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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Friday, January 26, 2018 Wild turkeys trot through downtown Eugene EUGENE (AP) — A pair of wild turkeys strolled through downtown Eugene, spurring onlookers to do double takes or to stop and snap photos. The male and female turkeys paused outside the downtown federal building Tuesday afternoon, ducking under an entryway as slight rain fell, The Register-Guard reported . Eugene resident Eric Cowger was washing windows at the building on Sixth Avenue and High Street. He took photos when the large fowls neared. “You don’t really get that close to a wild turkey often,” Cowger said. “I guess that makes them not wild anymore — more like downtown pets.” While Eugene is home to a number of turkeys, they’re found in more abundance miles south of the city around Roseburg, said Michelle Dennehy, a spokes- woman for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. Man shot at veterans clinic during altercation “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing — there’s a turkey, just window shopping.” SALEM (AP) — A man said to be a mili- tary veteran seeking mental health care was shot by a security officer at a Veterans Affairs clinic in southern Oregon on Thursday after an admissions area altercation in which authorities said the man became combative. The man was flown to a hospital after the shooting in the southwestern community of White City with injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening, the Jackson County sheriff’s office said in a statement. Shawn Quall, an Army veteran of the first Gulf War who is from Bend, Oregon, said he heard the man shouting before the situation escalated. “I was walking down the main hallway when I overheard a veteran yelling at intake people that he was here for the fifth time trying to get health care, and was upset at what he thought was a runaround,” Quall told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. Quall kept walking down the hall, but when the yelling got louder, he started running back and heard someone yell: “He’s got a knife!” “Then boom, a loud shot. I saw the guy holding his stomach and then fall to the ground,” Quall said. An officer told onlookers to leave, saying there was nothing to see. Sgt. Julie Denney of the sheriff’s office said she could not confirm that a knife was involved. “The details of the events leading to the shooting are still under investigation,” she said in a text message. VA police responded “after reports of a combative patient in the admissions area. An altercation ensued between the man and VA Police officers, resulting in the discharge of a firearm,” the sheriff’s office statement said. The man and the officers involved were not identified. Veterans at the clinic receiving treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and other issues expressed shock about the shooting. Outpatient Joel Setzer, a U.S. Army veteran who also served in Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf, said “this is the type of incident that should have never happened out there.” The VA Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center & Clinics says on its website that it “offers a variety of health services to meet the needs of our nation’s Veterans.” Quall said it’s not unusual to hear veterans arguing with the center’s staff. “Often you hear guys yelling,” he said. “It’s dealing with the federal government, and it is frustrating at times.” A spokeswoman for the clinic did not return telephone messages seeking comment. — Mike Conard, Eugene resident who recorded a video of the bird circulated online earlier this month. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing — there’s a turkey, just window shopping,” said Mike Conard, a Eugene resident who recorded a video of the bird. Last month, a pair of turkeys loitered outside the entrance to the Lane County Courthouse, said county spokeswoman Devon Ashbridge. The birds have occasionally appeared outside the building, but are more often observed in less populated areas, Ashbridge said. Chris Pietsch /The Register-Guard via AP In this Jan 23 photo, a turkey walks near the Federal Building in Eugene as employees leave for the day. The turkey and an- other have been seen in downtown Eugene, spurring onlook- ers to do double takes or to stop to snap photos. The turkeys may have entered into the urban core to find a food source, Dennehy said. Turkeys and other wildlife enter into new territories usually to search for food, she said. The turkeys have been spotted around Eugene before, and images of a lone turkey wandering about downtown Engineer says he misjudged train location in fatal wreck SEATTLE (AP) — An engineer told investigators he misjudged the location of an Amtrak train before it derailed in Washington state on a new high-speed route while traveling at nearly 80 mph — more than twice the speed limit around a curve, the National Transpor- tation Safety Board disclosed Thursday. In an NTSB summary of interviews with the engineer and conductor on duty during the deadly crash, the engineer said he knew the curve with a 30 mph speed restriction was at milepost 19.8 and he planned to start braking about a mile before reaching it. But he said he didn’t see a marker at milepost 18 or a nearby 30 mph speed warning sign. The engineer said he then misinter- preted another signal at the 19.8 milepost. He said he applied the brake as soon as he saw a 30 mph sign at the start of the curve, but the train derailed seconds later as it entered the 30 mph zone and plunged off an overpass and onto busy Interstate 5 — the Pacific Northwest’s main north-south highway. NTSB board member Bella Dinh-Zarr said days after the wreck that the locomotive’s emergency brake went off auto- matically and was not manually AP Photo/Elaine Thompson In this Dec. 18, 2017, file photo, cars from an Amtrak train lay spilled onto Interstate 5 below as some remain on the tracks above in DuPont, Wash. activated by the engineer. The summary says the engi- neer was qualified to operate the train on that new stretch of track and had completed at least seven observational trips and three trips during which he operated the train in the five weeks before the derailment. The fatal trip marked the second time the engineer had officially operated it going south- bound on the route. The summary involved interviews with the engineer and conductor, which took place about a month after they suffered serious injuries in the wreck. Three people were killed and dozens of others were hurt Dec. 18 on the route from Tacoma to Portland, Oregon. The train was carrying 85 passengers and crew members as it made its inaugural run along the fast, new 15-mile bypass route. The summary said the engi- neer and conductor were in the lead locomotive as the conductor underwent training and familiar- ized himself with the new route. Both said they felt well-rested. The engineer said he didn’t feel distracted by the conductor being in the locomotive. Neither man has been iden- tified by NTSB. However, the summary says the engineer was a 55-year-old man hired by Amtrak in 2004 as a conductor before 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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He said he looked up from his paperwork after hearing the engi- neer mumble out loud, just before the derailment, then sensed the train was going airborne. The conductor was hired by Amtrak as an assistant conductor in 2010 and was promoted to conductor the following year. He said he attended a job briefing with the engineer, going over general track bulletins and other items at the start of the shift. Garrick Freeman was identi- fied as the conductor after filing a lawsuit against Amtrak, claiming the company failed to provide a safe work environment. He said he suffered multiple broken ribs, a fractured clavicle and serious internal injuries during the derailment. NTSB said it will continue the investigation by comparing the crewmember accounts with information gained from videos and a data recorder, and will consider human performance and operations, as well as signals and train control, and track, engi- neering and mechanical factors. The investigation could take up to two years. 0 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. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 -10s -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: As the East turns milder, much of the Midwest will be warm and windy today. Showers will affect parts of Texas and Arkansas as snow is in store for parts of the Rockies. Rain will soak the coastal Northwest. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 79° in Fort Myers, Fla. Low -12° in Antero Reservoir, Colo. 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