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BY SAVANNAH EADENS
The Oregonian
Police are still figuring
out what exactly happened
Wednesday on fog-shrouded
Interstate 5 that caused doz-
ens of cars and trucks to crash,
killing two drivers in separate
incidents 8 miles apart and
closing off sections of the free-
way’s southbound lanes for
much of the day.
Investigators are still “piec-
ing everything together,” said
Capt. Stephanie Bigman, of
the Oregon State Police. The
Oregon Department of Trans-
portation called the pileup of
some 60 vehicles, including
20 semitrucks, “an extremely
challenging situation.”
Oregon State Police offered
few details and provided no
information on the first fatal-
ity, which happened at about
8 a.m. 14 miles north of Eu-
gene.
Many drivers were going
too fast, considering the foggy
conditions, Bigman said. Driv-
ers were temporarily rerouted
to the northbound lanes.
Traffic that had backed up
behind the morning’s ini-
tial crash was beginning to
clear, and cars were passing
through the scene when an
unknown obstruction, possi-
bly a tire in the road, created
a minor fender-bender-like
collision outside Halsey, Big-
man said.
OSP via AP
Two people died in two separate multivehicle crashes on Interstate 5 north of Eugene on Wednesday. Oregon State Police said the crashes in
the southbound lanes of the interstate involved about 60 vehicles including up to 20 semitrucks.
This led a Freightliner
semitruck to pull to the right
and stop in the slow lane.
Another Freightliner truck
crashed into it and caught on
fire. The driver of the second
freightliner, identified as Kir-
pal Singh, 63, of Yuba City,
California, was killed, Oregon
State Police said.
Two sedans rear-ended be-
hind the semitruck crash, but
the drivers were not injured.
The crashes each spanned
more than a mile and closed
the southbound lanes 16 miles
north of the Beltline Highway
intersection. Six of the in-
volved semis were leaking flu-
ids, police said.
ODOT said southbound I-5
south of Albany at state High-
way 34 didn’t reopen until
about 2:30 a.m.
LOCAL BRIEFING
Bend man killed in crash
on Bend Parkway
A three-vehicle crash
Wednesday night on the Bend
Parkway killed a 37-year-old
Bend resident.
After getting calls about a
crash involving multiple vehi-
cles, the Bend Police Depart-
ment and Oregon State Police
responded around 9:30 p.m.
They found Cody Dupont,
37, of Bend was driving a 1995
Honda Civic around 75 mph
south on the parkway when he
struck another vehicle traveling
south operated by a 17-year-old
Bend resident, Bend Police said
in a news release on Thursday.
Dupont lost control of his ve-
hicle, crossed the median into
the northbound lanes of the
parkway near Reed Lane, and
crashed into another vehicle
driven by Gregory Canfield, 56,
of Bend, police said.
Dupont was killed in the
crash, and Canfield, who suf-
fered minor injuries, was found
to be impaired and was arrested
on suspicion of being under the
influence of a controlled sub-
stance. Canfield was taken to
the Deschutes County jail. The
17-year-old driver was unin-
jured.
Fire damages two homes
A fire damaged two homes in
the 5500 block of Harvest Ave-
nue early Thursday morning.
There were no reported in-
juries.
According to Redmond
Fire & Rescue, crews were dis-
patched about 4:30 a.m. to the
blaze. When they arrived, fire-
fighters found two structures
on fire and flames spreading
through nearby brush and ju-
nipers.
Crews were able to stop the
fire spreading through the
brush and trees and contain the
fire to the two homes, accord-
ing to the fire department.
As of 9:30 a.m. Thursday
morning, crews remained on
scene extinguishing hot spots.
Redmond Fire & Rescue
Redmond firefighters respond early Thursday morning to a fire
that severely damaged two homes in the 5500 block of Harvest
Avenue in Redmond.
— Bulletin staff reports
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Amanda Cowan/The Columbian via AP
Thick smoke from the Nakia Creek Fire clogs the air, as seen from the
Camas Creek Watershed near Camas, Washington, on Wednesday. A
haze of smoke from several wildfires covering parts of Oregon and
western Washington is expected to clear before the week’s end, but
only after the region achieved a dubious distinction: Portland and Se-
attle and briefly topped a list of large cities with the worst air quality
in the world.
Thick smoke in western
Washington and
Oregon to soon clear
Associated Press
A haze of smoke covering
parts of Oregon and western
Washington is expected to
clear before the week’s end, but
only after the region reached a
dubious distinction: Portland
and Seattle briefly topped a list
of large cities with the worst
air quality in the world.
The smoke comes from sev-
eral wildfires burning in Ore-
gon and Washington, and sev-
eral days without rain allowed
it to linger and thicken. A new
weather pattern was expected
to hit the region Friday, ac-
cording to a National Weather
Service forecast, bringing
multiple rounds of rain that
will help scrub the air of pol-
lutants.
On Thursday morning, Se-
attle was listed as the worst
city in the world for air quality
and pollution and Portland
ranked third, according to
IQAir, a company that gathers
air quality information from
around the world.
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