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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SUNDAY TODAY MONDAY Hot with plenty of sunshine Hot with plenty of sunshine 97° 63° 100° 64° TUESDAY Mostly sunny and hot Plenty of sun PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 103° 69° 94° 60° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 103° 61° 101° 63° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 96° 90° 110° (1939) 64° 60° 41° (1894) 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" 0.00" 0.30" 6.49" 11.30" 7.88" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 100° 90° 112° (1939) 63° 60° 41° (1932) 0.00" 0.00" 0.19" 5.10" 6.59" 5.89" SUN AND MOON Aug 4 Aug 11 First Aug 18 5:34 a.m. 8:29 p.m. 9:10 p.m. 6:17 a.m. Full John Day 95/62 Ontario 100/66 Bend 93/55 Caldwell 99/61 Burns 93/52 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 69 94 93 65 93 90 91 94 101 95 93 93 91 98 61 66 100 99 97 92 96 92 91 90 89 98 97 Lo 55 51 55 51 52 53 53 61 63 62 52 55 51 64 50 52 66 59 63 64 52 59 63 50 61 69 62 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. W pc s s pc s s s s s s pc s s s c pc s s s s s s s s s s pc Hi 70 94 96 62 94 91 95 97 103 96 95 95 93 101 62 65 99 102 100 96 98 98 93 92 95 101 100 Lo 56 53 58 52 56 55 52 63 61 62 55 54 52 66 51 54 64 59 64 66 57 60 64 52 62 71 65 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc s s pc s s s s s s pc s s s pc c s s s s s s s s s s s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 91 91 81 73 74 84 80 86 95 70 83 Lo 77 82 67 59 56 68 62 68 79 56 81 Sun. W s t s t t c pc s pc pc r Hi 93 91 82 70 77 79 83 89 97 75 88 Lo 78 82 65 61 55 58 65 72 78 49 80 W pc t s sh t pc pc s s s sh WINDS Medford 98/64 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Last New Albany 90/56 Eugene 91/53 TEMPERATURE 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 98° 60° Spokane Wenatchee 91/63 95/69 Tacoma Moses 87/58 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 98/65 90/56 70/56 86/56 97/62 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 86/59 98/69 Lewiston 99/61 Astoria 97/64 69/55 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 92/64 Pendleton 90/53 The Dalles 101/63 97/63 98/66 La Grande Salem 93/55 92/59 Corvallis 89/56 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 106° 69° Seattle 87/63 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 107° 67° Today WEDNESDAY Partly sunny and hot 103° 66° Saturday, July 28, 2018 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 93/52 REGIONAL FORECAST Aug 26 Eastern Washington: Sunny to partly cloudy today. Clear tonight. Plenty of sun- shine tomorrow. Cascades: Sunny today. Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow; hot. Sunday NE 4-8 N 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Times of clouds and sun today, but low clouds followed by sunshine in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of sun today; hot. Clear tonight. Hot tomorrow with plenty of sun. Western Washington: Mostly sunny today, but sun and areas of low clouds at the coast. Today WSW 4-8 W 6-12 2 4 8 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 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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 92 91 84 86 79 92 98 81 90 80 80 77 101 83 79 97 76 78 89 97 80 91 75 110 84 88 Lo 69 68 69 66 55 69 63 71 76 60 64 61 80 59 62 76 54 56 76 76 62 75 62 89 69 68 W pc pc pc pc pc pc s pc t pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc s sh pc pc t t s pc pc Sun. 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COOPER and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press REDDING, Calif. — A wildfire that roared with lit- tle warning into a Northern California city claimed two lives as thousands of people scrambled to escape before the walls of flames descended from forested hills onto their neighborhoods, officials said Friday. Residents who gathered their belongings in haste described a chaotic and con- gested getaway as the fire leaped across the wide Sac- ramento River and torched subdivisions in Redding, a city of 92,000 about 100 miles south of the Oregon border. “I’ve never experienced something so terrifying in my life,” said Liz Williams, who loaded up two kids in her car and then found her- self locked in bumper-to- bumper traffic with neigh- bors trying to retreat from Lake Redding Estates. She eventually jumped the curb onto the sidewalk and “booked it.” “I didn’t know if the fire was just going to jump out behind a bush and grab me and suck me in,” Williams said. “I wanted out of here.” The blaze leveled doz- ens of homes, leaving neigh- borhoods smoldering and 37,000 people under evacua- tion orders. The flames moved so fast that firefighters working in oven-like temperatures and bone-dry conditions had to drop efforts to battle the blaze to help people escape. The fire, which created at least