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Camp Disautel Family Health draws out B4 A6 Centers opens music students new facility The Omak-OkanOgan COunTy World-Famous Suicide Race runoffs finalize field B1 August 6, 2014 Essential Reading in Okanogan and Ferry counties. $1.00 Pateros mayor resigns in fire’s wake Harrison leaves on family “I don’t really want to be burned, as did that of her needs.” mayor, but would fill the job” if mother, Carolyn Hamshaw. after Carlton fire Harrison asked, he said. “I probably Brady said her uncle also could not be would run in the fall. It would lost his home. destroys her home reached for take a year or so to put together Brady, 67, said he wasn’t comment. the town’s response” to the fire. told directly by Harrison of her By Dee Camp Mayor Pro The fire roared into town the intent to resign, but was “not The Chronicle Tempore night of July 17 and destroyed really surprised.” George Brady 38 or 40 homes. As a former state PATEROS – Mayor Liberty is stepping Overall, the fire – which is Department of Fish and “Libby” Harrison has resigned, Harrison into the still burning – has leveled Wildlife officer who was saying she needs to concentrate mayor’s shoes around 300 homes from Malott “farmed out” to other agencies on rebuilding the home she lost until the City Council can name to Pateros to rural Winthrop, to help with emergencies over to the Carlton Complex fire. a more permanent replacement. killed livestock and wildlife, his 30-year career, Brady said “The disaster that hit He said he would take on those burned crops and trees, and he’s had lots of experience Pateros greatly affected Mayor duties if asked, and would run destroyed fencing and other dealing with disasters and has Doug Camp/Special to The Chronicle Libby and her family,” City for election in the fall to help farm structures. been helping with the fire Clerk Kerri Wilson said. “Mayor see the city through fire Wilson said Libby and A children’s play set and pool are all that remain in the Libby is stepping down to focus recovery. Forrest Harrison’s home See Mayor A5 Harrisons’ yard in Pateros. Man injured in stabbing Details of incident Tonasket and then transferred to Sacred Heart Medical Center. remain sketchy; no “We have executed a search warrant at the residence and suspect identified are finishing up there now,” Rogers said. The Chronicle Omer was “very uncooperative” at the scene and OROVILLE –An Oroville refused to tell deputies man is in Sacred Heart Medical anything, the sheriff said. Center in Spokane following a “I have an Okanogan County stabbing that occurred at his sheriff’s detective in Spokane home last week. right now,” he said Monday. John R. Omer, 58, of rural “She went to Sacred Heard to Oroville, was found by a friend, interview Omer. He keeps moaning, at his home telling us he doesn’t know what Thursday, said Okanogan happened.” County Sheriff Frank Rogers. Rogers said the case is still “It appears he was stabbed under investigation. several times,” said Rogers. “We have no suspects at this Omer suffered multiple time,” he said. “No one is in wounds to the chest and back, custody.” and one to the head. As of press time, Omer was Omer was taken to the in surgery and his condition North Valley Hospital in was unknown. Al Camp/The Chronicle Man drowns in A spruce tree crushes a trailer in Okanogan following a wind storm that ripped through the valley Saturday afternoon. Lake Osoyoos Tree topples onto trailer The Chronicle OROVILLE – The body of a Missing man’s No one injured in “I didn’t hear anything, but I Surrey, B.C., man was felt it,” Wilson said. His recovered Sunday night from body found Saturday afternoon “ girlfriend ran out of the Lake Osoyoos, near Veranda bathroom, holding her head Beach. The Chronicle wind storm mishap I didn’t hear anything, but I felt it. and thinking the roof was going John M. Mele, 43, drowned to cave in. Friday afternoon after he OKANOGAN – The body of By Al Camp Adam Wilson “I was worried she was hurt, allegedly did a back flip off a a local man was recovered from The Chronicle but she wasn’t,” he said. boat into the water. the Okanogan River on Friday “I heard screaming, so I took “Mele began to surface and evening. OKANOGAN – A sudden the baby (she was watching) then went back under the water The Okanogan County