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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.
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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
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Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
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Tokyo
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Klamath Falls
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Boardman
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Sunshine and patchy
clouds today. Warmer in the south; pleasant
across the north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny much
of the time and pleasant today. Clear
tonight. Plenty of sun tomorrow.
Western Washington: Sunshine today. Clear
tonight. Plenty of sun tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today
with a shower in spots in the afternoon.
Clear tonight.
Cascades: Plenty of sunshine today. Clear
tonight. Abundant sunshine tomorrow;
pleasant.
Northern California: Clouds, then sun at
the coast today; hot in central parts. Sunny
elsewhere.
Today
Thursday
NNE 4-8
NNW 6-12
NE 6-12
N 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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control device following a two-vehicle crash Aug. 11
in Pendleton. Instead, state police cited Tracy Glen
Harris, 49, of Pendleton, for the violation. OSP provided
inaccurate information for the citation, which the East
Oregonian used in the Aug. 13 public safety log.
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Initiative Review Commission voted Sunday to endorse
Measure 97 in the state voters’ guide. In fact, a citizens
panel invited by the commission to review the corporate
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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.
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0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
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Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016
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showers t-storms
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20s
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70s
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warm front stationary front
110s
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National Summary: Spotty storms will erupt in the humid air from Florida to Louisiana and
Tennessee today. Locally severe storms will extend from Michigan to Oklahoma and north-
western Texas. Most other areas will be dry.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 104° in Imperial, Calif.
Low 24° in Stanley, Idaho
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
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Louisville
88
Memphis
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Miami
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Milwaukee
84
Minneapolis
84
Nashville
93
New Orleans
93
New York City
87
Oklahoma City
92
Omaha
82
Philadelphia
88
Phoenix
102
Portland, ME
86
Providence
86
Raleigh
88
Rapid City
73
Reno
90
Sacramento
90
St. Louis
93
Salt Lake City
84
San Diego
76
San Francisco
70
Seattle
85
Tucson
96
Washington, DC 88
Wichita
88
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