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Saturday, January 26, 2019
New smoke rules to allow
more prescribed burns
EO file photo
A haze hangs over downtown Pendleton on Aug. 14, 2018, as smoke from regional wildfires
has inundated the region.
more flexibility to use fire to
restore forests.
Communities interested
in promoting prescribed
burns will also be able to
apply to state regulators for
exemptions to occasionally
allow higher hourly smoke
totals, which would provide
even more flexibility.
“We’ll be able to do the
amount of controlled burn-
said Department of Envi-
ronmental Quality director
Richard Whitman.
The new state stan-
dards still fall within federal
guidelines.
Support for the changes
has not been unanimous;
some health and air quality
advocates objected during
the rule-making process.
Still others asked for even
ing, which will occasion-
ally will put a small amount
of smoke for not a long time
into the community, just
because of weather condi-
tions,” said Ashland Mayor
John Stromburg.
Much of Ashland is sur-
rounded by fire-prone forests,
and the city has been proac-
tive in supporting work to
reduce the wildfire risk.
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Portland glass maker
settles class action lawsuit
for $6.5 million
PORTLAND (AP) — Prosecutors say
the actions by two police officers were jus-
tified in the deadly shooting of a man who
showed up with a gun at an Oregon middle
school amid a custody dispute.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports
Lane County District Attorney Patty Per-
low announced the finding Thursday, say-
ing 30-year-old Charles Landeros fired
first and caused the officers to fear for their
lives.
Perlow says Landeros refused to leave
Cascade Middle School in Eugene when
the school resource officers asked.
A struggle erupted when the officers
moved Landeros outside and told him he
was under arrest.
Perlow says Landeros pulled out a hand-
gun and fired two shots. An officer fired
once, striking Landeros in the head.
The prosecutor says Landeros’ daughter
and two other people witnessed the shoot-
ing. Other students were nearby.
PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland glass
manufacturer has settled a class action law-
suit brought by neighbors over concerns
about toxic air pollution.
Oregon Public Broadcasting reported
Thursday that the $6.5 million settlement
with Bullseye Glass Co. will allow for
cash payments for over 2,000 households
in southeast Portland neighborhoods sur-
rounding the glass maker.
In February 2016, the state ordered the
company to stop using some dangerous
chemicals after high levels of cadmium and
arsenic were detected around the plant. The
complaint filed in March 2016 alleged that
Bullseye released arsenic, cadmium and
other potentially toxic heavy metals from
its plant over decades.
The company has installed new filtration
systems and said in a news release that the
company is now “in compliance with the
most stringent federal and state emissions
standards.”
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VANCOUVER, Wash.
— The number of con-
firmed measles cases near
Portland grew to 30 on Fri-
day — an outbreak boosted
by lower-than-normal vacci-
nation rates in what’s been
identified as an anti-vacci-
nation U.S. “hot spot.”
Public health officials in
southwest Washington, just
across the Columbia River
from Portland, said peo-
ple may have been exposed
to the dangerous disease
at more than three dozen
locations, including Port-
land International Airport, a
Portland Trail Blazers game,
an Amazon Locker location
and stores such as Costco
and Ikea.
Twenty-six of the con-
firmed patients had not been
vaccinated against mea-
sles and the vaccination
status of four others who
were infected is unknown.
One person has been hos-
pitalized. Authorities say
nine additional cases are
suspected.
Most of the cases
involved children younger
than 10, the Clark County
Public Health Department
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Seattle
said in a statement. One
adult is infected and the rest
are teenagers.
Washington Gov. Jay
Inslee, a Democrat, declared
a statewide public health
emergency for his state on
Friday and authorities in
neighboring Oregon and
Idaho have issued warnings
to residents.
Inslee said the number of
cases “creates an extreme
public health risk that may
quickly spread to other
counties.”
Clark County, which
includes the Portland bed-
room community of Van-
couver, Washington, has
a measles vaccination rate
of 78 percent, well below
the 92 to 94 percent rate
required for so-called “herd
immunity,” said Marissa
Armstrong, the depart-
ment’s spokeswoman.
Herd immunity happens
when unvaccinated indi-
viduals are protected from
infection because almost
everyone around them has
been vaccinated and is
immune to a disease.
The measles vaccination
rate for 2-year-olds in Mult-
nomah County, home to
Portland, was 87 percent in
2017, according to state data.
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
PORTLAND (AP) — The
Oregon Environmental Qual-
ity Commission has approved
new smoke rules for the state
that will allow more planned
burns that reduce wildfire
risk by getting rid of under-
brush and dead trees.
Oregon Public Broad-
casting reports that the rules
approved Thursday are a
tradeoff between having
some smoke drift into com-
munities during the winter
months and the potential for
devastating wildfires in the
summer.
On the color-based system
used for air quality alerts, the
cutoff would now be within
the yellow or “moderate”
category.
The rules also designate
limits for the 24-hour aver-
age of smoke in communi-
ties. The new rules apply to
public and private landown-
ers and burning on industrial
timberlands.
“This change will allow
relatively low levels of smoke
from prescribed burning
to occur more frequently
in communities. And that’s
a tradeoff for reducing the
potential for much worse
smoke incidence from wild-
fire in the summer season,”
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Measles outbreak
traced to PDX, Blazers
game and retail stores
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