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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SUNDAY TODAY MONDAY Partly sunny and smoky Dimmed sunshine, warm and smoky 91° 59° 94° 61° TUESDAY Hazy sun Mostly sunny PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 92° 66° 93° 63° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 96° 60° 93° 54° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 89° 87° 108° (2008) 65° 57° 37° (1915) 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 Trace Trace 0.22" 6.49" 11.37" 8.17" Corvallis 85/53 through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 90° 88° 107° (2008) 64° 57° 42° (1969) Aug 18 Aug 26 Last 5:59 a.m. 7:58 p.m. 2:20 p.m. none New Sep 2 Sep 9 Bend 89/50 Caldwell 92/55 Hi 67 90 89 69 89 86 86 88 93 90 89 88 86 95 63 66 93 92 91 84 90 86 87 86 84 92 91 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 Lo 55 48 50 53 42 50 53 56 54 56 51 50 45 58 53 55 58 54 59 58 49 54 60 45 56 64 55 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. W c pc pc pc s pc pc pc pc s pc pc pc pc pc s s s pc pc s pc pc pc pc pc pc Hi 69 93 89 66 92 89 84 91 96 93 90 91 89 92 61 64 95 95 94 87 91 88 90 89 87 95 93 Lo 55 53 54 52 49 53 54 59 60 55 49 54 51 56 54 55 61 56 61 61 52 57 62 50 58 67 59 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc s pc pc s s pc s s s pc s s pc pc pc s s s pc s pc pc s pc s pc WORLD CITIES Today Hi 82 87 84 74 75 74 79 84 90 72 83 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 71 81 67 61 56 54 56 67 73 48 69 Sun. W pc t s pc pc pc s s pc s pc Hi 79 88 84 74 75 77 84 85 90 61 84 Lo 72 81 67 61 55 60 61 68 75 46 71 W c t s c t s s s pc s pc WINDS Medford 95/58 0.03" 0.03" 0.11" 5.13" 6.65" 6.03" SUN AND MOON John Day 90/56 Ontario 93/58 Burns 89/42 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today First Full Albany 87/54 Eugene 86/53 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° 61° Spokane Wenatchee 87/60 90/63 Tacoma Moses 80/53 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 92/57 85/53 71/55 83/50 91/55 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 81/55 92/64 Lewiston 92/55 Astoria 93/61 67/55 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 84/58 Pendleton 86/50 The Dalles 93/54 91/59 92/62 La Grande Salem 88/50 86/54 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 96° 67° Seattle 80/58 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 99° 63° Today WEDNESDAY Partly sunny 95° 63° Saturday, August 18, 2018 Today Sunday WSW 4-8 WNW 6-12 N 4-8 NNW 6-12 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 89/51 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Sunshine in central parts today; partly sunny across the north. Clouds, then sun in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: Dimmed sunshine and smoky today; cloudy in the morning, then some sun near the Cascades in the afternoon. Western Washington: Hazy sunshine today; smoky. Clear tonight, but areas of low clouds at the coast. Eastern Washington: Hazy sunshine and smoky today. Clear tonight; smoky. Cascades: Hazy sun and smoky today. Clear tonight; smoky in central parts. Hazy sun tomorrow. Northern California: Clouds, then sun at the coast today; hazy in central parts. Sunny in the interior mountains. 2 4 6 6 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation: 541-966-0828 Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group 2 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 4 -10s -0s 0s showers t-storms 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: Showers, gusty thunderstorms and the risk of flooding downpours are likely to extend from the South Central states to the coastal areas of the Northeast today. Heavy, gusty storms will occur over the Rockies. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 108° in Needles, Calif. Low 34° 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 90 84 88 88 78 84 92 85 90 79 84 80 98 83 85 95 68 90 91 95 83 92 88 106 90 88 Lo 66 71 74 69 57 72 63 68 76 67 66 67 79 55 66 76 45 62 75 77 65 72 69 84 73 72 W t t t t t t s t t t pc sh pc t sh t pc pc sh s c t pc s pc pc Sun. 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State regulators will hold pub- lic hearings in five cities often affected by smoke from wildfires. Under the proposals, there would no longer be a strict ban against allowing controlled burns projected to cause visible smoke in nearby communities. Instead, these prescribed fires would have to remain under certain state and federal clean-air standards. “We believe that will give us increased flexibility for using prescribed fire while still pro- tecting communities,” said Peter Daugherty, who heads the Oregon Department of Forestry. That agency is working with the Department of Environmental Quality on a rewrite of the rules governing prescribed fires, which are often used to reduce grasses and other underbrush in forests particularly prone to wildfires. There has been increased inter- est in using fire as a tool to help reduce the number and magnitude of wildfires. More than a century of fire suppression is a big factor in creating more densely stocked forests, which are now even more prone to burn in the drier, hotter conditions brought on by climate change. Daugherty said in some cases, the new standards could be breached for one-hour periods in communities particularly vulnera- ble to wildfire if they develop pro- grams to protect vulnerable pop- ulations. This includes such steps as providing community warn- ings of prescribed fires and indoor locations providing filtered air. Carrie Nyssen, senior direc- tor of advocacy for the Ameri- can Lung Association in Oregon, served on the advisory committee that developed the rules. She said she understands the need to use fire as a tool to reduce fuel loads in the forest, but she said her orga- nization couldn’t support the new rules. “I don’t think the Lung Asso- ciation could ever