European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 3 2 Yellowstone towns fear rain of fire Cooke City. Mont. A fire fighters worried n would Start raining fire tuesday hosed Down houses and bolstered lines against hazes that have blackened nearly 1 million acres in and around Yellowstone National Park. Southwesterly winds 20 to 30 Mph were expected after relatively Light winds monday. The changing winds could Send embers and names into this Community and nearby Silver Gate from the advancing61,300-acre storm Creek Blaze and Back fires Sci to deprive inc fire of fuel. We have about a 25 percent Chance of holding the Fil c out of i desc two communities David Lic Borsbach incident commander in Silver Gate said Onnic to s today show tuesday morning. With these winds it will be heroic a real Success to save some of these build Ings said fire information officer Pat Kaunert. Elsewhere in Yellowstone the 142,000-Acrc North Fork fire burned to within a few Miles of the old faithful Geyser but authorities were Opl Mistie the fire would not reach the Younst at traction. The fire s about four Miles from old faithful. So if we do get those predicted winds we could have some problems there but i think we have a Good Chance said Bob Barbee Yellowstone National Park superintendent. I think the folks at old faithful have a lot belter Chance of saving those old structures than firefighters at Silver Center s Supply is in demand in Battle against Forest fires Boise Idaho a with 15,000 firefighter in the West the Lotf Ftp of supplying nil of them is staggering Sty of Lockli of the Federal Center  As of monday the Bopae inter Gen by fire Center a sent out 50,000 pain of Fin near data Glare 25,445 pain of flame proof to nun us nearly 37,000 Piper sleeping  Law hiudijtiib.ted7l.607 can teen 30,984 Hirst nearly 3,000 Etas of foot powder 15 pocket Distio Haifa us for fireoihlent1 intern blazes Ibl bottle of antacid. The Center Htam ubed b 1965, b re i to state and Toerag Afendra throw ibo the country. More than 67,000 do Banting a record of More than 3.6 minion kit. Ban been reported in the unite states this year. The previous record 3.2 million am in 1985. The Fin management Center is made of of Persona from the Burean of land management the Forest sen ice National Park a Tralee Bur Tai of Indi an a Kors and the is. Fish and wildlife service. Through the weekend the Center Bai int out 23 million Pondi of a liw tallied it about $14 million. Along with the other Accett attn a blk affairs offer Arnold har Faan mid 103,000 Meuane forma a been  to  Tali a. The Gor cnugent Aad Weda need to keep in on oar paperwork held. Gale said barbed also appearing on today Thileen fires in and around Yellowstone have scorched 900,000 acres. In Washington gov. Booth Gardner on monday called in the National guard to support firefighters battling blazes thai have scorched More than 26,000 acres. The guardsmen will help Crews working a 12,500-acre Blaze in the North Eastern pan of the  Bosses Don t expect to have the Blaze the state s largest contained until saturday said Patty Burcl. Spokeswoman for the Conville National Forest. In Idaho 13 Forest fires raged out of control. A new fire broke out monday seven Miles North Folsland Park on the Western Edge of the massive North Fork fire thai burned out of Yellowstone Dur ing the weekend forcing an estimated 150-200 summer Cabin owners to evac  Silver Gale and Cooke City near Yellowstone s northeastern Entrance Allbut 30 of the approximately 150 Resi dents had  of them Are slaying around be cause they want to Sec what the fire does said Bob Fry an emergency serv ices official. They re mostly packed up though and we re trying to push them  winds blew Ash and smoke to Ward she towns monday afternoon. First it starts snowing Ash. Then it starts raining fire said  without the winds fires jumped lines in Many areas. Firefighters responded with renewed attacks by air and ground. Crews dug lines by hand in Ter rain too Steep for heavy equipment. Lines were completed monday around Silver Gale and nearly completed around Cooke City said fire information officer sue console about 75 trucks were called in from As far away As Nevada to protect buildings in the  of burning out fuels from a two Milc Swath in the fire s path were dashed when backfires failed to bum As expected leaving towns with less Protection than officials had  service officials in Northwest Montana also prepared an evacuation plan for Homes in a residential area South of the tiny town of Fortine. Seattle checks ifs wiring offer 4-Day blackout Seattle a with Power restored in a 50 Block downtown area after a four Day blackout Crews arc checking for wiring similar to the kind thai contributed to inc City owned Utility s worst outage. The precise cause of the fire that resulted in the outage last week remained undetermined. Power to All but one building in the City s retail financial and hotel Core was restored by sunday evening. Seattle City Light officials attributed the severity ofic blackout to the melting of an aluminium direct current Supply Cable for overhead electrical trolley bus lines in an underground vault that also contained six of the Utility s 13,000-Volt feeder cables. During the height of the blackout officials Esti mated that 90 percent of All businesses were closed in the area which included an estimated 130 restaurants 55 shops in the popular Pike place Market the Bon March department store inc 875-room Weslin hotel and uncounted other hotels food stores and taverns. City Light officials said they had no estimate of the Utility s losses and the costs of restoring Power there was no Cost estimate available for losses sustained by the Utility s customers. Scott Forslund a Utility spokesman said in might be several Days before Power is restored to the last build ing without service a parking garage near the vault because its Low voltage Supply lines were destroyed in inc same fire that wrecked the feeder cables. The fire began in Low voltage Utility lines Between transformers in the vault and individual buildings said City Light assistant superintendent Jerry Carman. As the system heated Power to the High voltage feeder cables should have been Cut by current limit ers but the transit Cable melted and its molten Alu Minum Cul the High voltage cables before Power could be shut off to All but two Althem. When aluminium melts it s just like adding Gaso line to a fire City Light spokesman Hugh Mclntosh said. It look what would have been a minor inconvenience and turned it into a major events Carma said. It s like we had eight or nine welding torches going at the same  City Light Crews will Check other locations with Sim Ilar combinations of Utility and metro cables to try to prevent a similar Ruuge Carman said. Campaign 88how the states appear to be shaping up two months before the election Sobush no cleaning Czi toss up leaning  toward Bush Dukakis cop killer suspect caught in Mexico Boston a one of the Fri s 10 most wanted fugitives a suspect in the october 1987 murder of a Boston police officer was arrested in Mexico after a year Long search officials said monday. Investigators had followed the Trail of Ted Jeffrey Otsuki from Boston to California and finally to Guadalajara Mexico where Otsuki was arrested late Sun Day said Nell Gallagher assistant special agent in charge of the Fri s Boston office. Extradition proceedings were underway monday. We Hope to gel him out immediately Gallagher  officers and Federal agents travelled to South Texas last week to follow up leads in the Case said James f. Ahcarn special agent in charge of the Boston Fri Bureau. Officials said Otsuki 33, was arrested without Inci Donl As he returned to his condominium in Mexico. In addition to the police shooting Otsuki faces charge sin connection with the unlawful Possession of explosives Possession of n firearm interstate flight to avoid prosecution and parole violations Gallagher said. Otsuki a Brownsville Texas native was on parole after serving a prison sentence for robbing a Texas Bank when tie allegedly shot detective Roy j. Sergei 42, and also wounded Rookie officer Jorge Torre in Boston Gallagher said. The officers were shot by a suspect they slopped from climbing a Fence behind a building. The suspect fled. Sergei died later at a Hospital of a heart attack which the medical examiner concluded resulted from an embolism directly related to his wounds