The BulleTin • Tuesday, June 1, 2021 A3
TODAY
Today is Tuesday, June 1, the
152nd day of 2021. There are
213 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On June 1, 2009, General Mo-
tors filed for Chapter 11, becom-
ing the largest U.S. industrial
company to enter bankruptcy
protection.
In 1916, Louis Brandeis took his
seat as an associate justice of
the U.S. Supreme Court, the first
Jewish American to serve on the
nation’s highest bench.
In 1980, Cable News Network
made its debut.
In 2009, Air France Flight 447,
an Airbus A330 carrying 228
people from Rio de Janeiro to
Paris, crashed into the Atlantic
Ocean with the loss of everyone
on board.
In 2015, Vanity Fair released
its cover photo featuring the
former Bruce Jenner with the
headline, “Call Me Caitlyn” as the
Olympic gold medalist publicly
completed a gender transition.
In 2017, President Donald Trump
declared he would pull the U.S.
from the landmark Paris climate
agreement.
Ten years ago: Space shuttle
Endeavour and its six astronauts
returned to Earth, closing out the
next-to-last mission in NASA’s
30-year program.
Five years ago: Ken Starr
resigned as Baylor University’s
chancellor, a week after the
former prosecutor who’d led
the investigation of the Bill Clin-
ton-Monica Lewinsky scandal
was removed as the school’s
president over its handling
of sexual assault complaints
against football players.
One year ago: A Minneapolis
medical examiner classified
George Floyd’s death as a homi-
cide, saying his heart stopped
as police restrained him and
compressed his neck.
Today’s Birthdays: Singer Pat
Boone is 87. Actor Morgan Free-
man is 84. Opera singer Frederica
von Stade is 76. Actor Brian Cox
is 75. Country singer Ronnie
Dunn is 68. Singer-musician
Alan Wilder is 62. Rock musician
Simon Gallup (The Cure) is 61.
Basketball player-turned-coach
Tony Bennett is 52. Model-actor
Heidi Klum is 48. Singer Alanis
Morissette is 47. Americana sing-
er-songwriter Brandi Carlile is 40.
Actor-writer Amy Schumer is 40.
— Associated Press
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
It’s hot, but the water’s not
J
ust because it’s hot out-
side doesn’t mean water
temperatures are warm-
ing up, too. If you’re look-
ing to cool down at a lake or
river, you should take a pause
before diving in.
Water in the Portland area
remains chilly. Very chilly,
in fact.
That poses a danger for
anybody looking to get away
from the heat by diving head-
first into the water. Early-sea-
son swimming is dangerous
because of colder water tem-
peratures and river currents
quickened by snowmelt.
The temperature in the
Clackamas River near Or-
egon City, for example, has
been in the mid-50s for the
past week.
6 rescued Saturday
on North Santiam River
On Saturday, Albany fire-
fighters responded to the
North Santiam River in Jef-
ferson after six people who
snagged on hazardous trees
and strainers while floating
downriver. A strainer is an ob-
struction in a river where lim-
ited water can flow through
and can cause debris or peo-
ple to become pinned. The
water levels were shallow in
portions of the river, but the
currents were swift.
Firefighters used two wa-
tercraft and also deployed a
rescue swimmer. All six in-
dividuals were rescued and
transported to shore for eval-
uation by the Jefferson Fire
Department.
Authorities say the San-
tiam and Willamette rivers are
treacherous right now. Logs,
brush, cold temperatures, and
fluctuating river levels create
unsafe conditions.
The National Weather Ser-
Teen hospitalized
after being severely
burned imitating
TikTok video
BY ARON YOHANNES
The Oregonian
Tillamook County Sheriff’s Department
More than a dozen people became stranded when two boats be-
came stuck in the mud on Tillamook Bay about 10 p.m. Saturday.
vice in Portland is advising
people to be cautious when
heading for a dip. Mult-
nomah County authorities
recommend that people wear
life jackets when getting in
the water and refrain from
drinking alcohol or smoking
marijuana. Alcohol can cause
a decrease in body tempera-
ture that can lead to an in-
creased risk of hypothermia,
according to officials.
The National Center for
Cold Water Safety advises
swimmers to treat any water
temperature below 70 de-
grees with caution.
13 stranded when boats
get stuck in mud on coast
More than a dozen people
were stranded and many were
rescued after two boats be-
came stuck in mud on the Or-
egon Coast over the weekend.
The Tillamook County
Sheriff’s Office and Tilla-
mook Fire Department re-
sponded to a report of boats
stranded on mud in Tilla-
mook Bay at about 10 p.m.
Saturday, KPTV reported.
Thirteen were involved, and
some were attempting to
swim back to shore.
The sheriff’s office said
crews reached the boats and
got the four “younger and
coldest victims” onboard.
They were taken to medical
personnel at a nearby boat
ramp. Four other people were
brought back across the shore
by a second rescue boat. The
remaining five people suc-
cessfully swam across before
first responders arrived.
Three people were taken to
Adventist Health Tillamook
Hospital for treatment for hy-
pothermia.
On Sunday morning, dep-
uties attempted to bring boat
owners to their vessels, but
the water was too low. The
sheriff’s office planned to try
again later in the day.
The sheriff’s office said the
tidal exchange in Tillamook
County bays and estuaries
can be dramatic and boats
regularly get stranded on
mud and sand bars.
— Bulletin wire reports
A 13-year-old Portland
girl has been hospitalized
for more than two weeks
after suffering third-degree
burns while attempting to
imitate a video she saw on
the popular social media
platform TikTok, her fam-
ily said.
Destini Crane severely
burned her neck and right
arm during the May 13 in-
cident and had to undergo
three skin-grafting surger-
ies, her family said. She re-
mains hospitalized in an in-
tensive care unit.
The family told ABC
News they are speaking out
about the accident to help
prevent it from happening
to someone else. Destini’s
sister, Andrea Crane, did
not immediately respond to
a request for comment from
The Oregonian.
Andrea told ABC News
the incident happened in
the bathroom of the family’s
home. While Destini is un-
able to speak to tell her fam-
ily what happened, her sister
said they believe the teen was
attempting to copy a Tik-
Tok challenge where some-
one uses flammable liquid
to draw a shape on a mirror
and then lights it on fire.
Andrea told ABC News
that Destini went into the
bathroom with a candle,
lighter and bottle of rubbing
alcohol, which they believe
exploded and set her and
other items on fire. Destini’s
phone was still recording
a TikTok video when they
retrieved it, her mother,
Kimberly Crane, told ABC
News.
Andrea told ABC News
it will likely take several
months for her sister to re-
cover and regain use of her
arm and mobility in her
neck, shoulders and fingers.
The family believes Des-
tini knows she is in the hos-
pital but doesn’t fully com-
prehend what happened.
She is able to open her eyes,
but can’t drink or speak, the
family said.
The family started a Go-
FundMe fundraiser with
a goal of raising $5,000 to
help aid Destini in her re-
covery. More than $4,600
had been donated as of
Monday afternoon.
In an update on the Go-
FundMe page Saturday,
Andrea said Destini under-
went a third successful skin
graft surgery this week.
“Hopefully by the end
of this weekend she will be
transferred into the burn
unit and we will be able to
get a bigger picture of costs
for physical therapy and
what the quality of her life
the next few months is go-
ing to be,” Andrea wrote.
“Thank you all for your
kind words, thoughts,
prayers and donations,” she
added. “We are completely
blown away and blessed by
the response of the commu-
nity and could not be more
grateful.”