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Page 8A NATION East Oregonian Friday, November 9, 2018 Tens of thousands flee Northern California fire By DON THOMPSON Associated Press OROVILLE, Calif. — Tens of thousands of peo- ple fled a fast-moving wild- fire Thursday in Northern California, some clutching babies and pets as they aban- doned vehicles and struck out on foot ahead of the flames that forced the evacu- ation of an entire town. Everyone in Paradise, a community of 27,000 people about 180 miles northeast of San Francisco, was ordered to get out. As she fled, Gina Oviedo described a devas- tating scene in which flames engulfed homes, sparked explosions and toppled util- ity poles. “Things started explod- ing,” Oviedo said. “People started getting out of their vehicles and running.” Authorities were working on a plan to remove patients from a hospital after rescuers had to turn back because of gridlocked traffic. “It’s a very dangerous and very serious situation,” Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said. “I’m driving through fire as we speak. We’re doing everything we can to get people out of the affected areas.” Shari Bernacett said her husband tried to get people to leave the Paradise mobile home park they manage and had minutes to evacuate. He “knocked on doors, yelled and screamed” to alert as many residents as possi- ble, Bernacett said. “My husband tried his best to get everybody out. The whole hill’s on fire. God help us!” she said before breaking down crying. She and her husband grabbed their dog, jumped in their AP Photo/Don Thompson Smoke from the Camp Fire, burning in the Feather Riv- er Canyon near Paradise, Calif., darkens the sky as seen from Highway 99 near Marysville, Calif., on Thursday. pickup truck and drove through flames before get- ting to safety, she said. Officials were sending as many firefighters as they could, Cal Fire spokesman Rick Carhart said. “Every engine that we could put on the fire is on the fire right now, and more are coming,” he said. “There are dozens of strike teams that we’re bringing in from all parts of the state.” The blaze destroyed an unknown number of struc- tures and injured some peo- ple, but the extent of the injuries was not immediately known, said Capt. John Gad- die of the California Depart- ment of Forestry and Fire Protection. The sheriff confirmed reports that evacuees had to abandon their vehicles. He said rescuers were trying to put them in other vehicles. “We’re working very hard to get people out. The message I want to get out is if you can evacuate, you need to evacuate,” Honea said. The wildfire was reported around daybreak. Within six hours, it had grown to more than 26 square miles, Gad- die said. “The blaze is being driven by fairly strong winds,” Car- hart said. “It’s really dry and we have low humidity, and unfortunately those are great conditions for a fire to spread.” Thick gray smoke and ash filled the sky above Par- adise and could be seen from miles away. At the hospital with the stranded patients, some buildings caught fire and were damaged, but the main facility, Adventist Health Feather River Hospital, was not, spokeswoman Jill Kin- ney said. Four hospital employ- ees were briefly trapped in the basement and rescued by California Highway Patrol officers, Kinney said. More than 40 patients were evacuated to other facilities. Twenty others were still awaiting rescue. The National Weather Service issued red-flag warn- ings for fire dangers in many areas of the state, saying low humidity and strong winds were expected to continue through Friday evening. Switch and get iPhone X R AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File In this Aug. 15, 2012 file photo, a legal immigrant reads a guide of the conditions needed to apply for Obama- era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) pro- gram at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, CHIRLA offices in Los Angeles. A U.S. appeals court ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump cannot immediately end the Obama-era program shielding young immigrants from deportation. Federal appeals court rules against Trump on DACA policy By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A U.S. appeals court blocked President Donald Trump on Thursday from immedi- ately ending an Obama-era program shielding young immigrants from deporta- tion, saying the administra- tion’s decision was arbitrary because it was based on a flawed legal theory. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously kept a preliminary injunction in place against Trump’s decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Child- hood Arrivals program. Lawsuits by California and others challenging the administration’s decision will continue in federal court while the injunction remains in place. The U.S. Supreme Court could eventually decide the fate of DACA, which has protected some 700,000 people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children or came with families that overstayed visas. In Thursday’s ruling, 9th Circuit Judge Kim Wardlaw said California and other plaintiffs were likely to suc- ceed with their claim that the decision to end it was arbi- trary and capricious. She said the court was not trying to infringe on the president’s power to enforce immigration law, but wanted to enable the exercise of that authority “in a manner that is free from legal mis- conceptions and is demo- cratically accountable to the public.” The Trump administra- tion has said it moved to end the program last year because Texas and other states threatened to sue, rais- ing the prospect of a chaotic end to DACA. An email to the U.S. Department of Justice was not immediately returned. Trump’s decision to end DACA prompted lawsuits across the nation, includ- ing one by California. A judge overseeing that law- suit and four others ruled against the administration and reinstated the program in January. U.S. District Judge Wil- liam Alsup rejected the argu- ment that then-President Barack Obama had exceeded his power in creating DACA and said the Trump adminis- tration failed to consider the disruption that ending the program would cause. The administration then asked the 9th Circuit to throw out Alsup’s ruling. During a hearing in May, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Hashim Mooppan argued that the courts could not review the administra- tion’s decision to end DACA and defended the move against assertions that it was arbitrary and capricious. “It’s a question of an agency saying, ‘We’re not going to have a policy that might well be illegal,”’ Mooppan told the judges. “That is a perfectly rational thing to do.” Mooppan said the admin- istration was under no obli- gation to consider the fact that people had come to rely on DACA. The judges on the 9th Circuit panel appeared skep- tical of the argument that the DACA decision was beyond the court’s authority to review. 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