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October 22-23, 2010
9-1-1 outage ‘could have been a total disaster’ PT backup center works perfectly within minutes By Charlie Bermant Peninsula Daily News
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JeffCom dispatcher Derek Allen and Rebecca Duce work at a backup dispatch center in Port Townsend on Thursday after power failed at the main 9-1-1 center.
PORT HADLOCK — A power failure at the JeffCom 9-1-1 center Thursday morning led dispatch personnel to set up an emergency command center at the fire station on Lawrence Street in Port Townsend. “I was impressed by the professionalism displayed by the staff,” said Janet Silvus, director of the radio dispatch center for all emergency services in the county. “They were faced with what
could have been a total disaster and implemented the alternate power sources quickly and professionally.” The outage at the center, which is in Port Hadlock, occurred at 6:40 a.m. when personnel were performing a monthly test of the backup generator.
Power surge When the facility switched back over to regular power, a surge ran through the power supply, which is considered to be uninterruptable, causing the 2½-hour outage. Silvus said that emergency service was restored “within minutes.” The JeffCom center did not
regain full telephone and radio communication and go back into operation until 9:10 a.m. The backup center in the East Jefferson Fire-Rescue fire station was staffed by two dispatchers, Derek Allen and Rebecca Duce, who were on call and close by. After the backup station was up and running, the fire department contacted local media outlets warning of the outage and telling the public it could receive a busy signal when calling 9-1-1 because the backup center had only three lines. East Jefferson Fire-Rescue also posted three alternate emergency lines that were not used, Silvus said. Turn
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When animals attack
Ludlow group seeks role in county action
Survivor recalls 1999 encounter in Olympic Park
By Julie McCormick
For Peninsula Daily News
By Rob Ollikainen Peninsula Daily News
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — When Mike Stoican got word of Saturday’s deadly mountain goat attack on Klahhane Ridge, the 53-year-old Allyn man said he realized how lucky he is to be alive. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News Stoican was near the summit of 5,944A mother mountain goat and her offspring graze at Klahhane Ridge in foot Mount Ellinor — in the southeast Olympic National Park earlier this week. corner of Olympic National Park, near Olympic National Forest — when he was Stoican said he was putting on his ski gored by a large mountain goat in 1999, pants when the mountain goat charged. he said. It knocked him back and opened a His account of the encounter was simi4-inch deep wound in his upper right leg. lar to the one that killed Robert BoardInstinctively, Stoican swung at the man, 63, of Port Angeles, along the buck with an ice ax. He missed but Switchback Trail about 17 miles south of scared away the animal by yelling at it. A MEMORIAL SERVICE for Port Angeles. Bob Boardman, who was killed by “The doctor said I was very lucky,” Bandages, duct tape a mountain goat Saturday, is set said Stoican, who said he was cut in the for Saturday, Oct. 30. thigh by a mountain goat’s horns minHearing the shouts, Stoican said his No time has yet been set for the utes after he left a group of friends on three friends came to his aid and helped service, which will be at the Lower the top of Mount Ellinor. him cover the wound with bandages and Elwha Klallam Tribal Center. “It missed the femoral artery by about duct tape. A website, http://bobboardman. an inch.” They had encountered the same wordpress.com, is devoted to mountain goat shortly before the attack. Boardman, a registered nurse at 300-pound male “We were eating lunch on the top,” Olympic Medical Center who also Stoican said. did medical work with the Lower Boardman, a registered nurse, com“While we were eating lunch, a big Elwha and Makah tribes. munity musician and avid hiker, was male goat came up to us. I’ve never seen Peninsula Daily News gored in the thigh by the horns of a a real aggressive goat like this. nearly 300-pound male mountain goat. “He was licking us and our packs and Fellow hikers said the mountain goat getting in our food and everything. Evenstood over Boardman as he lay bleeding way to a hospital emergency room. tually, he just left. on the ground, staring at the people who Olympic National Forest spokeswoman “Usually, you move and they kind of were trying to help. Donna Nemeth could not be reached for move back. This one was in your face.” Witnesses said Boardman died a hero comment Thursday afternoon. Stoican had to leave the summit because he put himself between the Stoican said Boardman’s death gave before his friends. He said the mountain charging mountain goat and other hikers. him new perspective. goat waited until he was alone. “It made me step back and think Olympic National Park officials have “It was odd because it was similar to about it a little more,” Stoican said no record of Stoican’s encounter. what happened to the guy in Port AngeAlthough it happened inside the park Thursday. les,” Stoican said. “I have kids in high school. I could boundary, Stoican said he reported it to easily not have been around for them.” Turn to Attack/A6 Olympic National Forest rangers on his
Memorial for goat victim set Oct. 30
PORT LUDLOW — A citizens group will appeal a visiting judge’s decision preventing them from weighing-in on an ongoing legal dispute between Jefferson County and the developer of a proposed new quarry near Port Ludlow. Iron Mountain Quarry Co. wants to build a new basalt rock mining operation on 142 acres leased from Pope Resources next to the existing Shine Quarry. The Port Ludlow Village Council filed notice last week that it will ask the state Court of Appeals to reverse Judge Anna Laurie’s decision last month rejecting their attempt to join the dispute between the company and the county as an intervener. Laurie denied the request because it was not timely, she said. She also declined to accept the group’s 1,000 pages of documentation on the case. Meanwhile, Jefferson County is likely to make a decision by the middle of next week as to whether to appeal a part of Laurie’s decision affecting its environmental review of the project, said Yakima attorney Ken Harper, who represents the county in the matter. Laurie ordered the county to give more lengthy consideration to Iron Mountain Quarry Co.’s environmental and other documents.
Adverse impact ruling She found the county spent 2¼ hours on the process, and that was not enough time to issue an adverse impact finding. That finding triggered a requirement for an independent environmental impact statement, or EIS. The company contends the 568 pages of information it submitted is sufficient for the county to approve the project without consuming more time and money on an EIS. Laurie, a Kitsap County Superior Court judge, is hearing matters related to the company’s lawsuit against the county challenging its determination of significance. Turn
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