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PUBLIC SAFETY LOG
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8:59 a.m., Broadway and
Roosevelt: A subject reported
selling fi rewood is unable to
be located by police.
9:45 a.m., 800 block Avenue
S: A person attempting to
dump a couch at the recycling
center is apprised that’s not
ok.
10:03 a.m., 400 block S. Prom:
Caller reports fi nding a purse
in their backyard and believes
it might be stolen.
12:45 p.m., 1100 block S.
Wahanna: An eight-year-old
child reported lost is reunited
with a parent.
3:06 p.m., Police headquar-
ters: A person came in to
register as a sex off ender.
May 12
7:29 a.m., 1000 block S. King:
A female reported talking gib-
berish is advised she’s making
other people uncomfortable.
She is encouraged to move
along.
May 13
3:43 a.m., 1200 block Beach
Drive: A missing person is
reported.
8:37 a.m., 800 block Avenue
G: A woman reported sleeping
in the doorway of a business
is advised management wants
her trespassed.
8:48 a.m., 2300 block S.
Roosevelt: A stray white Husky
dog attached to no human is
reported in a motel parking
lot; police transport the dog
to the kennel.
12:52 p.m., Holladay and
Fourth: A reported domestic
disturbance in progress is
intercepted by police offi cers
who locate the subjects.
4:08 p.m., 12th Avenue park-
ing lot: Caller reports a male
subject stalking her. The man
is contacted by police and
advised of the complaint. He
left the area.
5:48 p.m. 400 block Ocean-
way: Caller reports messy
transients are preventing
her from holding an awards
ceremony for high school kids.
The transients agreed to move
their stuff and move along for
the time being.
6:22 p.m., Fourth and Beach:
A huge hole dug in the sand
is surrounded by cones so
nobody falls in. Public works is
advised to fi ll in the hole.
SEASIDE FIRE & RESCUE
PUBLIC SAFETY
LOG
9:05 p.m., 33000 Rippet Lane:
Emergency medical response.
May 13
1:52 a.m., N. Prom: Emergency
medical response.
May 8
6:08 a.m., 400 block S. Roo-
sevelt: Emergency medical
response
OREGON STATE
POLICE
PUBLIC SAFETY LOG
May 9
Single vehicle crash
8:53 p.m., Ocean Way:
Emergency medical re-
sponse.
State police responded to a
single vehicle crash on U.S.
Highway 101 at milepost 17 on
May 7 at 1:09 a.m. The driver, a
36-year-old Westport man, was
not in the vehicle and could
not be located. Gary’s Towing
removed the Toyota from the
scene.
10:56 a.m., 900 block Ave-
nue G: Emergency medical
response.
12:44 p.m., 2500 block Mill
Creek Lane: Emergency
medical response.
4:50 p.m., Bell Buoy: Emer-
gency medical response.
May 12
9:07 a.m., 2300 block S.
Roosevelt: Emergency medi-
cal response.
1:46 p.m., 400 block S.
Broadway: Fire investiga-
tion.
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Clatsop County hopes to improve evacuation routes to better prepare for an earthquake and tsunami.
County renews focus on disaster preparedness
By NICOLE BALES
The Astorian
With a Cascadia Sub-
duction Zone earthquake
and tsunami on the hori-
zon, Clatsop County has
taken steps to protect res-
idents and tourists from
catastrophe.
The county has com-
pleted the Tsunami Way-
finding Project, which
inventoried
evacuation
signs and identified where
additional signs were
needed.
The county is also plan-
ning to relocate its pub-
lic works facility out of
the tsunami inundation
zone — an initiative for-
merly known as the Resil-
iency
Project,
which
had included establish-
ing alternative evacuation
routes around vulnerable
parts of U.S. Highway 101
and U.S. Highway 30.
The alternative routes
were put on the back
burner, however, after
backlash from residents
in Lewis and Clark who
live along a road that the
county identified as an
option.
In 2019, the county
received a transportation
and growth management
grant through the state to
develop a tsunami evacua-
tion facility improvement
plan. The plan will focus
on tying walking and
cycling trails into evacu-
ation routes and identify-
ing gaps.
Parametrix, a consult-
ing group in Portland
leading the project, pre-
sented the plan and solic-
ited feedback from the
public during a virtual
open house last week.
“We’re talking about
a very serious and sub-
stantial event that could
occur tomorrow or 200
years from now,” Ryan
Farncomb, a senior plan-
ner and project manager
at Parametrix, said. “So it
could be difficult to make
the case to folks the need
for improving evacuation
facilities or thinking about
this. And so by tying this
work to recreational facil-
ities — trails which peo-
ple could use every single
day — I think we’re really
setting the county up for
making improvements in
the near term after this
plan is done.”
Gail Henrikson, the
county’s
community
development director, said
the work ties in and can
build off efforts the coun-
ty’s emergency manage-
ment staff has completed,
like the wayfinding proj-
ect and the natural hazards
mitigation plan.
“We’re really focused
on the coastal areas in
unincorporated
Clatsop
County, but are also look-
ing at the interconnections
with the incorporated
areas,” Henrikson said.
The project is look-
ing at Arch Cape, Clat-
sop Plains, Fort Stevens
State Park and the Miles
Crossing and Jeffers Gar-
den area.
“What we did in this ini-
tial exercise, is we looked
at the existing evacuation
system, existing assem-
bly areas — which again
are those places that peo-
ple are supposed to head
to during an emergency
— and then also looked
at a lot of environmen-
tal information, including
things like where are there
streams, rivers and wet-
lands,” Farncomb said.
“And also, where are there
landslides or bridges that
are maybe over land of
concern.
“We looked at all of
this information at once
to be able to understand
what are the risks to exist-
ing evacuation routes,
what are the opportunities
and where are there trails
already on the ground
that could be used for
evacuation.”
Farncomb said there is
substantial landslide risk
in many areas along the
coast, as well as liquefac-
tion risk, especially north
of Gearhart.
“The area of greatest
evacuation needs overall
is that Clatsop Plains area
north of Gearhart all the
way to Fort Stevens State
Park,” he said. “There are
many neighborhoods there
that lack east-west access
to higher ground.”
Farncomb said there
are a lot of north-south
oriented waterways like
lakes, streams and wet-
lands that make it diffi-
cult to create new con-
nections. Meanwhile, a
wide swath of the coast is
expected to be inundated
during a major earthquake
and there are few places to
reach higher ground.
Farncomb said improv-
ing trails in Fort Stevens
State Park is also a prior-
ity because of the heavy
visitor traffic during the
summer.
The project will also
look at building a vertical
structure people can climb
to evade a tsunami.
The county expects
to hold two more public
meetings in the summer
and fall before presenting
the completed project plan
to the Board of Commis-
sioners early next year.
An advisory commit-
tee for the project is made
up of representatives from
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vate and public landown-
ers and nonprofit agen-
cies, including Consejo
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