Bulletin Daily Paper 08/04/10

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ROOSTER ROCK FIRE

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2-year-old Gina, shown with Staff Sgt. Melinda Miller, was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after a bombsniffing mission in Iraq.

Crews keep busy as blaze expands

Stress of war taking a toll on dogs in the military

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By Dan Elliott The Associated Press

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Mt. Hood Initial Attack crew members Rusty Smith, left, and Sean Martin mop up an area near a house at the east end of the Rooster Rock Fire on Tuesday afternoon.

By Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin

SISTERS — The Rooster Rock Fire grew to 2,700 acres Tuesday, as helicopters ferried in buckets of water and crews tried to stop the spread of a smaller fire that jumped ahead of the main blaze. After Monday, when winds whipped the fire forward, Tuesday’s fire activity calmed down a bit, said Lisa Clark, fire information officer with the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center. And with 550 firefighters and other personnel working to quench the area’s first major fire of the season, the boundaries did not expand very far during the day Tuesday, she said. “Anything that does happen is quickly handled, so it never really had the chance to get that full head of steam that it had yesterday,” Clark said. See Fire / A5

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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Gina was a playful 2-year-old German shepherd when she went to Iraq as a highly trained bomb-sniffing dog with the military, conducting door-todoor searches and witnessing all sorts of noisy explosions. She returned home to Colorado cowering and fearful. When her handlers tried to take her into a building, she would stiffen her legs and resist. Once inside, she would tuck her tail beneath her body and slink along the floor. She would hide under furniture or in a corner to avoid people. A military veterinarian diagnosed her with post-traumatic stress disorder — a condition that some experts say can afflict dogs just like it does humans. “She showed all the symptoms and she had all the signs,” said Master Sgt. Eric Haynes, the kennel master at Peterson Air Force Base. “She was terrified of everybody and it was obviously a condition that led her down that road.” A year later, Gina is on the mend. Frequent walks among friendly people and a gradual reintroduction to the noises of military life have begun to overcome her fears, Haynes said. Haynes describes her progress as “outstanding.” “Pretty fabulous, actually,” added Staff Sgt. Melinda Miller, who’s been Gina’s handler since May. “She makes me look pretty good.” See Dogs / A4

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By Kate Ramsayer

Bend’s Wildfire Air Quality Rating was downgraded to “moderate” Tuesday by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. According to the DEQ, smoke can cause symptoms such as coughing, irritated sinuses and headaches. The elderly, children and people with conditions such as asthma are at a higher risk of being affected. Central Oregon residents are advised to take precautions including avoiding strenuous outdoor activity, and staying indoors with doors and windows closed. Check air quality ratings at www .deq.state.or.us/aqi/index.aspx or www.oregon.gov/ODF/FIRE/fire .shtml.

REDMOND — With thick pillars of brownish grey smoke filling the air south of Sisters on Tuesday afternoon, about 70 families were on alert, warned they could have to evacuate if the Rooster Rock Fire came any closer. Another 30 families had evacuated the night before, as the wildfire jumped through the ponderosa pine and sagebrush. Rob Williams’ new home, which he bought less than two weeks ago, was in the fire’s path. “It’s not quite as good as a Welcome Wagon,” Williams said. But aerial firefighting resources dropped fire retardant Monday night, leaving a red coating on the rocks and dirt and shrubs. And with the help of ground crews, firefighters were able to keep the fire from damaging his house. See Residents / A5

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New Jersey excavation may help rewrite black history By DeNeen Brown The Washington Post

TIMBUCTOO, N.J. — In Timbuctoo lies a hill. Underneath that hill lies a house, or what archaeologists think might have been a house once upon a time. The silver clasp of a woman’s handbag, piles of Mason jars, chips of dinner plates and an empty jar of Dixie Peach Pomade lie among the bricks that have broken away from the foundation.

These are crushed fragments of a past life when free black people lived in this New Jersey community almost 200 years ago — free even then, 45 years before Emancipation. “Most of the history of this country is in that house,” says David Orr, a classical archaeologist and professor of anthropology at Temple University. Orr is standing at the site down a gray road in Timbuctoo. See History / A4

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Concealed handgun license holders around Central Oregon have been asked to let officials know if they want their license information kept private — and so far, most of them do. The discussion was sparked by a court case in Jackson County, where Sheriff Michael Winters denied a public records request from the Medford Mail Tribune for a list of all concealed handgun licenses issued in the county over a two-year period. The newspaper took the sheriff to court, and in June, the Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision that the sheriff could not withhold the information. Winters had suggested that turning over the records could endanger people’s security. The three-judge panel, however, said the sheriff would need to provide specific details for each license holder if they want the safety risk argument to stand a chance in court. Now, law enforcement officials in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties are reaching out to the approximately 10,500 people who hold concealed handgun licenses in the tri-county area to let them know about the decision — and to ask if they want their records kept confidential, in case someone requests their information. See Handguns / A4

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After Haiti earthquake, the chaos of U.S. adoptions By Ginger Thompson New York Times News Service

BAXTER, Minn. — Beechestore and Rosecarline, two Haitian teenagers in the throes of puberty, were not supposed to be adopted. At the end of last year, American authorities denied the petition of a couple here to adopt the brother and sister after their biological father opposed relinquishing custody. Reluctantly, Marc and Teresa Stroot decided to move on. Then on Jan. 12, a devastating earthquake toppled Haiti’s capital and set off an international adoption bonanza in which some safeguards meant to protect children were ignored. Leading the way was the Obama administration, which responded to the pleas of prospective adoptive parents and the lawmakers assisting them by lifting visa requirements for children in the process of being adopted by Americans. See Haiti / A5

Page A1, the date of the election for district attorney was incorrect. The election took place in May. The Bulletin regrets the error.


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