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Could be tied to PA fatality BY PAUL GOTTLIEB AND ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles police were looking Tuesday for the driver of a white, damaged vehicle that might have been involved in a hit-and-run that killed an unidentified adult male pedestrian in west Port Angeles on Monday night. “Officers and detectives are continuing to try to identify the subject vehicle and the deceased,” Interim Police Chief Brian Smith said.
Possible suspect vehicle “Preliminary information tells us that a Geo Prizm or Toyota Corolla — white — would be a possible suspect vehicle,” Smith added in a later interview.
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Washington National Guard soldiers alight from a pair of Blackhawk helicopters, part of a fleet of four helicopters to land Tuesday at William R. Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles as part of the Cascadia Rising earthquake drill. Below, Jefferson County Public Health Nurse Julia Danskin meets Tuesday with Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management Director Bob Hamlin during the Cascadia Rising exercise.
Cascadia Rising drill gives area major quake prep BY PAUL GOTTLIEB
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Smith said the white male, in his late 40s to early 50s, did not have identification when police found him unconscious and barely breathing, with a faint pulse, after investigating a report of a hit-and-run at 10:47 p.m. Monday. They found the man in the 2000 block of West 18th Street near a Clallam County Public Utility District building. The man stopped breathing and police performed CPR before Port Angeles Fire Department paramedics arrived, Smith said.
PORT ANGELES — Think of traffic backing up for miles on U.S. Highway 101, like it did from Port Angeles toward Sequim on Memorial Day Weekend after two lanes were closed for investigation after an officerinvolved shooting May 28. That’s a bare fraction of the mess motorists would encounter if they try fleeing a 9.0-magnitude earthquake — contrary to what they should do, which is stay put, said Jim Borte, Clallam County public information officer, Tuesday during a kickoff of the Cascadia Rising 2016 exercise. Local and state agencies are responding to the possibility of a massive earthquake this week as part of the exercise taking place through Friday in and coastal communities throughout Washington, Oregon and British Columbia to help emergency responders prepare for catastrophe. In Clallam and Jefferson counties, the drill included the arrival and set-up of a Joint Incident Site Communications Capability units at Carlsborg Road near Sequim, William R. Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles and in Port Hadlock.
Dead at the scene The man was pronounced dead at the scene. “We found a blood trail,” Smith said. “The blood trail led to the injured and subsequently deceased person.” TURN
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Penny Linterman, Joint Information Center manager, and Borte conducted a briefing at 11 a.m. in the Clallam County Courthouse. That was three hours after the scenario had envisioned the earthquake hitting. At that point, emergency operations centers would be open in Sequim, Jefferson County, Clallam Bay and Joyce, according to plans if such a cataclysm were to occur.
The exercise is simulating a subductionzone temblor off the Washington and Oregon coast, where the Juan de Fuca plate collides and wedges under the North American plate. Geologists believe major earthquakes occur along the Cascadia Subduction Zone about once every 500 years, the last of which happened in January 1700. TURN
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State residents finalists for port director Interviews set for June 16 in PA BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Four Washington state residents, including Karen Goschen of Sequim and David Walter of Port Angeles, have been selected as finalists for the Port of Port Angeles’ executive director position vacated Dec. 31 by Ken O’Hollaren.
Port commissioners will interview Goschen, Walter, James Kuntz of Walla Walla and Robert Uptagrafft of Everett during a public meeting from noon to 5 p.m. June 16 at the port administrative building, 338 W. First St., Port Angeles. Questions from the public may be emailed to CandidateQuestions@portofpa.com.
A public reception to meet the candidates is set from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Olympic Board Room of the Red Lion Hotel, 221 N. Lincoln St., Port Angeles. Jones Strategic of Seattle, under a $39,600 contract with the port, selected five finalists — one dropped out — based on rankings made by commissioners during a May 31 executive session, Port Commissioner Steve Burke said Tuesday. Commissioners chose a pool of NEW 2016 Jeep
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about 15 applicants from 41 who applied for the position. The salary could be about $140,000 based on the average of executive director salaries for the ports of Anacortes, Olympia, Kalama, Pasco, Edmonds and Skagit, according to Jones Strategic. O’Hollaren’s annual salary was $145,000. Here are brief descriptions of the executive director candidates: ■ Goschen, the city of Sequim’s former administrative services
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