windstorm blew through town ” and ran,” Janice Batton said. and disappeared,” Okanogan Sheriff’s Office responded to a Saturday, causing a tree to She was in a nearby trailer. “I County Sheriff Frank Rogers call around 7 p.m. for a body topple onto trailers at Blue just heard them screaming that said. discovered in the river along Mountain Motel, 1034 S. been on her roof before, so she stayed in the demolished trailer a tree was down.” The call came in around the 700 block of North Second Second Ave. hollered for them to get off her a night earlier, but no one was Jon Leaf Sr. was clearing 1:30 p.m. Friday. Divers from Avenue in Okanogan. No one was injured when the trailer. there when the sizeable tree fell. fallen limbs on a nearby road the Sheriff’s Office, private Malcolm C. Tervo, 64, had tree fell around 3:37 p.m., Phillip Lester Jr., who called Adam Wilson and his when he heard a pair of cracks divers and those from Canada been taken to Mid-Valley crushing one trailer and 911, said he heard scratching girlfriend lived in a trailer on as the tree toppled. spent the weekend combing the Hospital in Omak on Nov. 15, severely damaging another. and then a thunk. When he the other side of the crushed “I ran down to see if lake, and with the help of sonar 2013. Sheriff Frank Rogers said “I was putting clothes in the looked, he did not see the tree trailer. Their home appeared to everyone was OK,” said Leaf, equipment, were able to locate it is unclear whether he was tub to soak,” said Violet “Alex” that sat in the middle of the be unlivable, the front being who saw the tree go over with Mele’s body. admitted, but he left on his Bartlett, who lived next to a trailers south of the motel. The opened by tree limbs. his friend, Jessie Powell. Mele and his family own. trailer that was crushed. “Then trailers and motel are all owned The motel owner allowed the Within a half hour, several apparently had come to the I heard pine cones on the roof.” together. couple to stay that night in a people with chainsaws started See Missing A5 Bartlett said children had Bartlett said someone had vacant building on the property. to whittle down the tree. See Drown A5 Firefighters getting upper hand on blaze Carlton Complex contained. the high of more than 3,000. As said. Structural engines are in Electric Cooperative when As of Monday, it was 255,164 of Monday, there were 38 crews Five hot shot crews, with place to patrol for new flare-ups transmission and distribution tops 255,000 acres; acres, including the 502-acre of 20 persons each, 113 engines helicopter assistance, began to and respond to initial attack lines burned in fires. The co- Rising Eagle Road Fire that and 31 water tenders assigned construct direct line on the where wildlands and homes op’s electricity is delivered via crew at 1,700 erupted Friday south of to the fire, along with 17 steep western and northern meet. the Loup Loup transmission Winthrop. That blaze was helicopters and one air support portions of the fire perimeter In other fire-related line, which was damaged by the By Dee Camp caused by sparks from a trailer vehicle. near Pearrygin Lake,” fire developments: fire. The Chronicle wheel rim after the tire went “Fire crews worked officials said. “Air resources • The Okanogan County Utility district officials say flat. aggressively toward continue to play a vital role in Public Utility District expects to it’s a good thing that work is CARLTON – Firefighters are For the main part of the fire, containment, strengthening the successful containment of restore electricity to all almost done, since there are no getting the upper hand on the sparked by lighting July 14 as line as high winds are due in the this complex, supporting customers by Thursday. hotel rooms remaining in the three-week-old Carlton four fires that later burned area this Tuesday,” fire officials suppression efforts and Power was cut to around area because of this weekend’s Complex fire, with the blaze together, fire crews have been with the Rocky Mountain assisting with critical initial 7,000 customers of the district now about 90 percent reduced to around 1,700 from Incident Management Team attack fires in the vicinity.” and adjacent Okanogan County See Fire A5 Year 105 No. 23 www.omakchronicle.com 101 N. 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