Th e Bul l eTin • Fr id ay, Jul y 23, 2021 A3
TODAY
It’s Friday, July 23, the 204th day
of 2021. There are 161 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 2003, Massachusetts’ attor-
ney general issued a report say-
ing clergy members and others
in the Boston Archdiocese prob-
ably had sexually abused more
than 1,000 people over a period
of six decades.
In 1829, William Austin Burt
received a patent for his “ty-
pographer,” a forerunner of the
typewriter.
In 1967, five days of deadly
rioting erupted in Detroit as an
early morning police raid on an
unlicensed bar resulted in a con-
frontation with local residents
that escalated into violence that
spread into other parts of the
city; 43 people, mostly Blacks,
were killed.
In 1982, actor Vic Morrow and
two child actors, 7-year-old
Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old
Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were killed
when a helicopter crashed on
top of them during filming of a
Vietnam War scene for “Twilight
Zone: The Movie.” Director John
Landis and four associates were
later acquitted of manslaughter
charges.
In 1983, an Air Canada Boeing
767 ran out of fuel while flying
from Montreal to Edmonton;
the pilots were able to glide
the jetliner to a safe emergency
landing in Gimli, Manitoba. (The
near-disaster occurred because
the fuel had been erroneously
measured in pounds instead of
kilograms at a time when Cana-
da was converting to the metric
system.)
In 1990, President George H.W.
Bush announced his choice
of Judge David Souter of New
Hampshire to succeed the retir-
ing Justice William J. Brennan on
the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1997, the search for Andrew
Cunanan, the suspected killer
of designer Gianni Versace and
others, ended as police found
his body on a houseboat in Mi-
ami Beach, an apparent suicide.
In 1999, space shuttle Columbia
blasted off with the world’s most
powerful X-ray telescope and
Eileen Collins, the first woman to
command a U.S. space flight.
In 2003, a new audiotape
purported to be from toppled
dictator Saddam Hussein called
on Iraqis to resist the U.S. occu-
pation.
In 2006, Tiger Woods became
the first player since Tom Wat-
son in 1982-83 to win consecu-
tive British Open titles.
Ten years ago: Singer Amy
Winehouse, 27, was found dead
in her London home from acci-
dental alcohol poisoning.
Five years ago: A suicide
bomber detonated his explo-
sives-packed clothing among a
large crowd of demonstrators
in the Afghan capital, killing at
least 80 people; the Islamic State
group claimed responsibility.
One year ago: In response
to an ACLU lawsuit, a federal
judge blocked federal agents in
Portland from arresting or using
physical force against journalists
and legal observers at the ongo-
ing protests there.
Today’s Birthdays: Retired Su-
preme Court Justice Anthony
M. Kennedy is 85. Actor Ronny
Cox is 83. Actor Larry Manetti is
78. Rock singer David Essex is
74. Singer-songwriter-politician
John Hall is 73. Actor Woody
Harrelson is 60. Rock musician
Martin Gore (Depeche Mode)
is 60. Actor Eriq Lasalle is 59.
Rock musician Slash is 56. Actor
Juan Pope is 54. Model-actor
Stephanie Seymour is 53. Actor
Charisma Carpenter is 51. R&B
singer Sam Watters is 51. Coun-
try singer Alison Krauss is 50.
R&B singer Dalvin DeGrate is 50.
Actor-comedian Marlon Wayans
is 49. Country singer Shannon
Brown is 48. Actor Kathryn Hahn
is 48. Retired MLB All-Star Nomar
Garciaparra is 48. Former White
House intern Monica Lewinsky is
48. R&B singer Michelle Williams
is 41. Actor Daniel Radcliffe is 32.
— Associated Press
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
BOOTLEG FIRE
Cooler temps, less wind help firefighters
BY NATHAN HOWARD
Associated Press
BLY — Lower winds and
better weather helped crews
using bulldozers and helicop-
ters battling the nation’s largest
wildfire in Klamath and Lake
counties while a Northern Cal-
ifornia wildfire crossed into
Nevada, prompting new evac-
uations as blazes burn across
the West.
The Bootleg Fire had grown
to nearly 400,000 acres, with
38% containment as of Thurs-
day, according to InciWeb.
However, authorities said
higher humidity Wednes-
day and overnight and bet-
ter conditions allowed crews
to improve fire lines. The fire
also was approaching an area
burned by a previous fire on its
active southeastern flank, rais-
ing hopes that lack of fuel could
reduce its spread and the fore-
cast was for favorable firefight-
ing weather again on Thursday.
