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Friday, February 1, 2019
North Dakota
Gov. Brown says feds must do
sends team to help more to manage fire-prone land
with Northwest
measles breakout
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — The federal
government needs to send
more resources to do more
forest thinning on public
lands in Oregon, Gov. Kate
Brown said Thursday as she
searches for ways to stem
wildfires that are getting big-
ger and more dangerous.
One possible option
Brown said she would con-
sider is allowing some fires
to burn, but keeping them
away from populated areas,
as well as prescribed burns
and increased thinning.
“Fire is an instrumental
part of maintaining a land-
scape, a healthy landscape,”
Brown told reporters in a con-
ference call. But she is being
cautious about the approach,
citing a megafire in 2017 that
wasn’t immediately snuffed
out and that threatened the
town of Brookings on the
southern Oregon coast.
“I still feel the pain of the
Chetco Bar fire,” she said,
referring to the blaze that
scorched 190,000 acres over
several months.
Wildfire experts like
John Bailey, an Oregon
State University professor
of silviculture and fire man-
firmed 43 measles cases
mostly clustered in south-
west Washington. Most
patients were under 10 and
not immunized.
Public health author-
ities recommend that all
children be vaccinated
against the extremely con-
tagious viral illness at ages
12 to 15 months and 4 to 6
years.
Washington
submit-
ted a request for the spe-
cialized team through the
Emergency Management
Assistance Compact. The
mutual aid agency enables
a disaster-impacted state
to request and receive aid
from other member states
swiftly and efficiently.
The Emergency Man-
agement Assistance Com-
pact has been ratified by
the federal government
in all 50 states, including
the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, Guam, and
the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Washington will reim-
burse North Dakota’s
expenses as outlined in the
agency’s request.
BISMARCK,
N.D.
(AP) — North Dakota is
sending an emergency
response team to assist in
efforts to control an esca-
lating measles outbreak in
the Pacific Northwest.
The North Dakota
Department of Health
Emergency Preparedness
and Response will deploy
a five-member unit to
relieve existing members
of the Washington state
response group, the Bis-
marck Tribune reported.
“We are pleased to
assist with this serious
public health emergency,”
said Tim Wiedrich, Emer-
gency Preparedness and
Response’s section chief.
“Our participation not
only assists Washington
but also strengthens our
North Dakota response
capabilities.”
Washington Gov. Jay
Inslee declared a state
of emergency on Jan. 25
because of the measles
outbreak.
Public health officials
in the state have con-
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agement, say fires make
forests more fire-resilient
and healthy. They advocate
using prescribed burns more
aggressively.
As part of her efforts,
Brown announced Wednes-
day an executive order estab-
lishing the Oregon Wildfire
Response Council, tasked
with evaluating the current
response system to large
fires.
“We have to re-examine
how we fight fire,” Brown
said Thursday, noting the
current model has been used
for a century. She said fed-
eral public lands have been
mismanaged for many years.
Since the 1970s, there has
been little timber harvest-
ing on federal lands, with a
resulting increase of 57 per-
cent more standing timber
in the United States than
existed in 1953, according
to a study by Donald Healy,
a forestry expert from Lyn-
nwood, Washington, who
formerly worked for wood
products company Boise
Cascade. He said the situ-
ation has “set the stage for
disastrous forest fires.”
The council Brown estab-
lished is to make recommen-
dations in September on the
future of Oregon’s wildfire
response infrastructure. She
said Democrats and Republi-
cans will be members as well
as Native Americans, and
that it will ramp up quickly.
If its recommendations
require changes in state law,
legislation could be prepared
for the Legislature in time for
its 2020 session, Brown said.
Some
recommendations
could be handled by execu-
tive order, though determin-
ing funding could take a year
or two.
Council chairman Matt
Donegan should also make
sure federal partners are
fully engaged, Brown said.
The U.S. Forest Service
doesn’t currently dedicate
enough resources to properly
thin national forests, Brown
complained in the confer-
ence call. U.S. Forest Ser-
vice land comprises about
14 million acres in Oregon,
or roughly one-quarter of the
state.
Brown and the governors
of California and Washing-
ton state wrote President
Donald Trump on Jan. 8
about the issue.
“The federal government
is a major landowner and a
critical partner in prevent-
ing, fighting, and recovering
from wildfires,” Brown, Cal-
ifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom
and Washington Gov. Jay
Inslee told Trump.
They asked the president
to double the investment for
managing federal forests in
the three states, noting that
the federal forest manage-
ment budgets have remained
flat in recent years.
Senate
Republican
Leader Herman Baertsch-
iger Jr., of Grants Pass, said
he’s encouraged by the gov-
ernor’s actions.
“This is a great first
step, but we need to take a
serious look at how we man-
age our forests, including
creating a long term 100-
year plan to prevent these
massive fires from occurring
in the first place,” Baertsch-
iger said.
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Police: Man executed in Texas
in 1999 killed Oregon woman
PORTLAND (AP) — A
convicted murderer called
the “Animal,” who was exe-
cuted by the state of Texas
in 1999, has been identi-
fied by DNA as the person
who killed a young woman
in Portland nearly 40 years
ago.
Anna Marie Hlavka, 20,
was killed in an apartment
on July 24, 1979. Authori-
ties said Thursday her killer,
Jerry McFadden, was iden-
tified using the same tech-
nology that led to an arrest
last year in California in the
“Golden State Killer” case.
Hlavka was sexually
assaulted and strangled with
an electric cord. The Port-
land Police Bureau said at
a news conference retired
detectives submitted evi-
dence to the state crime lab
in 2009 for forensic testing.
Authorities said that evi-
dence eventually showed
McFaddden, who was exe-
cuted in Texas for the rape
and killing of an 18-year-
old high school cheerleader,
was Hlavka’s killer.
The 51-year-old McFad-
den was a notorious crim-
inal in Texas. He was
sentenced to death for a
daylong murder rampage in
1986 that took the life of the
cheerleader as well as two
other people.
Authorities said it took
years of research and detec-
tive work to determine that
The News-Journal via AP/Kevin Green, File
In this Aug. 31, 1999, file photo, convicted murderer Jerry
“Animal” McFadden, left, looks at his attorney Vernard Sol-
omon, right, while Upshur County Sheriff R.D. “Buck” Cross,
center, follows him out of the Upshur County Courtroom af-
ter his execution date was set in Gilmer, Texas.
McFadden killed Hlavka.
Portland police said an
“unknown male DNA pro-
file” was found in 2011 in
evidence collected from
the scene of the 1979 slay-
ing. The profile was deemed
especially good considering
how much time had passed.
From 2012 to 2016, detec-
tives collected and submit-
ted eight subjects’ DNA pro-
files in an attempt to identify
the killer, but authorities
said all came back negative.
Last May detectives
researched forensic geneal-
ogy using unidentified DNA
profiles from homicides
scenes, the technology used
to bring about the May 2018
arrest of the suspect in the
“Golden State Killer” case.
Detectives
contacted
Parabon NanoLabs and the
Oregon State Police Crime
Lab and it was determined
that the evidence from the
Portland cold case was a
good candidate for that
technology.
Scientists were able to
map three of the four famil-
ial lines of the Portland
killer and identified him as
McFadden.
Detectives traveled to
Texas to interview McFad-
den’s relatives and obtain
further DNA samples.
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