry Smith;
judgment for $2,095.01
•Credits Inc. vs. Mark A.
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•Evergreen Financial vs. Adela
Ambriz Mendoza; judgment
for $4,590.59
•Credits Inc. vs. Joshua Herrig;
judgment for $1,561.81
•Credits Inc. vs. Teresa La
Pierre; judgment for $8.575.54
•Credits Inc. vs. John and Jac-
que Dompier; judgment for
$10,000
•United Finance Co. vs. An-
thony Wilson; judgment for
$1,869.01
•Nationwide Recovery Service
Inc. vs. Michael Stowell; judg-
ment for $4,803.28
•Credits Inc. vs. Michael W. and
Fern Hendrickson; judgment
for $9,900.83
•Credits Inc. vs. Amanda Garib-
ay; judgment for $1,603.06
•Credits Inc. vs. Brian Holtz;
judgment for $1,984.83
•Credits Inc. vs. Stephen Ar-
nold; judgment for $968.83
•Nationwide Recovery Service
Inc. vs. Trae M. Baker; judg-
ment for $3,903.76
•Credits Inc. vs. Michael M.
Griggs; judgment for $1,246.04
•Credits Inc. vs. Benjamin S.
Cook; judgment for $1,200.58
SENTENCES
PENDLETON — The following
felony sentences have been
imposed in Umatilla County
courts:
•David Anders Bjurlin, 31, Ken-
newick, Wash., pleaded guilty
to Assault III: sentenced to 25
months Oregon Dept. of Cor-
rections, 2 years post-prison
supervision and $200 ine.
•Kaylyn Rose Garrett, 21,
Weston, pleaded guilty to Theft
I: sentenced to 2 years proba-
tion, 100 hours community ser-
vice, $500 ine, $1,500 ine-sus-
pended and $1,685 restitution.
•Jared Lee Balderston, 26,
Hermiston, pleaded guilty to
Identity Theft: sentenced to 18
months probation, 90 sanction
units, 30 maximum jail units,
80 hours community service,
$300 ine and $2,700 ine-sus-
pended, plus court costs and
fees; pleaded guilty to Posses-
sion of Forged Instrument II:
sentenced to $100 ine.
•Amanda Kay Tallent, 34, La
Grande, pleaded guilty to Fail-
ure to Appear I: sentenced to 2
years probation, 120 sanction
units, 60 maximum jail units,
100 hours community service,
$300 ine and $1,700 ine-sus-
pended.
•Troy Andrew Dorgan, 29,
Pendleton, pleaded guilty
to Unlawful Use of Weapon
Against Another and Coercion:
sentenced to 3 years probation,
180 sanction units, 90 maxi-
mum jail units and $200 ine
for each count, and 120 hours
community service; pleaded
guilty to Menacing: sentenced
to 30 days jail.
•Junior Espain Covarrubias, 30,
Hermiston, pleaded no contest
to Identity Theft: sentenced to
90 days jail, 1 year post-prison
supervision and $200 ine, plus
court costs and fees.
DIVORCES
PENDLETON — Divorce de-
crees were signed in Umatilla
County Courts for:
Stefani K. Whitcomb and Wil-
liam R. Whitcomb; Jessica
Pirl Scott and Roland Edward
Scott; April Kristine Meadows
and Chad Michael Meadows;
Heath Conrad Edwards and
Jaime Leigh Bennett; David D.
Raymond and Patricia Lee Ray-
mond.
MARRIAGES
PENDLETON — Marriage li-
censes have been registered in
Umatilla County for:
Steven Alex Avila, 34, and Lau-
ra Jean Conner, 28, both of
Stanield.
Jordan Eugene Barthel, 21, and
Cayla Raelinn Ontiveros, 21,
both of Hermiston.
Jesus Manuel Diaz Diaz, 27, and
Selene Alejandra Urueta Coro-
na, 23, both of Milton-Freewa-
ter.
Tyler Lewis Doherty, 29, and
Lyndsey Nichole Becktold, 29,
both of Seattle.
Jamie Robert Hathaway, 35,
and Cara Jean Angell, 24, both
of Pilot Rock.
Russell Lee Holt, 37, and Rosa
Bautista, 29, both of Stanield.
Jonathon Keith Patterson, 29,
and Michelle Lee Childs, 26,
both of Hermiston.
Louie Dawayne Smith, 60, and
Joy Ann Bittner, 55, both of
Hermiston.
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