European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday september 8,1988 the stars and strip stripes Jet of a 2 Yellowstone towns fear rain of tire cooked City. Manl a fire fight cars worried in would Start raining fire tuesday hosed Down Bouses an bolstered lines against blazes that have blackened nearly i nillion acres in an around Yellowstone National Park. Southwesterly winds 20"to 30 Mph were expected after relatively lies winds monday. The changing winds could Send embed and Lames into this Community an nearby Silver Gate from the advancing 61,300-acre storm Creek Blaze and Back fires set to deprive the lire of fuel. We have about a 25 percent Chanc of holding the fire out of these two communities David Liebersbach incident commander in Silver Gate said on Abc to s today show tuesday morning. With these winds in will be heroic areal Success to save some of these build Ings said lire information officer pal Kaunert elsewhere in Yellowstone the142,000-acre North Fork fire burned to within a few Miles of the old faithful Geyser Tut authorities were optimistic inc fire would not reach the tourist at traction. The fire s about four Miles from old faithful. So if we do get those predicted winds we could have some problem there but i think we have a Good Chance said Bob Barbie Yellowstone National Park superintendent. I think the folks at old faithful havea lot belter Chance of saving those old structures than firefighters at Silver Center s Supply is in demand in Battle against Forest fires Boise Hilo at with 25,000ortofbten in the West tie logistics of no Plytas a of them i battering by off Leofi of the Federal Center o Moon the Boue intern to not to sotow.aT, 25,445 Tomten and near Tern �,9m Ihbe Mitrof coot fowl or 15 docket at Lor Flat fimm int Cord of Man Thia 3.4 mall pm pm hire been reported in the United states this veto. The Pinion record was u Man a tars la 1985 the Ore Mamie int Erata i nude of Al prof Lukl from the Bureau of Lui Mugue knt Rbt form service National Park str Rice Hoenof Liefl to Albin us the us. His . To kith us weekend the Center Hii mat it 2j million pob4j of up a a had id about s14 with the other been ttys the certes to Tah Fahri t. To Birt i to state Man thu 67,000 ,cmbby., Bora Tai thu Cuhl fonts turn indie Chr not a i fur raw Western Edge of the massive North for fire that burned out of Yellowstone Dur ing the weekend forcing an estimated150-200 summer Cabin owners to evac Silver Gale and Cooke City near Yellowstone s northeastern Entrance Allbut 30 of the approximately 150 Resi dents had evacuated. Gate said Barbee also appearing on thirteen 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 that have scorched More than 26,000 cause does ,. Ices official. They re mostly packed up though and we re trying to push them winds blew Ash and smoke to Ward the towns monday it starts snowing Ash. Then it starts raining fire said without the winds fires jumped lines in Many areas. Firefighters responded with renewed attacks of air and ground. Crews dug lines by hand in Ter rain too Steep for heavy equipment. Lines were completed monday around Silver Gate and nearly completed around Cooke City said fire information officer sue console about 75 trucks were called in from Asfar away As Nevada to protect buildings acres. The guardsmen will help Crews in the communities working a 12,500-acre Blaze in the North x Hopes of burning out fuels from a ,. Muc Swath in the fire s path were dashed failed to Burn As expected jetting towns with less Protection than officials had service officials in Northwest Montana also prepared an evacuation plan for Homes in a inst Imattia area South Eastern part of the Bosses Don t expect to have the Blaze the state s largest contained until saturday said Patty Burel spokeswoman for the Conville National Forestin Idaho 13 Forest fires raged out of control. A new fire broke out monday seven Miles North of Island Park on the of the tiny town of Fortine. Seattle checks shoot out in . Apartment its wiring after leaves Man 2 children dead 4-Day by Ackoff Seattle a with Power restored in a 50-Btock downtown area after 4 four Day blackout Crews Are checking for wiring similar to the kind that contributed to the City own 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 l retail financial and hotel Ore was restored by sunday evening. Seattle City Light officials attributed the severity of the 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-Voll feeder cables. During the height of he blackout officials Esti mated thai 90 percent of ill businesses were closed in inc area which included to estimated 130 restaurants,55 shops in the popular if Ike place Market the Bon Marche department store the g75-room Westin Homeland uncounted other hotels food stores and taverns. City Light officials sai4 they had no estimate of the Utility s losses and the Colts of restoring Power. There was no Cost estimate