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STORM KING MOUNTAIN: 20 YEARS LATER
OIL TRAINS
TODAY: THE TRAGEDYI SATURDAY: THE SURVIVORSI SUNDAY: THE LEGACY
Bend saw at least1 volatile load in June
More for the FourthThe melody behind the national anthem has alonger history than the lyrics.A3
Plus: A strayperiodThe meaning of a keypassage in the Declaration of Independence couldhang on anerrant punctuation mark.A3
And in editorials —Read the full Declaration — oneversion, at least.B4
Deadly in minutes14firefighters — including 9 Prinevile Hotshots — could not escapewhen achange in weather turned amodest wildfire into a fast-moving inferno
The Bulletin
The South CanyonFire started July 2 and by the morning of July 6 hadgrown to about 127 acres. Fire lines werebeing constructed, and 49 firefighters were on themountain. At about 4:08 p.m., sparks started a spot fire in the West Drainagearea.
4:-08 p;m.
At around the sametime, a cold front arrived pushing strong winds up theWest Drainage, creating a fire blowup. Thefirefighters all retreated awayfrom the blowup, but the only retreat was uphill and the fire was moving faster than the firefighters could run.
4:13 p:m.
Twelvemembersofthe WestFlankFirelinegroup were unabletooutrunthefireandwerekiled. All buttwo of theMain RidgeFireline Groupwereable to escapedown the East Drainage,whileanother group onthesouthflankwasabletodeployfire sheltersandsurvive.
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2 firefighters separated, overrun andkilled
Another shot at the pros — Maarty Leunen, aformer Redmond High basketball standout, is 28, but he still hasn't given up on the NBA.C1
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Study: Many prefer pain to solitary thoughts
Fire at start
Firefigliters escap~edow'n East Orainage
Firefighters survive in fire shelters
of July 6
Andy Zeigert / The Bulletin
The Washington Post
People, especially men, hate being alone with their thoughts so much that they'd rather be in pain. In a study published in Science on the ability of people to let their minds
"wander" — that is, for
them to sit and do nothing but think — researchers
found that about a quarter of women and two-thirds
of menchose electric shocks over their own company. "We went into this thinking that mind-wandering wouldn't be that
hard," said Timothy W ilson, aprofessorof psychology at the University of Virginia and the lead author of the study. "People usually think of mind-wandering as being a bad thing because it interrupts when you're
trying to pay attention. But we wanted to see what
happens when mind-wandering is the goal." Wilson didn't think his subjects would struggle with the task.
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Correction In a story headlined "Bang, booms, but few cited," which appeared Monday, June30, on Page A1,fireworks violations were incorrectly characterized due to incorrect information supplied to TheBulletin. Fireworks violations are Class B misdemeanors in Oregonand may be subject to civil penalties from the fire marshal. The Bulletin regrets the error.
The Bulletin
State Fire Marshal released Thursday. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train
that rumbled along the
29 and June 4 carried a minimum of 1 million gallons of oil, the equivalent
of approximately 35 tank cars. The reports provide only a partial picture of oil-by-rail traffic, because they do not include other
wenty years ago, an elite group of
reports do not reveal the
firefighters from Prineville went
actual amount of oil, so it is
to Colorado to fight just one of many wildfires burning on the western slope of the Rockies. Four hours after arriving at the scene, nine of those firefighters were dead. The blaze had erupted into a firestorm, killing more than a dozen firefighters in all, staggering communities across Oregon and leading to changes in how wildfires are fought.
unclear how many cars the train pulled.
Railways must provide information on the routes
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of large train shipments of volatile Bakken oil to state
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May.
The South Canyon Fire on Storm
King Mountain in Colorado on July 6, 1994, trapped and killed the Prineville nine, along with three smokejumpers and two members of a helicopter firefighting crew.
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The death toll was the largest in modsimilar blowup killed 19 hotshots on the Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona a little more
than a year ago. H otshot crews typically have 20
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Twenty Prineville Hotshots deploy at the South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain on July 6, 1994.
members. Training, living and working together, the firefighters become a fam-
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who made themselves locally famous in Burns. Bonnie Holtby ran c ross
in Prineville.
WYOMING
South Canyon Fire onStorm King Mountain
Follow this series online at denddulletin.com/stormking
Hotshots. Those killed ranged in age from 21 to 28, hailed from around Oregon andincluded some unique char- country and track and played hoops at acters. Levi Brinkley was the firstborn Redmond High before turning to fireof a rambunctious set of triplet brothers fighting. Jon Kelso was born and raised
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Kathi Beck,24 Hometown: Beaverton A senior at the university of Oregon, Beckwas arockand mountain climber who hoped to one day open an outdoor youth therapy program.
Tamara "Taml"
Levi Brinkley, 22 Bickett, 24 Hometown: Hometown: Burns Lebanon Brinkley was In her sixth an outdoorsyear with the man who Hotshots, loved huntBickett ing, fishing grew upan and skiing as athlete, run- well as skyning cross diving, rock country climbing and playing andbungee volleyball in jumping. high school.
Scott Blecha,27 Hometown: Clatskanie Blecha served four years in the U.S. Marines before graduating cum laude with a degree in mechanical engineering fromthe Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls.
Doug Bmtbar,22
Hometown: McKenzie Bridge Anhonor studentat
McKenzie High, Dunbar was also a baseball playerand saxophonist. He was15 credits short of a business degree from Southern Oregon State College when he died.
Terri Hagen,28 Hometown: Dallas A member of the Onondaga tribe of the Iroquois Nation, Hagenhad served in the Army asa medic and was completing degrees in entomology and history at Oregon State University.
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Bonnie Hsltby, 21 Hometown: Redmond Holtby,a third-generation firefighter, played basketball and
competed in track and cross country at Redmond High.
Robert Johnson,26 Hometown: Roseburg Johnson graduated withhonors from Oregon State university
Jen Kelso,27 Hometown: Prineville Kelso played golfand managedthe football team at Crook County High in1991 with School. He a business had a wildlife administra- science tion degree degree from and passed OSU andwas his Certistudying civil fied Public engineering Accounting at Oregon exam on his Institute of first attempt. Technology in Klamath
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documents the Office of
types of oil and they do not list shipments of less than 1 million gallons. Also, the
By Dylan J. Darling
ern wildland firefighting history until a By Rachel Feltman
Dakota's Bakken region last month, according to
and through Central Oregon toward California
And a Wed exclusive-
EDITOR'SCHOICE
load of oil from North
sometime between May
Source: "Fire Behavior Associated With the 1994 South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain, Colorado," 1998
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through Bend with a large
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Voi. 112, No. 1es, 62 pages, e sections
By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Arizona's largest city has gone four months without measurable rain, and
neighboring New Mexico is in the midst of four years of severe drought. But you'll still see and hear fireworks sparkle and pop during the days around July 4, despite the dangerously high threat of wildfires. While some places in the West ban fireworks
altogether, or greatly limit what you can light when conditions are ripe for fire,
other states are going in the opposite direction. Arizona loosened its restrictions this year and
is allowing residents of the two most populous cities to set off fireworks in the
days around Independence Day. And an effort by the New Mexico governor to impose tougher rules during dry times has repeatedly fallen on deaf ears in the Legislature.
Some lawmakers chalk it up to statehouse politics. SeeFireworks/A5
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