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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Garage, bedroom totaled in house fire
Hillside fire
visible from
downtown John
Day
EO Media Group
By Richard Hanners
Blue Mountain Eagle
A Sunday night fire de-
stroyed a garage and an ad-
joining wing of a house on
Skyline Drive in John Day.
Numerous vehicles and
power tools inside the garage
were also destroyed, but the
occupants, including a dog
and a bird, escaped unharmed.
John Day Dispatch re-
ceived a call at 8 p.m. John
Day and Canyon City fire re-
sponded along with John Day
police and the sheriff’s office.
The garage was fully en-
gulfed when firefighters ar-
rived, Canyon City Fire Chief
Matt Turner said. Flames
from the hillside home were
visible to residents on the flats
below in John Day.
A car, two three-wheeler
motorcycles, a dirt bike and
a motorcycle were burned
up in the fire, which totally
consumed the garage, leaving
only charred and melted metal
frames. Firefighters pulled the
car out of the garage in order
to control the fire.
The fire moved from the
garage into the attic area of
the house above a bedroom
and bathroom. Firefighters
OSU College
of Ag to honor
range scientist
The Eagle/ Richard Hanners
A garage and wing of a house on Skyline Drive in John Day were destroyed by a fire of unknown origin Nov. 4.
went through the house open-
ing up ceilings to ensure the
attic fire was out. Turner said
the fire was contained before
midnight, and his department
left the scene.
John Day Assistant Fire
Chief Don Gabbard said the
two fire departments worked
well together and put out the
fire in a timely fashion, hold-
ing it to just the garage and
master bedroom. His crew left
the scene about 1 a.m.
Dale and Shelly Mosier,
who lived in the house, lost
much of their clothing in the
bedroom fire. They moved
temporarily into a motor
home.
The cause of the fire is
under investigation. The
Mosiers have insurance. Dale
Mosier thanked the firefight-
ers for their hard work.
The Oregon State
University College of
Agricultural
Sciences
presented range scien-
tist Dustin Johnson with
its Award for Excellence
in Extension Education
Nov. 6.
Johnson is based at the
Eastern Oregon Agricul-
tural Research and Exten-
sion Center in Burns. His
expertise is in rangeland
ecology and management,
rangeland monitoring and
invasive plant ecology
and management, accord-
ing to an OSU Extension
news release.
His
primary
ap-
plied research program
centers on improving
the efficiency and sus-
tainability of ranchers
industry
in
Eastern
Oregon.
His efforts include
training and assisting
ranchers as well as pub-
lic land management
agency partners in devel-
oping and maintaining
cooperative
rangeland
and grazing monitoring
programs, engaging with
diverse stakeholders to
develop collaborative ap-
proaches to addressing
complex natural resource
and wildlife management
issues and developing
science-based tools and
strategies for functional
restoration of rangelands
and wetlands degraded by
invasive plants, OSU Ex-
tension said.
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