available for losses sustained bythe Utility s customers. Scot Forslund a Utility spokesman said in might be several Days before pow is restored to the last build ing without service a parking garage near the vault because its Low voltage Supply lines were destroyed in the same fire that wrecked the feeder cables. The fire began in Low voltage Utility lines betwee transformers in the Vail and individual buildings said City Light assistant superintendent Jerry Carman. As the system healed Power to the High voltage feeder cables should hav been Cul by current limit Ere but the transit Cable melted and its molten Alu Minum Cul the High Volt we cables before Power could be shut off 10 All but two of aluminium melts it s just like adding Gaso line to a fire. City Light spokesman Hugh Mclntosh look what would have been a minor inconvenience and turned in into a major even Carman said. It s like we had eight or nine welding torches going at the same 5 City Light Crews will Check other locations with Sim Ilar combinations of Utility and metro cables to try to prevent a similar outage Carman said. New York a police held at Bay for nine hours tuesday by a rain of Shotgun pellets returned fire and mortally wounded the sniper through his door. Two children were found dead inside the High Rise apartment. The siege left 14 officers injured but All were treated and released officials at two hospitals said. Cho Mun Chu 45, who was removed from his City subsidized lower East Side apartment on a Stretcher died later at Bill clue Hospital a police spokesman said. The bodies of 8-Ycar-Ctd Helen Chu and her 9-year-old brother Warren Chu were found with wounds to the head covered with blankets and pillows in the hallway of inc apartment police said. They were shot with what was believed to be a Long barrel Shotgun filled with Bird Shol said police spokes Man la. Steven Davis. The girl s death was believed to be inc first time inthe 15-year history of the elite police hostage negotiating unit that a hostage was lost during negotiations said another police spokesman sgt. Raymond o Donnell. Police believe the boy was already dead when the arrived but the girl was seen alive by police. Commissioner Benjamin Ward said. Chu s wife Hui Choy Chu. Who also used the Nam Angela was believed to be in Taiwan said o Donnell. Ward said police were forced to shoot Chu in self defense after removing the door to his ii in floor apartment from its hinges in an attempt to bring the girl to safety. We waited until he fired Point Blank one Cap Tain was hit four lieutenants were hit and one police officer was hit by pellets and he was now firing Pointblank at the door the commissioner said. The officers resumed two shots hitting Chu twice inthe Chest Ward said. First Deputy police commissioner Richard Condo said earlier that a rain of pellets descended on offi cers who arrived about 6 . To investigate a report of shots fired. Scores of police then cordoned off a four Block Are around the building. The for drive a main Highway along the East River into Manhattan was closed i both directions near the Brooklyn Bridge creating enormous traffic jams. Police had said the Man had made no threats again this family and in the course of negotiations had made no demands he seems to have some kind of financial problem Sand family problems and that seems to be what has set him off Condon said. Victoria Parker who lives on the 18th floor of the building said the Man recently moved in and quickly gained a reputation for having a bad temper. He got into it with management and the tenants she said. Cop killer suspect caught in Mexico one of the Fri s 10 most wanted fugitives a suspect in the october 19b7 murder of a Boson police ofricer7 Vart sled in Mexico after year Long search officials sai3 monday. Investigators had followed the Ifa Ilof Ted Jeffrey Otsuki from Boston to California and that Typo Guadalajara Mexico where Otsuki was arrested late Sun Day said Neil Gallagher assistant special agent charge of the Fri s Boston proceedings were under Way monday. We Hope to get him out immediately Gallagher said. Police officers and Federal agents travelled to South Texas last week to follow up leads in the Case said James p. Ahead special agent in charge of the Bostons by Bureau. Officials said Otsuki 35,-was arrested without Inci Dent 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 a firearm interstate flight to avoid prosecution and parole violations Gallagher said. Otsuki a Brownsville Texas native was on parole adar serving a prison sentence for robbing a Texas when he allegedly Shol detective Roy j. Sergei,42, amt Najip wounded Rookie officer Jorge Torres in Boson Gatum Lucr officers Ett shot by a suspect they stopped from climbing a Fence to irid a building. The suspect led. Sergei died later at has dial of a heart attack which the medical examiner Chotu led resulted Froman embolism directly related to his,1
