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Date of election to be determined BY PAUL GOTTLIEB THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington Air National Guard soldiers from Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane work to assemble temporary living structures at Joint Base Lewis-McChord on May 24. Emergency responders will conduct drills to test how ready they are to respond to a massive earthquake and tsunami.
Massive quake rehearsal set BY TERRANCE PETTY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORTLAND, Ore. — Imagine a devastating earthquake and tsunami have cut off Pacific Northwest coastal communities. Phone and Internet service have collapsed. Ham radio operators living on the stricken coast fire up their radios, contact emergency managers and report on the magnitude of the disaster so that no time is wasted in saving lives. This is the scenario that will be rehearsed Tuesday through Friday in an earthquake and tsunami drill that has been developed by the U.S. government, the military and state and local emergency managers to test their readiness for what — when it strikes — will likely be the nation’s worst natural calamity. The exercise is called Cascadia Rising. TURN
Peninsula response to be tested BY LEAH LEACH
hospital and ambulance personnel, city and county officials, amateur radio operators, National Guard, This week’s massive Cascadia Coast Guard and others who will be Rising rehearsal for disaster will on the front lines when a disaster involve people all across the North hits the Peninsula will be working Olympic Peninsula. on the four-day drill. The regional drill will be largely a Working with them this week will tabletop exercise for first responders be many people who are ordinary and emergency management officials residents — people who just live in Clallam and Jefferson counties as here and who would be in dire they prepare for possible isolation, straits in the event of a 9.0-magnilack of electrical power and other haz- tude earthquake and resultant tsuards after a major earthquake. nami that could cut off access in and From the southern end of East out of the Peninsula. Jefferson County to south of Forks, firefighters and law enforcement, TURN TO QUAKE/A5 PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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PORT ANGELES — A petition to change Port Angeles city government to second-classcity status has enough valid signatures to bring the question before voters, Clallam County Auditor Shoona Riggs said last week. If voters approve what’s called for in the petition, the city would switch from a code city back to its pre-1971 second-class-city status. The petition says the change would be “in order to elect a full new City Council.” Riggs said Nov. 8 could be set as an election date if she receives a ballot title from city officials by Sept. 12. After that date, there would not be time to meet programming and printing deadlines.
Date uncertain However, the date for the election, instead of this November, could be as late as November 2017, according to Eloise Kailin of Sequim, who is president of Our Water, Our Choice!, which circulated the petition after fighting against fluoridation of Port Angeles city water. She referred to a letter from City Attorney Bill Bloor to Riggs, of which she was sent a copy, in which he cited state law when he said: “An election on this type of petition shall be held at the next general municipal election” which would be in November 2017. “In drafting a ballot title I will consider those statues,” Bloor said in the letter. TURN
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No bomb found in Port Angeles apartment Resident jailed on separate matter into their homes at about 8 p.m. Joshua Scott Curry, 32, was arrested at about 8:06 a.m. Friday by Port Angeles police for investigation of first-degree burglary and unlawful handling of a firearm, said Port Angeles Sgt. Josh Powless. During that incident, Curry had allegedly entered a residence unlawfully and brandished a firearm as part of a suspected domestic violence incident, said Port Angeles Sgt. Jason Viada on Saturday. “If a person knowingly and unlawfully answers or remains in the residence of another with intent to commit a crime therein against a
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PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man whose apartment was searched for a possible bomb Friday remained in the Clallam County jail Saturday on a separate matter with no bond set. No bomb was found in the apartment at 1019 W. 18th St., although investigators found components that possibly could be used in an explosive device, Port Angeles Interim Police Chief Brian Smith said. Neighbors who had been evacuated Friday afternoon during the investigation were allowed back
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person, then he has committed the crime of burglary,” Viada said, citing state law. Additionally, if “you are armed with a deadly weapon while you submit that burglary, then it is first-degree burglary,” he said. The alleged victim told police that in a prior conversation, Curry had said he wanted to go out in a “blaze of glory” in a shootout with police, Viada said. After Curry’s arrest, police obtained a search warrant for his residence and served it at about 12:15 p.m. Friday. “During the course of that, offiKEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS cers found some devices that Keith Nestor of the Washington State Patrol bomb squad appeared to be explosive,” Powless prepares a robotic vehicle to enter an apartment at 1019 said. W. 18th St., in Port Angeles on Friday after police found TURN
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