WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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.
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New
Sep 2
Sep 9
Bend
89/50
Caldwell
92/55
Hi
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90
89
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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
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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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
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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.
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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
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Louisville
84
Memphis
87
Miami
89
Milwaukee
78
Minneapolis
87
Nashville
85
New Orleans
90
New York City
84
Oklahoma City
88
Omaha
88
Philadelphia
86
Phoenix
104
Portland, ME
77
Providence
87
Raleigh
90
Rapid City
80
Reno
97
Sacramento
98
St. Louis
87
Salt Lake City
88
San Diego
83
San Francisco
74
Seattle
80
Tucson
97
Washington, DC 89
Wichita
91
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Oregonians can weigh in on new proposed smoke management rules
By JEFF MAPES
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Oregonians will have the
chance to weigh in on proposed
new smoke management rules
that could ease the way for more
controlled burns aimed at reduc-
ing the threat of major wildfires.
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.
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