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all charges against a man charged with murder in the
grand jury proceedings in the case and filed a mo-
death of his landlord be-
tion to dismiss all charges
terviews with investigators that his landlord, Andrew
Hummel said on Monday
cause he felt no crime had been committed.
that he decided to dismiss
Hummel, who halted
against Daniel Norquist, said he found Norquist's self-defense argument valid.
Cordes, 30, became angry and threatened to kill him. SeeSlaying/A4
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Deschutes County District Attorney John
Norquist, 34, said in in-
BEND CITY COUNCIL
Gas tax won' t be
on ballotin November
Norquist
By Tyler Leeds The Bulletin
There will be no gas
EXeCutiVe File —Checking
tax on the November ballot in Bend
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The City Council met to discuss the idea
at a meeting Monday, and while a majority
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discussion evolved
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EDITOR'SCHOICE
Cold in the workplace' ? Here'swhy By Ariann EunjungCha The Washington Post
Like well-tailored gray power suits, matte red lipstick and generous pours of whiskey in between meetings, office climate standards are a throwback to the
The Bulletin file photo
The Awbrey Hall Fire roars past Skyliners Road shortly before sunset Aug. 4, 1990.
• One of the worst wildfires in Bend'shistory destroyed22 homes
1960s "Mad Men" era when males ruled the workplace. Temperatures are set based on formulas that
aimed to optimize em-
By Dylan J. Darling oThe Bulletin
7wenty-five years ago today — Aug. 4, 1990
ployees' thermal comfort,
— John Valenti stood outside his home, holding
a neutral condition of the body when it doesn' t
a video camera and watching the flames of the
have to shiver to produce
heat because it's too cold or sweat because it's too
Awbrey Hall Fire tear through areas west of Bend.
hot. It's based on four en-
He talked to himself and to the camera, chronicling the
vironmental factors: air temperature, radiant temperature, air velocity and
humidity. And two personal factors: clothing and metabolic rate, the amount
of energy required by the body to function. SeeThermostat/A4
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See video footage of the fire from John Valenti: fire's spread. "Getting bigger very fast," he bundbulletln.curn/AwbreynnnFlru said early in the recording. The massive flames moved day night and early the next closer to his home in every morning, the Awbrey Hall Fire Exto atl tr m.< clip. Around 10 p.m. the fire jumped over Century Drive \ was only a few hundred yards and thenthe Deschutes River, away from Valenti's home in leveling nearly two dozen \ the Westridge subdivision off homes. In 12 hours, the fire I Century Drive. charred just over 3,350 acres, "Everything in flames," he about 5'/4 square miles. said in the tape. "Goodbye, A quarter century later, the 4e s Westridge." fire stands out in the memories I The video fades out as of veteran firefighters for the I O I s smoke blows his way. Bend Fire Department. Now s •
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old videographer, was lucky: The fire turned away from his neighborhood. But 22 other
nearby homeowners were not. Charging into that Satur-
into one of timing and amount.
Consideredoneof the worstwildfires inthe history of Bend,the Awbrey Hall Fire,whichstarted 25 years agotoday, scorched morethan 3,350 acres, over5t/4 square miles, in12 hours. AUG. 4, 1990 3$6p.m. —Fire reported in Shevlin Park ona ridge nearAspenHall. hie p.m. —Awbrey Hall Fire headssouth. 3$0p.m. —Air tankers begin dropping fire retardant on theblaze,now2 acres in size. Sp.m. —Interagency commandcenter is set up as fire reaches350 acres. 9p.m. —150-foot flames cross Shevlin ParkRoad; residents within 10miles are evacuated. 990p.m. —Nowat 2,000 acres, thefire crosses Century Drive, destroys 16homes. 1lk30p.m. —Fire crosses the DeschutesRiver toward DeschutesRiver Woods, destroying six more homes. 1190p.m. —U.S.Highway 97 is closed tohelp with the evacuation.
develop, with community input, two comprehensive funding packages to consider
AUG. 5 3n.m. —Thefire stops moving forward, 6 miles from where it started. 6n.m. —Residents east of U.S. Highway 97are given anevacuation alert. en.m. —Crewscomplete a fire linearoundthe fire perimeter.
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Rememderinga destective dlaze
a battalion chief, Dave Howe
"It was unbelievable," he sard. SeeFire/A6
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include a gas tax to be placed on the March ballot, while the other
option will have no gas tax component. SeeGns tax /A4
ANALYSIS
WhenU.S. alliesfret,
he's there to reassure By Helene Cooper New Yorh Times News Service
WASHINGTON — President Barack
Obama's defense secretary, Ashton Carter, has become the secre-
tary of reassurance. In April, Carter
was in Tokyo, reassuring officials Carter
worried about China that the United
States would back Japan's administrative
AUG. 7 6p.m. —Fire is declared contained.
na Sea and provide its
AUG. 21 Crews declaretheAwbrey Hall Fireout.
its path.
down the road. One of the options would
AllG. 6 10am. —Evacueesare allowed to return home.
AUG. 9 6p.m.—Fire is declared controlled; crewscontinue to mopup.
was a fire captain the night the Awbrey Hall Fire blazed
In the end, a majority of the council voted to
Source: OregonDepartment of Forestry's "Disaster in themaking" publication, TheBulletin archive
control over disputed islands in the East Chiadvanced F-35 fighter jets to its foremost Pa-
cific ally. In June, he was in Tallinn, Estonia, reas-
suring officials worried about Russia that the United States would place battle tanks, in-
fantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons in Baltic and East-
ern European states. SeeCarter /A5
What a 15 minimumwage looks like in every state By Roberto A. Ferdman The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Look
around the country and you' ll find the same impassioned
argument about pay for lowwage workers istakingplace. The $15 minimum wage was
approved in Seattle last year and is currently being proposed in New York City. Bernie Sanders is pushing for a federal $15 floor. Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate leading the latest polls, would prefer it remain as is, at
$7.25 an hour. But raising the minimum
wage carries a different significance depending on where you live. A dollar goes a lot further in the South than it does in
New England. The Pew Research Center
used regional price parities, supplied by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, to estimate how fluctuations in purchasing power affect the real implications of a $15 minimum wage
— in New York City, where
around the country. Many of
are 12.2 percent below average.
the findings are fairly obvious
things are 22.3 percent more expensive than the national average, the hike wouldn't mean
quite as much as it would in Macon, Georgia, where prices SeeWage/A6