FIRE THREATENS T.F. HOMES Wreckage Found of Plane Last Seen in Jerome
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92/ 59 Filer couple grows garlic and more Home & Garden 1 Sunny, hot. H&G 4 PUTTING ON THE PADS >>> High school football practice begins across the Magic Valley, SPORTS 1 TUESDAY 75 CENTS August 11, 2009 MagicValley.com FIRE THREATENS T.F. HOMES Wreckage found of plane last seen in Jerome By Ben Botkin father and two sons, said Times-News writer Sgt. Rich Harriman with the Malheur County Sheriff’s Search and rescue workers Office. found the wreckage of a pri- Names of the victims vate plane Monday after- weren’t released late noon in rural Oregon with Monday pending notifica- three victims, at least one of tion of family. Harriman which has Cassia County- said his office has contacted area ties. the Cassia County Sheriff’s The plane was reported Office in Burley to assist missing after it left the with the notification of the Jerome County Airport at victims’ family. Police in 11:30 a.m. Friday on its way Lehi, Utah, were also con- to Ilwaco, Wash., according tacted to assist with the to the Idaho Civil Air Patrol. notification. The Idaho Civil Air Patrol Harriman said the air- sent out two airplanes and plane’s last known radar two ground teams to search coordinates put the aircraft for the missing plane. in his agency’s area. ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News The Civil Air Patrol and a Cassia County officials Lee Odenwald battles a blaze Monday afternoon with a garden hose in his neighbor’s backyard off of Creek View Drive, just northwest of Twin search and rescue airplane couldn’t be reached Falls. The Twin Falls Fire Department responded to the fire with two engines, a tender and an attack vehicle. with the Malheur County Monday night. Sheriff’s Department in Oregon deputies verified eastern Oregon spotted the the wreckage was indeed Rock Creek Canyon fire quelled by T.F. crews wreckage of the low-wing, the same plane after travel- single-engine Navion in ing by ground to the crash Times-News to the flames, he said. He Malheur County, Ore., about site. Magicvalley.com praised the fire district for 16 miles south of Homedale. Lt. Bill Johnson with the A small fire northwest of its “excellent response” The three victims, all Twin Falls threatened WATCH a video of the fire scene. and noted no one was hurt. males, are believed to be a See PLANE Main 2 homes along Rock Creek “I came home, and here Canyon on Monday. it was,”he said. The fire, which started a Rock Creek Canyon east of edge of a few area back- The Twin Falls Fire little before 5 p.m. Monday, Creek View Drive, prompt- yards, as heavy smoke Department responded to was still being dealt with ing some residents, like Lee choked visibility near the the scene with two fire Idaho National and mopped up by Twin Odenwald, to battle the canyon. engines, a tender and an Falls Fire Department blaze with garden hoses Max Yingst, one of the attack vehicle. Official crews at 9:30 p.m. before firefighters arrived. homeowners, said he was details pertaining to the Earlier, flames and Though the fire mostly away when the blaze start- size of the fire, its origin guardsman smoke visible from across stayed in the canyon, tips ed. Neighbors along the and damage done were not northern Twin Falls filled of it did creep up to the road all alerted each other available Monday night. charged with rape By Andrea Jackson drink” that Wiser made for Buhl man pleads guilty to sturgeon poaching Times-News writer her and was unconscious during the sex, which physi- By Nate Poppino license for that time under $50,000 fine in addition to trying to figure out how to An Idaho Army National cally injured her, according Times-News writer the terms of a plea agree- the civil penalty, which is fillet them. Guard soldier is charged to court records. ment. He would also pay a required by Idaho statute. Withers consulted with rape as police continue Wiser’s employment is A Buhl man accused of civil penalty of $1,750 and According to an affidavit friends, who didn’t know to investigate other allega- listed in court records as illegally taking three stur- have as much as three years filed by an Idaho how to fillet them either, tions that the citizen soldier “CSI security” and “Idaho geon from the Snake River in jail — one year fixed — Department of Fish and and he decided to “get rid” stalked an ex-wife and National Guard.” in June pleaded guilty to one suspended until he com- Game officer, Withers of the fish in a ditch across threatened to kill someone. Capt. Doug Uphoff, of the felony count Monday pletes probation. allegedly caught the fish — the street, according to Donovan Edwin Wiser,26, Idaho Army National Guard morning during his arraign- The agreement does not all 30- to 36-inches-long — court papers. Citizens was charged July 22 with confirmed Monday that he is ment in district court. bind 5th District Judge in the Snake River on June 13 Against Poaching alerted raping a woman at his Twin aware of the allegations Thomas B. Withers, 31, Randy Stoker, who could and took them to his house, Fish and Game when Falls home during a party in against Wiser. Wiser could face five years’ proba- sentence Withers to up to where he kept them in a May. The female victim tion and lose his fishing five years in prison and a bathtub full of water while See STURGEON, Main 2 allegedly drank a “mixed See RAPE, Main 2 State gets no takers Crews blanket Bassett Gluch with straw By Karen Bossick Times-News correspondent for Idaho wolves KETCHUM — The wind The Associated Press A bill approved by the from the helicopter lower- 2009 Legislature required ing into place slammed first, LEWISTON — Idaho isn’t the department to explore nearly knocking fire reha- getting into the wolf export the idea. bilitation workers off their business any time soon. Sen. Gary Schroeder, feet. Earlier this year, Idaho R-Moscow, the bill’s spon- Next came a blizzard of Department of Fish and sor, says he didn’t expect any straw stirred up by the heli- Game Director Cal Groen takers. Instead, he said the copter’s rotors circling over sent letters offering up Idaho pitch to other states is an the straw bales. wolves to any state that attempt to help insulate the Finally, workers wearing wanted to manage them. state against claims that hard hats and goggles got a So far, at least 20 states could be made in lawsuits by momentary reprieve as the have rejected Idaho’s pitch to environmentalists opposed helicopter sailed toward a trap and export some of its to the federal government’s nearby ridge top where it wolves. decision to take wolves off unleashed an explosion of the endangered species list. straw in the sky. He said environmentalists “All this straw flying could argue that if Idaho around definitely hurts — wants to reduce its wolf it’s like getting hit with nee- KAREN BOSSICK/For the Times-News numbers, then it should give dles,”said fire rehabilitation A worker guides a line hanging from a helicopter toward a load of straw to dump along Warm Springs them away instead of killing Road near Ketchum on Monday. Workers spread straw across land burned by the 2007 Castle Rock Fire in or allowing public hunts. worker Kyle Telaroli. “But Schroeder has been out- that’s the price you pay to an effort to prevent mudslides caused by heavy rains. spoken against the state’s get the job done.” growing wolf population, in The job involved blanket- grass and noxious weeds. storms over the past several side treatments in May part due to their impact on ing 250 acres in the Bassett Crews hope to finish the months have caused mud to 2008, treating sites above the state’s elk and deer. Gulch area along Warm work today. slide into Warm Springs homes. We didn’t do treat- “Now we are in a legal Springs Road west of The area west of Lower Creek and across the road, ments where the latest position in court Ketchum with 500,000 Board Ranch was heavily temporarily closing the slides have occurred pounds of straw that had burned in the 2007 Castle road. See WOLVES, Main 2 been certified free of cheat Rock Fire and intense rain- “We did a number of hill- See STRAW, Main 2 Comics....................Sports 4 Crossword................H&G 10 Obituaries............ 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