get to a place where we support prescribed burning,” she said, calling it a “tough issue” with “no perfect “We believe that will give us increased flex- ibility for using prescribed fire while still protecting communities” — Peter Daugherty Head of the Oregon De- partment of Forestry path.” Nyssen said the Lung Associ- ation wants to ensure that there is good community notice about the dangers of smoke, and that particularly vulnerable groups — like kids in daycare and seniors in long-term care — are in buildings with air filters. Mark Stern, Oregon forest con- servation director for the Nature Conservancy, was among those pushing for more flexibility in the rules. “I think the idea that we can have zero tolerance to smoke of prescribed fire … is just a little out of kilter,” Stern said, “given that we’re in an era where we’re facing more wildland fires” pro- ducing extremely unhealthy lev- els of smoke. Stern noted that most con- trolled burns are conducted in spring and fall, when the weather is cooler, and the fires burn less intensely than during the height of fire season. He pointed to a chart showing air quality in Bend in 2017. The city’s air remained in the healthy zone during three nearby prescribed burns, but spiked into unhealthy levels when it was hit with smoke from wild- fires in August and September. Richard Whitman, director of the Department of Environmental Quality, said he is also concerned about degrading air quality. The “devil in the detail here is how to do more prescribed burn- ing,” he said, “but do it in a way that’s smart and that does not create unexpected problems in communities.” Some fire experts have called for a several-fold increase in con- trolled burns, which now on aver- age cover about 167,000 acres a year, according to the Department of Forestry. Daugherty said he was unsure how much the practice might increase in Oregon if the rules are loosened. One indication, he said, is that there were applica- tions to burn more than 200,000 acres a year but not all of that work cold be completed. Some of that, he said, is due to the strict- ness of Oregon’s smoke manage- ment rules. Five public hearings will be held around Oregon, starting on Tuesday in La Grande at 7 p.m. at the OSU Extension Service office, 10507 N. McAlister Road. Comments may also be submitted online and by mail. The comment period closes at 4 p.m., Sept. 14. The new rules need to be approved by both the state Board of Forestry and by the Environ- mental Quality Commission. Officials hope that they will be in use by the spring of 2019. BRIEFLY Three people killed in a two-car crash near Madras hospital. Authorities say the crash happened around 2 a.m. MADRAS (AP) — Three people were killed in a two-car collision near on U.S. Highway 97 near Madras. Two of the victims were girls under the age of 18. A car driven by 33-year- old Sarah Marie Steffler, of Moses Lake, Washington, crossed the centerline early Friday morning and crashed into a guardrail before col- liding with a car driven by Miguel Galvan Sanchez of Manson, Washington. Steffler and her young passenger died, as well as a girl in Sanchez’s car. The two young vic- tims have not yet been identified. Sanchez and another passenger were taken by helicopter to a Bend 1 dead, 2 hospitalized after ingesting unknown drug JACKSONVILLE (AP) — One man is dead and two people are hospitalized after overdosing on an unknown drug before a concert at the Britt Music & Arts Festival in Jacksonville. KTVL-TV reports Friday that two separate calls were made for medical assistance on Thursday night and one woman and two men were taken to the hospital by ambulance. The station says Jackson- ville police believe the three people took the same drug. The festival says the three people were together and told paramedics they took the drug before arriving. The surviving individu- als are recovering at Rogue Regional Medical Center. The festival runs for three weeks in Jacksonville and features a wide variety of artists. The overdoses happened during a performance by Rebelution, a California reggae group. at Burnt Peak in Jackson County, in the southwestern corner of the state. The unknown suspect could face state charges and possible federal penalties from the Federal Aviation Administration. Cougar fatally shot after killing sheep, Officials search for turkey near Bend BEND (AP) — A farmer person who flew near Bend shot and killed drone over wildfire a cougar Monday after it TRAIL (AP) — Author- ities are searching for the person who flew a drone over a helicopter that was dropping water on a wildfire in Oregon. There is a temporary flight restriction for drones over all wildfires because they can interfere with fire- fighting work being done by air tankers and helicopters. The incident happened killed two Shetland sheep and a turkey on his property. The Bend Bulletin reported Thursday that Mark Davidson found the dead sheep Monday hidden under sticks and pine nee- dles in a pasture closest to his house. He spotted the dead turkey near a barn. Later Monday, Candy Davidson let their dog out- side and checked on the sheep. Her flashlight caught glowing eyes and she ran inside to tell her husband, who shot the cougar with a .22-caliber rifle. The couple as required by law later contacted the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Assistant district wild- life biologist Randy Lewis responded and determined the cougar was a healthy 3-year-old male. State law says a land- owner in Oregon is allowed to kill a cougar if it is caus- ing damage to their property. Clarification The East Oregonian in the Aug. 10, 2018 story “Senior’s mettle tested in elder abuse case” identified Jackie McCoy as Steve Steele’s caretaker. McCoy said Steele lives with her and her family, but she is not his caretaker. Hermiston August 31, September 1 & 2, 2018 Class of 1958 For information call High School Reunion Rita J. Walker 541-567-5356