“Fire crews and support per-
sonnel have made significant
progress in containing this fire
Nathan Howard/AP
Spot fires smolder Wednesday near trees damaged by the Bootleg Fire, near Bly.
in the last few days,” Joe Prum-
mer, incident commander
trainee of Pacific Northwest
Incident Management Team 2,
said in a statement. “However,
we still have a long road ahead
of us to ensure the safety of the
surrounding communities.”
The Bootleg Fire, which was
sparked by lightning, has rav-
aged the sparsely populated ar-
eas of Klamath and Lake coun-
ties and had been expanding
by up to 4 miles a day, pushed
by strong winds and critically
dry weather. The blaze, which
is being fought by more than
2,200 people, is now more than
one-third contained.
At least 2,000 homes were
ordered evacuated at some
point during the fire and an
additional 5,000 were threat-
ened. At least 70 homes and
more than 100 outbuildings
have burned, but no one is
known to have died.
In northeast Oregon, the
Elbow Creek Fire burning 17
miles northwest of Wallowa
had grown to 20,000 acres as
of Thursday, according to Inci-
Web. Containment was at 20%.
Meanwhile the Tamarack
Fire south of Lake Tahoe had
burned more than 43,500 acres
of timber and head-high chap-
arral in national forest land.
It erupted July 4 and was one
of nearly two dozen blazes
sparked by lightning strikes.
More than 1,200 firefight-
ers were battling the Alpine
County blaze, which has de-
stroyed at least 10 buildings,
forced evacuations in several
communities and had closed
parts of U.S. Highway 395 in
Nevada and California. Fire
officials expected active or ex-
treme fire behavior on Thurs-
day, which could see 14 mph
winds and temperatures ap-
proaching 90 degrees Fahren-
heit.
As wildfire smoke spreads throughout the U.S., who’s at risk?
BY MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press
Smoke from wildfires in the
western U.S. and Canada is
blanketing much of the conti-
nent, including thousands of
miles away on the East Coast.
And experts say the phenom-
enon is becoming more com-
mon as human-caused global
warming stokes bigger and
more intense blazes.
Pollution from smoke
reached unhealthy levels this
week in communities from
Washington state to Washing-
ton D.C.
“These fires are going to be
burning all summer,” said Uni-
versity of Washington wildfire
smoke expert Dan Jaffe. “In
terms of bad air quality, every-
where in the country is to go-
ing to be worse than average
this year.”
Growing research points
to potential long-term health
damage from breathing in mi-
croscopic particles of smoke.
Authorities have scrambled to
better protect people from the
harmful effects but face chal-
lenges in communicating risk
to vulnerable communities.
Is it getting worse?
The number of unhealthy air
quality days recorded in 2021
by pollution monitors nation-
The Staten Island Ferry departs
Tuesday from the Manhattan ter-
minal through a haze of smoke
with the Statue of Liberty barely
visible in New York.
Julie Jacobson/AP
wide is more than double the
number to date in each of the
last two years, according to fig-
ures provided to the Associated
Press by the Environmental
Protection Agency. Wildfires
likely are driving much of the
increase, officials said.
The amount of smoke wild-
fires spew stems directly from
how much land burns — more
than 4,100 square miles in the
U.S. and 4,800 square miles in
Canada so far in 2021. That’s
behind the 10-year average
for this time of year for both
nations, but forecasters warn
conditions could worsen as a
severe drought afflicting 85%
of the West intensifies.
Wildfire smoke contains
hundreds of chemical com-
pounds, and many can be
harmful in large doses. Health
officials use the concentration
of smoke particles in the air to
gauge the severity of danger to
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the public.
Scientists link smoke ex-
posure with long-term health
problems including decreased
lung function, weakened im-
mune systems and higher rates
of flu. In the short term, vul-
nerable people can be hospital-
ized and sometimes die from
excessive smoke, according to
physicians and public health
officials.
How do I protect myself?
Listen for warnings about
smoke and, if advised, avoid
outdoor activities to reduce ex-
posure. Keep doors and win-
dows closed, and run an air
filter to clean inside air. Face
masks can protect against
breathing in smoke. As with
COVID-19, most effective are
N95 masks because they are
designed to block the smallest
particles.