WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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51
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53
61
63
62
52
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52
66
59
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62
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
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103
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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
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Lo
77
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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
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8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
Northern California: Clouds, then sun at
the coast today; hot in central parts. Hazy
elsewhere.
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snow
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warm front stationary front
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low
National Summary: Thunderstorms are forecast for parts of the Atlantic and northeastern
Gulf coasts, as well as parts of the Rockies, High Plains and lower central and southern
Plains. Searing heat will continue in the West.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 116° in Needles, Calif.
Low 35° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
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
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84
86
79
92
98
81
90
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77
101
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76
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89
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91
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110
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78
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80
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100
79
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101
81
80
89
97
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Louisville
84
Memphis
89
Miami
88
Milwaukee
78
Minneapolis
80
Nashville
87
New Orleans
94
New York City
84
Oklahoma City
89
Omaha
74
Philadelphia
86
Phoenix
107
Portland, ME
78
Providence
83
Raleigh
88
Rapid City
72
Reno
100
Sacramento
101
St. Louis
82
Salt Lake City
96
San Diego
79
San Francisco
71
Seattle
87
Tucson
97
Washington, DC 87
Wichita
86
Lo
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Tornados of flame burn California city
Two killed as blaze
rips through Redding
By JONATHAN J. 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.
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