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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Wednesday, August 24, 2016 Crews fight flames in dry, windy West Court: Out-of-state license plates don’t justify police search YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Growing wildfires stoked by windy, dry conditions have destroyed buildings and forced evacua- tions in California, Washington, Montana and elsewhere. Here’s a look at the major wildfires in the West: OREGON A nearly 50-square-mile fire in Eastern Oregon near the Idaho state line was 60 percent contained and threatening Succor Creek State Park. Elsewhere, a 48½-square-mile blaze on national forest lands west of Unity was 40 percent surrounded. Firefighters successfully extinguished small spot fires that erupted as wind-blown embers crossed fire lines. WASHINGTON Gov. Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency for 20 Washington state counties in response to wildfires that threaten homes and natural resources. Inslee issued the declaration Tuesday after touring fire scenes in the Spokane region, where evacuations were called and more than a dozen homes have burned. Inslee noted that hot and windy weather conditions are forecast for the next seven days. WYOMING More firefighters headed to Yellow- stone and Grand Teton national parks, where large, growing wildfires have closed or threaten key roads and forced the evacuation of a large campground during a busy stretch of the summer tourist season. The blaze in Grand Teton park made a 5-mile run on Monday, forcing closure of a 10-mile stretch of U.S. 89-191-287 that leads into Yellowstone’s South Entrance. More than 4,000 vehicles come and go each day at the site along the main thoroughfare between Jackson and Yellowstone National Park. About 50 people have been evacuated from campgrounds and a lodge that rents cabins in the area. “This is the 100-year centennial of the National Park Service so there’s a lot of celebrations going on,” fire spokesman Brian Lawatch said. The road was expected to remain closed Tuesday as firefighters cleared debris and burned trees that might pose a hazard, he said. The main fire has burned about 10 square miles since it was started by light- ning last month. In neighboring Yellowstone, a fire grew near West Entrance Road. A team of fire managers was being brought in to help, although the fire was not yet being actively suppressed. All roads and major tourist areas in Yellowstone remained open as fire- fighters thinned trees and underbrush near the road. The fire was less than three miles from Madison Junction, an Associated Press Joe Johnston/The Tribune of San Luis Obispo Capt. Pat Gabler, with the Riverside Fire Department, quenches his thirst during mopping up duty for a wildfire along Lynch Canyon Road in Paso Robles, Calif., Tuesday. area that includes a campground, visitor facilities and staff housing. The fire has burned about 42 square miles since it was ignited by lightning on Aug. 8. CALIFORNIA A wildfire on California’s central coast grew to nearly 58 square miles Tuesday. At least 2,400 people remained under evacuation orders in San Luis Obispo and Monterey counties, where the stubborn blaze had destroyed at least 36 residences. Hearst Castle, the palatial ocean-view estate popular among tourists, remained closed because of its proximity to the flames. Several other fires in Central Cali- fornia have burned tens of thousands of acres of brush and prompted evacuations of campgrounds and recreation areas. Meanwhile, a fire in mountain areas east of Los Angeles that burned more than 100 homes was contained after charring nearly 57 square miles of drought-stricken brush. Investigators were seeking the cause of the blaze that broke out a week ago. Just north of Big Sur, California’s largest fire grew held steady at 135 square miles in rugged wilderness coast along Highway 1. More than 400 homes remained threatened by the fire. MONTANA Firefighters contained a blaze that threatened about two dozen homes in Missoula County. Evacuation orders for homes near Upper Grant Creek were lifted Tuesday afternoon but authorities asked non-res- idents to stay out of the area about 4 miles north of Interstate 90 to keep the roadways clear. A house trailer burned before the fire was contained but the person living there escaped, KECI-TV reported. Low humidity and gusting winds caused the rapid spread Monday of another fire in northwestern Montana near Lakeside. As many as 100 homes and structures were within a half-mile of the fire’s perimeter. Authorities ordered evacuations east of Thompson Falls after a fire doubled in size to nearly 11 square miles. IDAHO Authorities ordered evacuations in eastern Idaho where a wildfire burning rangeland and habitat of a threatened bird, the sage grouse, ballooned to 40 square miles. The evacuations were ordered east of Idaho Falls, where up to 70 buildings were threatened near U.S. Highway 26, the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. The office also was working with ranchers to get cattle out of the fire’s path. Sunday’s human-caused blaze appeared nearly contained but took off in the last several days due to dry conditions and winds of up to 40 mph. A central Idaho wildfire expanded to 150 square miles and residents of about 125 homes in the area remained under low-level evacuation notices. The fire burning timber