two flaming torna- dos that toppled trees, shook trucks and shattered win- dows, took “down every- thing in its path,” said Scott McLean, a spokesman for Cal Fire, the state agency responsible for fighting wildfires. Fire officials warned that the blaze would probably burn deeper into urban areas AP Photo/Noah Berger Firefighters discuss plans while battling the Carr Fire in Shasta, Calif., on Thursday. Fighting Oregon wildfires have cost state $25.3 million so far By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau SALEM — The state has spent $25.3 million on fighting wildfires this year, according to the Oregon Department of Forestry. Those are gross costs. The federal government will reimburse the state for some of that cost, but it can take years for the reimbursements to come through, a spokesman for ODF says. And that amount doesn’t include the agency’s “base budget” for fire protec- tion, which is about $48 million for per- manent personnel, equipment, facilities and the cost of fighting smaller fires. As of Friday, about 20,800 acres were burning in 585 fires across the state on ODF-protected lands. before there was any hope of containing it, though it either changed direction or was stopped before it could burn into the core of the city. The fire was likely to regain strength later in the day when temperatures were forecast to spike around 110 degrees and winds were expected to kick up. Redding sits at the north- ern end of the agricultural Central Valley, surrounded by a scenic landscape. Riv- A spokesman cautioned that those numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, as fires are dynamic by nature and their more precise size will take time to confirm. The Oregon Department of Forestry protects about 16 million acres of forest- land — both public and private — from fires. Over the past 10 years, the average number of fires on ODF-protected land on July 27 has been 416 fires, with 13,405 acres burning. The state agency maintains a public information site about the status of state wildfires at wildfireoregondeptofforestry. blogspot.com. You can also check on smoke condi- tions in your community and throughout the state at oregonsmoke.blogspot.com. ers channel abundant win- ter rainfall into massive res- ervoirs used for boating and fishing. The area’s stun- ning mountains, including snow-capped Mount Shasta, topping 14,000 feet, are a playground for outdoor enthusiasts. Lightning and even a lawn mower have sparked devastating fires in the for- ests that ring the peaks and lakes. The blaze that broke out Monday was caused by a mechanical issue involving a vehicle, officials said. The fire rapidly expanded Thursday when erratic flames swept through the historic Gold Rush town of Shasta and nearby Keswick, then cast the Sacramento River in an orange glow as they jumped the banks into Redding. Steve Hobson, a former firefighter, said flames on the distant hillside looked like solar flares on the sun. He had planned to stay behind to save his house on Lake Redding Drive. But the heat burned his skin, and smoke made it hard to breathe. He could feel the fire sucking the air from around him, whipping up swirling embers in a “fire tornado,” he said. He had to drive through walls of flaming embers on both sides of the street when he finally fled. A tree fell right in front of him. “I didn’t know if I’d make it so I just got in the middle of the street, went down the middle of the street through the embers and the smoke and made it past,” Hobson said. When he returned Fri- day, his fence had burned along with a backyard shed and everything inside it — Christmas ornaments, china and old televisions. But his house made it through the harrowing night. At least 66 homes were destroyed in Hobson’s neighborhood, according to an Associated Press sur- vey of damage. Aerial foot- age showed dozens of homes in ruins in Keswick Lake Estates. Some 5,000 other buildings were threatened, fire officials said. A firefighter with the Red- ding Fire Department was killed in Shasta County. Another firefighter hired to try to contain the flames with a bulldozer was killed Thurs- day, authorities said. Fire crews in Redding for a time abandoned any hope of containing the flames and instead focused on saving lives. “We’re not fighting a fire,” said Jonathan Cox, bat- talion chief with Cal Fire. “We’re trying to move peo- ple out of the path of it because it is now deadly, and it is now moving at speeds and in ways we have not seen before in this area.” Late Thursday, crews found the body of the bull- dozer operator who had been hired privately to clear veg- etation in the blaze’s path. He was the second bulldozer operator killed in a Califor- nia blaze in less than two weeks. FREE DENTAL DAY 11:00am -7:00pm, August 2nd, 2018 First come first serve. For patients with no insurance. Emergency care Only. 1100 Southgate, Suite 3, Pendleton OR 97801 541.276.5272
