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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS June 8, 2016 | 75¢
Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
Plan for Practicing for an West End unparalleled disaster road still up in air Commissioners are weighing options BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County commissioners are as yet undecided about the repair of Undi Road as the deadline to finish the work this year is approaching. The 0.8-mile stretch on a remote area of the north bank of the Bogachiel River in West Jefferson County was severely damaged during fall and winter storms and has been reduced to one barely navigable lane, cutting access for five people. Repair estimates range between $1.1 million and $1.6 million. The board is considering two alternatives: continue to work to fix or replace the stretch of road or do nothing more. “We have done as much as we can,” District 2 Commissioner David Sullivan said near the conclusion of a 90-minute workshop meeting Monday. “People need to take responsibility for their decisions [to live in a remote area] and realize that we aren’t going to solve all their problems.” District 3 Commissioner Kathleen Kler sees it as a measure of priorities. “With all of the other projects we haven’t begun, it may be tough to sell a $1 million project that only benefits five people.” TURN
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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 gives area major quake prep BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Jefferson County Public Works Director Monte Reinders, left, explains options for the repair of Undi Road to county commissioners Kathleen Kler and Phil Johnson.
PORT HADLOCK — The first day of the Cascadia Rising disaster simulation was a helpful exercise for Jefferson County first-responders but was not at all realistic. “We call this ‘fairy dust,’ ” said Bob Hamlin, Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management director. “There is no way we would be able to do all this on the first day. It’s just not possible.” During the drill, local and state agencies — as well as many residents— are practicing how to respond to a 9.0-magnitude quake. The exercise taking place through Friday in coastal communities throughout Washington, Oregon and British Columbia simulates a subduction-zone 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. 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. TURN
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Police look for car after fatal hit-and-run PA authorities trying to ID victim 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
Smith said the white male, in his late 40s to early 50s, did not have identification when police found him unconscious and barely on Monday night. “Officers and detectives are breathing, with a faint pulse, after continuing to try to identify the investigating a report of a hitsubject vehicle and the deceased,” and-run at 10:47 p.m. Monday. Interim Police Chief Brian Smith Found near PUD said. “Preliminary information tells They found the man in the us that a Geo Prizm or Toyota 2000 block of West 18th Street Corolla — white — would be a near a Clallam County Public possible suspect vehicle,” Smith Utility District building. added in a later interview. The man stopped breathing NEW 2016 Jeep
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