BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard NORTHWEST Tip leads police to man accused in shooting PORTLAND - Police say it was a tip that led them to a 20-year-old man accused of shooting a woman in a van on a Portland freeway. Michael Speck, 20, was accused of assault and arms charges. He fired a 9 mm pistol Friday from among brush and trees on a bluff near Interstate 205 on Portland's east side, police said. Police said the tip from a woman who said she knew too much to keep quiet led them to the spot, where they found a casing. The bullet came through an open window and broke the collarbone col·lar·bone n. See clavicle. of the victim, a passenger. Police said she has returned to her home in the Willamette Valley The Willamette Valley (pronounced [wɪˈlæ.mɪt], with the accent on the second syllable) is the region in northwest Oregon in the United States that surrounds the Willamette River as it proceeds northward from its . Her name has not been released. Oregon firefighters still battling eight blazes PORTLAND - Firefighters in Oregon battled eight major blazes through the Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. weekend and faced unfavorable weather, thinning ranks and the prospect of dealing with campfires left untended from the summer's last big celebration. The hot, dry weather is expected to continue for a couple of weeks, said Jeree Mills, spokeswoman for the Northwest Interagency Coordination Within the context of Department of Defense involvement, the coordination that occurs between elements of Department of Defense, and engaged US Government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and regional and international organizations for the purpose of accomplishing an objective. Center, an umbrella regional firefighting 1. firefighting - What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems. An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new newsreader?" "No, a power glitch hosed the network and I spent the whole afternoon fighting fires." 2. agency. That means storm patterns that bring hundreds of lightning strikes to start new fires and difficulty in fighting established fires. ``We're not seeing any end in sight,'' she said. One military outfit has been withdrawn from the region, and students who make summer jobs of fighting fires are beginning to drift back to college. None of the major fires burning in Oregon posed significant threats to structures or humans. In the Cascade Range Cascade Range, mountain chain, c.700 mi (1,130 km) long, extending S from British Columbia to N Calif., where it becomes the Sierra Nevada; it parallels the Coast Ranges, 100–150 mi (161–241 km) inland from the Pacific Ocean. , firefighters said, the Puzzle Fire hadn't made further advances toward the town of Marion Forks in eastern Linn County Linn County is the name of four counties in the United States:
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