Flames leap from brush, logs.Byline: RANDI RANDI Random Integer RANDI Recognition and Identification RANDI Research Ambient Noise Directionality Model BJORNSTAD The Register-Guard GOSHEN Goshen, city, United States Goshen, city (1990 pop. 23,797), seat of Elkhart co., N Ind., on the Elkhart River; inc. 1868. Goshen is in a farm and dairy region; poultry is also raised and processed. - Fire struck twice Wednesday just south of Goshen, first in a brushy area adjacent to the Cone Lumber Co., then in piles of logs waiting to be chipped at the nearby Wood Recovery plant, which chips leftover sawmill sawmill, installation or facility in which cut logs are sawed into standard-sized boards and timbers. The saws used in such an installation are generally of three types: the circular saw, which consists of a disk with teeth around its edge; the band saw, which logs for paper production. When the second fire burned a power pole power pole Noun Austral & NZ a pole carrying an overhead power line and threatened a Lane Electric Cooperative 34,500-volt transmission line, General Manager Rick Crinklaw had the line taken out of service, cutting power to an estimated 1,200 to 1,500 homes in the Creswell-Pleasant Hill area around 11:30 p.m. "Spraying water on and around the line was not a safe situation for the firefighters," Crinklaw said shortly after 12:30 a.m. today, noting that he expected power to be restored within a couple of hours. He emphasized, however, that the line wouldn't be re-energized until the firefighters decided it would be safe to do so. Crinklaw said the affected line draws power from the Bonneville Power Administration The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is a U.S. self-financed federal agency which transmits and sells wholesale electricity in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana. The BPA is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. substation at Goshen. The BPA BPA British Paediatric Association. substation remained on line, he said, but two or three substations south of Goshen had to be shut down. Wood Recovery owner Dennis Van Wyk, watched as firefighters from the Goshen, Creswell, Pleasant Hill, Dexter and Eugene fire departments battled the flames to keep them from spreading. "This shouldn't have happened - there was no excuse for this," Van Wyk said. The first fire began about 5 p.m. Firefighters had just left the scene about a half-hour before the second fire started around 10 p.m., Van Wyk said. Paul Furrer, Creswell fire chief, said he'd just returned from the first fire when his crew had to turn around and go back. No one knew for sure Wednesday night what caused the first fire but it may have been an arc from the BPA power line that runs alongside the Wood Recovery and Cone properties, Van Wyk said. "BPA didn't keep the brush down Verb 1. brush down - reprimand; "She told the misbehaving student off" tell off call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, bawl out, berate, rebuke, reproof, scold, take to task, call down, lambast, lambaste, lecture, reprimand, adequately under their lines," he said. "I think what happened was that (embers em·ber n. 1. A small, glowing piece of coal or wood, as in a dying fire. 2. embers The smoldering coal or ash of a dying fire. ) from the earlier brush fire must have jumped to a tree ... and jumped onto our property." He said he couldn't estimate how much damage the fire had caused and didn't know if it would be covered by insurance. CAPTION(S): Goshen firefighters pour water on a blaze late Wednesday in piles of logs waiting to be chipped at the Wood Recovery plant near Goshen. |
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