The BulleTin • Friday, July 30, 2021 A3
TODAY
It’s Friday, July 30, the 211th day
of 2021. There are 154 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1965, President Lyndon B.
Johnson signed a measure
creating Medicare, which began
operating the following year.
In 1619, the first representative
assembly in America convened
in Jamestown in the Virginia
Colony.
In 1864, during the Civil War,
Union forces tried to take Pe-
tersburg, Virginia, by exploding
a gunpowder-laden mine shaft
beneath Confederate defense
lines; the attack failed.
In 1908, the first round-the-
world automobile race, which
had begun in New York in Feb-
ruary, ended in Paris with the
drivers of the American car, a
Thomas Flyer, declared the win-
ners over teams from Germany
and Italy.
In 1916, German saboteurs blew
up a munitions plant on Black
Tom, an island near Jersey City,
New Jersey, killing about a doz-
en people.
In 1945, the Portland class heavy
cruiser USS Indianapolis, having
just delivered components of
the atomic bomb to Tinian in the
Mariana Islands, was torpedoed
by a Japanese submarine; only
317 out of nearly 1,200 men
survived.
In 1975, former Teamsters union
president Jimmy Hoffa disap-
peared in suburban Detroit;
although presumed dead, his
remains have never been found.
In 2010, the Afghan Taliban
confirmed the death of long-
time leader Mullah Mohammad
Omar and appointed his succes-
sor, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.
Ten years ago: NATO jets
bombed three Libyan state TV
satellite transmitters in Tripoli,
targeting a propaganda tool
in Moammar Gadhafi’s fight
against rebels.
Five years ago: Sixteen peo-
ple died when a hot air balloon
caught fire and exploded after
hitting high-tension power lines
before crashing into a pasture
near Lockhart, Texas, about 60
miles northeast of San Antonio.
One year ago: John Lewis was
eulogized in Atlanta by three
former presidents and others
who urged Americans to con-
tinue the work of the civil rights
icon in fighting injustice during a
moment of racial reckoning.
Today’s Birthdays: Former
Major League Baseball Com-
missioner Bud Selig is 87. Blues
musician Buddy Guy is 85. Movie
director Peter Bogdanovich is
82. Feminist activist Eleanor
Smeal is 82. Singer Paul Anka is
80. Former California Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger is 74. Actor Frank
Stallone is 71. Actor Delta Burke is
65. Law professor Anita Hill is 65.
Singer-songwriter Kate Bush is 63.
Country singer Neal McCoy is 63.
Actor Richard Burgi is 63. Movie
director Richard Linklater is 61. Ac-
tor Laurence Fishburne is 60. Actor
Lisa Kudrow is 58. Actor Vivica A.
Fox is 57. Movie director Christo-
pher Nolan is 51. Actor Tom Green
is 50. Actor Christine Taylor is 50.
Actor Hilary Swank is 47. Olym-
pic gold medal beach volleyball
player Misty May-Treanor is 44.
Actor Jaime Pressly is 44. Former
soccer player Hope Solo is 40. Ac-
tor Yvonne Strahovski is 39. Actor
Martin Starr is 39. Actor Gina Ro-
driguez is 37. Actor Nico Tortorella
is 33. Actor Joey King is 22.
— Associated Press
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
BOOTLEG FIRE | FIREFIGHTING PRACTICES
Brown: Oregon must modernize
Governor’s remarks
occur during tour
of the Bootleg Fire
BY JOE SIESS
(Klamath Falls) Herald and News
Gov. Kate Brown visited
the nation’s largest wildfire on
Wednesday, flying past 413,000
acres of burned forest in a heli-
copter, then speaking with fire
officials in Bly.
After seeing the devastation,
Brown said the state has to re-
think how it fights wildfires in
an era of hotter, larger blazes
— and mitigate dangers before
they spark.
“There is absolutely no ques-
tion that we need to modern-
ize our firefighting practices,”
she said.
Brown acknowledged the
difficulty that Klamath County
communities, and the broader
region, are facing in a sum-
mer compounded by COVID,
drought and now wildfire.
“My heart goes out to the
people of the Klamath Basin,”
the governor said. “This is a
really challenging summer.
We know this is going to be
an incredibly challenging fire
season, and obviously we’ve
got the challenges around
drought.”
Brown said the state is com-
mitted to assisting displaced
families as quickly as possible,
and said federal assistance is on
the way.
“This is an all hands on deck
moment,” she said, promising
to call Rep. DeFazio, D-Spring-
field, chairman of the House
Committee on Transporta-
tion and Infrastructure, who
Arden Barnes/Herald and News
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown elbow bumps Steven Herrera, a member of an Adventure Medic Rapid Extrication Module, on Wednesday at the Bootleg
Fire camp near Bly. The organization helped locate a lost firefighter last week.
Bootleg Fire statistics
Acres burned: 413,545
Containment: 53%
Damage: 161 residences, 247 outbuildings and 342 vehicles.
All as of Thursday afternoon.
Source: InciWeb
is leading alongside Sen. Jeff
Merkley, D-Ore., a delegation
pushing for Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency
readiness.
Brown said there are other
ways for the state to prove its
readiness.
“We must do more of the
preventative mitigation work
(such as) the thinning and the
prescriptive burning,” she said
from fire camp in Bly. “The
goal is to eliminate biomass fuel
off the forest floors so that you
either prevent fires or if there
are fires, it is not as damaging.”
Brown said stopping wild-
fires before they start is smarter
policy, but crews also need the
manpower and funds neces-
sary to fight them when they
get out of hand. Brown said
megafires are threatening Or-
egon communities, damaging
to the environment, dangerous
for firefighters and expensive
for taxpayers.
“The challenge is these fires
are substantially hotter. They
are faster; they are simply
much more ferocious than in
decades past,” she said. “So we
have to make sure that we have
both the people power and the
equipment to tackle them.”
PORTLAND
City bans homeless camps in forest areas amid fires
The Oregonian
PORTLAND — Portland has banned
homeless people from camping in forested
parks to protect them from potential wild-
fires and prevent them from accidentally
starting blazes during a summer of drought
and record-breaking heat.
The City Council adopted the rule
Wednesday for “high-risk hazard zones,”
including in and around Portland’s famous
Forest Park and in heavily forested wetlands
and natural areas around the city. The ban
will apply during wildfire season or when-
ever a county burn ban is in effect. The
8-square-mile Forest Park in the heart of
Portland is one of the largest urban forests in
the U.S.
There have been frequent reports of fires
at unsanctioned campsites and at clusters of
RVs around the city from illegal burning,
The Oregonian reported.
The city stressed that the rule was to pre-
vent fires from starting in the city but also to
protect homeless people from blazes started
near encampments by others.
Nonprofit groups working with the city
will visit the camps, provide information
about fire risk and help residents relocate
voluntarily before any aggressive sweeps take
place, the newspaper said.
“I do not like sweeps, and I do not like that
we have a shortage of housing that people
can afford to live in,” Commissioner Jo Ann
Hardesty said. “But I cannot stand by and do
nothing as people are at risk of dying by fire.”
Detailed maps of high-risk areas prepared
by the city’s fire marshal will help campers
know where they can’t live, said Kaia Sand,
director of Street Roots, an advocacy group
for people experiencing homelessness and a
weekly alternative newspaper. But she said
the solution is “half baked” unless the city
also provides safe places for displaced resi-
dents to go.
“The fact that our city removes people
without good alternatives for them to live has
always been a problem and continues to be a
problem,” she said.
Paula Bronstein/AP file
Frank, a homeless man, sits in his tent with a river view June 5 in Portland,
which has banned homeless people from camping in forested parks.
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