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STORM KING MOUNTAIN: 20 YEARS LATER
hit a118-year high this week. So how does the Dowwork? A3
FRIDAY: THE TRAGEDYITQDAY: THE sURYIYQRs IsUNDAY: THE LEGACY
Gay conversiontherapy
— According to a majority of psychologists, it doesn't work. But the TexasGOPhas put it back in the spotlight.A6
Soccer in AmericaPlenty of growth, but not yet at NFL level. Will that change?C1
A crew devastatedWhen 9Prinevile Hotshots werekiled in the South CanyonFire in Colorado, theremaining 11copedwith the pain,went back towork or movedon
Sharing U.S. intel in Iraq: Who might be listening? By Nancy A. Youssef McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The United States finds itself
confronting a delicate issue as it opens two joint operations centers in Iraq to help that nation's forces battle
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Sunni Muslim extremists
Plus: World Cup — Brazil,
who've seized much of the
thehome country,andGermany advance to thesemifinals. C4
countryside: How much information can U.S. military advisers
give their Iraqi counterparts without having
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a major financier of conservative causes that fueled Bill Clinton's impeachment.B5
sensitive data end up in
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the hands of two countries
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States often won t step rs at odds down Iran and but will run Russia?
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f or a third term, A4
Li ke t h e U.S. , which
has authorized at least 300 troops to
EDITOR'SCHOICE
advise Iraqi government forces, Iran and — to a
Forget red and blue: We actually agree, a lot By Dan Balz The Washington Post
Forget what you've heard about an America divided into warring camps, living in red and blue states or congressional districts. We actually
agree on lots of things. That is the conclusion of a study conducted by the Program for Public Consultation, whose goal is to give the public a louder voice in the policymaking process. The group analyzed answers to more
lesser extent — Russia have Courtesy Bowman Museum
The Prineville Hotshots visited Crater Lake National Park on a day off from firefighting on July 4, 1994 — just two days before nine of them would be among 14 firefighters to perish in the South Canyon Fire in Colorado.
By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin
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fter losing nine friends and co-workers to a wildfire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain
some ofthe best ofthe best— the crews are the elite of the wildland firefighting world.
planes to Iraq, while Iran
has provided equipment and perhaps 100 military
national forests, the Crooked River ¹ tional Grassland, and Prineville District of the Bureau of Land Management. "It's the middle of July, fire season. So I came
states with those who live in blue districts or states.
the one who decided right away to stop fighting fires. She was I of 5 women on the crew and the only one who survived, leavingher wondering why she made
districts or states truly dis-
See Polarized /A4
the besieged Iraqi troops. See Intel /A4
In California, shaming the water waster LOS ANGELES — For
Robertson said. Over time many of them
all the doomsdayproclamations about the historic
went on to different jobs.
Kim (Valentine) Lightley, 43, another
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of the Prineville Hotshots in 1994, was
drought that has this state
in a chokehold, here is what California has done to save
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water: not much. In five months since the
drought emergency was declared, Californians
have cut their water consumption only 5 percent compared with usage in recent years, according to state officials — a far cry
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from the20 percent Gov.
decision (to leave firefighting)," she told a room full of fire officials and firefighters Ryan Brennecke 1 The Bulletin in Mneville this spring. Alex Robertson is one of 11 surviving members of the Prineville Hotshots who were at
"We were surprised," said Steven Kull, PPC director.
been called to supplement
hotshots returned to being firefighters,
traumatic experiences. "I've had 20 years to think about that
agreed with each other just 4percent of the time.
be deployed with the Shiite Muslim militias who have
By lanLovett
try to give talks to firefighters and their families about coping with the stress of
states and those in blue
advisers who are thought to
New York Times News Service
it through the fire and they didn't. She now lives in Powell Butte and works as a research chemist but travels the coun-
People in red districts or
advance by the extremist group Islamic State. Russia provided a dozen jet fighters and what it calls "technical advisers" on the
Shocked by the loss of nearly half the
quarterly newsletter for firefighters put officials at the Ochoco National Forest out by the federal Wildland Fire Lessons initially decided to have the entire firechoice — return to work or quit fighting Learned Center, she explained why she fighting force take a break immediately fires. decided not to return to the hotshot crew. following the South Canyon Fire. "I was in a lot of grief at that time. It "The whole forest was grieving, simulTheir bosses said they would give them all the time they needed to make was terribly painful. To have something taneous," Kevin Donham, a former fire the choice. Alex Robertson, who ran a like this happenprettymuch stabbed me management officer with the Ochoco chainsaw inthe crew, chose to return in the heart. So I decided not to return National Forest said. to the fire line that same summer, as did that summer," she said. Fire crews fromthe Deschutes Nationthe majority of his fellow hotshots. The blowup of the South Canyon Fire al Forest, Oregon Department of Forest"I didn't have anything else to do," on Storm King Mountain in Colorado on ry and the Jefferson County Fire Departsaid Robertson, 43, now deputy fire staff July 6, 1994, killed 14 firefighters — nine ment all offered to respond to fires on officer for Central Oregon Fire Manage- Prineville Hotshots and five other fire- the Ochoco during the "stand-down," as ment Services, which coordinates fire- fighters. Firefighters earn the title hot- Donham called it. fighting on the Deschutes and Ochoco shot when they've proved themselves as SeeStorm King/A5
back." Initially all but one of the 11 surviving
ri al-Maliki counter the
20-person Prineville Hotshots crew, fire
in summer 1994, the remaining 11 Prineville Hotshots faced a d i f ficult
than 300 survey questions taken over the past few years and dealing with public-policy choices, and it compared responses from people who live in red congressional districts or The analysis found overwhelmingconvergence in attitudes, regardless of the makeup of the state or district where people live.
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"boots on the ground" to help Prime Minister Nou-
In an article for Two More Chains, a
Jerry Brown called for in January. So, faced with apparent
indifference to stern warn-
the South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado.
ings from state leaders and media alarms, cities across The Bulletin
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California have encouraged residents to tattle on
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