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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS May 24, 2016 | 75¢
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Turnout high in primary voting
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Initial numbers expected today BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
CLALLAM FIRE DISTRICT NO. 5
The remains of a Clallam Bay home smolder following a Sunday blaze on Hoko-Ozette Road.
West End couple escapes early morning house fire Agencies working to provide family with basic needs BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
CLALLAM BAY — A longtime West End couple awoke at dawn Sunday to flames consuming their bedroom. Retired Clallam Bay residents David Levin and Corinne Davis escaped unharmed from what appeared to be an electrical fire after fleeing the blaze and calling 9-1-1 at 5:38 a.m. Sunday, Clal-
lam County Fire District No. 5 Fire Chief Trish Hutson said Monday morning. But the couple’s two-story, cedar shake and shingle home at 16743 HokoOzette Road home was a total loss. It was valued at $6,207, according to the county Assessor’s Office. Hutson said that all Levin and Davis had left from their home was the pajamas they were wearing and their car. “They are in need of everything,” Hutson said. She said the couple, whom she said are in their 60s, were staying at a West End hotel Monday morning as they sorted out their future. “Right now, they are pretty much in shock,” Hutson said.
The fire department is working with the Red Cross, Olympic Community Action Programs and local agencies to obtain assistance for the couple, Hutson said. “We’re just trying to get their basic needs met — medications, that sort of thing.” Levin and Davis had lived in the West End for 30-40 years and did not have fire insurance on the home, she said. “Their kids went to school with my kids,” Hutson said, adding Levin had worked on the docks in Sekiu for several years before retiring. Hutson said the blaze remains under investigation. TURN
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Presidential primary election balloting ends in the state today with Jefferson County generating turnouts among the highest in the state. Ballots mailed to voters in Clallam and Jefferson counties must be postmarked today or deposited by 8 p.m. today in voter drop boxes or returned to county courthouses in both counties. Results will be announced by Auditor’s Offices in both counties shortly after 8 p.m. today and posted online at www.peninsuladailynews.com. As of Monday, 10,301 Jefferson County voters through Saturday had returned or mailed back their ballots, voter registration coordinator Sandi Eldridge said. That’s out of 23,868 mailed for a 43.2 percent return rate that sits at or near the top of return rates for the state’s 39 counties. Jefferson County had the highest return rate in Washington as of Thursday with 9,606 ballots returned, a 40.3 percent return rate, next to tiny Columbia County, with 979 ballots returned out of 2,611 mailed, or 37.5 percent. “We always have very active, very high voter participation,” Jefferson County Elections Supervisor Betty Johnson said Monday. Johnson said Jefferson County is usually near the top for participation, but not No. 1.
Clallam returns Clallam’s return rate for 49,941 ballots mailed was 16,789 through Saturday, a 34.3 percent return rate and the 19th highest turnout among 39 counties as of Thursday. County-by-county totals for ballots received statewide from Friday and Monday were not available late Monday afternoon. TURN
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Greywolf closed Missing truck, man located by bomb threat KOMO NEWS
Schools in many states contacted BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
CARLSBORG — Greywolf Elementary School was evacuated Monday for a bomb threat, one of many schools around the country to be targeted, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office said. Greywolf students were moved under Sequim School District policy to the Clallam County Fire District No. 3 training grounds just north of the school at 171 Carlsborg Road, Chief Criminal
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Deputy Brian King said. A school official received an automated bomb threat phone call at about 12:15 p.m. The call did not identify the school. “It sounded like it was computer-generated or recorded,” King said. State Patrol investigators with four bomb-sniffing dogs found no evidence of a bomb, King said. An all-clear signal was given at about 4:30 p.m. TURN
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POULSBO — The body of a missing state Department of Transportation worker and his truck have been found submerged in deep water below the Hood Canal Bridge, DOT officials said Monday. The discovery was made early Monday or late Sunday in 344 feet of water about 150 feet north of the floating span. The family of the worker has been made aware, and they have asked that his name not be released until positive identification and formal family notification can take place, said acting state Transportation Secretary Roger Millar.
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A boat from East Kitsap Fire-Rescue stands alongside TURN TO SEARCH/A5 the Hood Canal Bridge during search operations.
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