in remote, mountainous backcountry was 50 percent contained and was expected to burn at least until the end of September. UTAH Crews were battling a small wildfire in northern Utah that was approaching a ski resort and a separate blaze in southern Utah burning through sage grouse habitat. MaryEllen Fitzgerald of the Uinta- Wasatch-Cache National Forest said Tuesday the fire near the Utah-Idaho state line is within a quarter-mile of Beaver Mountain Ski Resort. Didn’t receive your paper? Call 1-800-522-0255 before noon Tuesday through Friday or before 10 a.m. Saturday for same-day redelivery — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Copyright © 2016, EO Media Group REGIONAL CITIES Forecast FRIDAY THURSDAY Mostly sunny and nice Pleasant with abundant sunshine 85° 52° 87° 52° SATURDAY Plenty of sunshine Partly sunny and breezy PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 88° 58° 91° 59° 86° 55° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 91° 48° 90° 50° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 81° 86° 109° (1894) 46° 56° 34° (1910) 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" 0.07" 0.31" 7.39" 5.00" 8.30" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records HIGH LOW 84° 86° 103° (1956) 45° 56° 41° (1938) 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" 0.05" 0.15" 4.99" 3.25" 6.10" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Last New Aug 24 Sep 1 6:07 a.m. 7:47 p.m. 11:45 p.m. 1:31 p.m. First Full Sep 9 93° 64° 90° 58° Seattle 85/61 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 91° 57° Sep 16 Today SUNDAY Partly sunny and pleasant Spokane Wenatchee 80/56 86/61 Tacoma Moses 85/52 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 88/56 80/48 80/56 87/51 89/56 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 88/57 86/57 Lewiston 89/54 Astoria 85/56 79/56 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 91/61 Pendleton 77/46 The Dalles 90/50 85/52 93/58 La Grande Salem 81/44 93/58 Albany Corvallis 92/56 93/54 John Day 83/51 Ontario Eugene Bend 86/56 92/52 80/45 Caldwell Burns 84/50 81/41 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 Hi 79 78 80 70 81 77 92 82 90 83 84 81 78 97 67 68 86 90 85 91 83 93 80 77 90 86 89 Lo 56 40 45 51 41 46 52 46 50 51 45 44 45 58 52 50 56 52 52 61 42 58 56 39 62 57 56 W s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s Hi 81 80 80 71 81 79 96 84 91 87 83 84 81 99 75 78 85 90 87 93 84 96 82 79 91 87 89 Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 76 81 71 65 53 55 67 67 77 47 76 W pc s s pc t c s s pc r t Lo 56 37 46 51 41 46 56 47 48 53 44 47 43 59 55 51 52 50 52 61 43 58 57 38 62 58 55 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 Thu. 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Advertising Director: Jennine Perkinson 541-278-2669 • jperkinson@eastoregonian.com Advertising Services: Laura Jensen 541-966-0806 • ljensen@eastoregonian.com Multimedia Consultants: • Terri Briggs 541-278-2678 • tbriggs@eastoregonian.com • Amanda Jacobs 541-278-2683 • ajacobs@eastoregonian.com • Jeanne Jewett 541-564-4531 • jjewett@eastoregonian.com • Chris McClellan 541-966-0827 • cmcclellan@eastoregonian.com • Stephanie Newsom 541-278-2687 • snewsom@eastoregonian.com • Dayle Stinson 541-278-2670 • dstinson@eastoregonian.com • Audra Workman 541-564-4538 • aworkman@eastoregonian.com Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 TODAY WICHITA, Kan. — Law enforcement officials in Kansas cannot stop and search motorists just for having out-of- state license plates from states that have legalized marijuana, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit filed by a Colorado motorist, Peter Vasquez, against two Kansas Highway Patrol officers who pulled him over and searched his vehicle as he was driving alone at night through Kansas on his way to Maryland. The KHP officers, Richard Jimerson and Dax Lewis, stopped Vasquez when they could not read the temporary tag taped to the inside of the car’s tinted rear window. The officers contended they were justified in searching the vehicle because Vasquez was a citizen of Colo- rado driving on I-70, a “known drug corridor,” in a recently purchased, older-model car. They said he also seemed nervous. A divided panel found the officers violated Vasquez’s Fourth Amendment rights in searching his car without his consent. Nothing illegal was found. Twenty-five states permit marijuana use for medicinal purposes, with Colorado, Alaska, Oregon, Washington, and Washington, D.C., permitting some recre- ational use under state law, the court noted. The officers’ reasoning would justify the search and seizure of citizens of half of the states in the country, the court said, adding it is “wholly improper” to assume someone is more likely to commit a crime because of his state of residence. “Accordingly, it is time to abandon the pretense that state citi- zenship is a permissible basis upon which to justify the detention and search of out-of-state motorists, and time to stop the practice of detention of motorists for nothing more than an out-of-state license plate,” the ruling states. A lower court had ruled the officers were entitled to qualified immunity when it threw out the case, but the appeals court disagreed and sent it back for further proceedings. 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. 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