Everyone within a two-mile radius of the site was NOT evacuated! 100’s of folks live less than 2 miles away in Oregon. Just across the Columbia River. In Oregon the attitude appeared to be: “Not my problem.” “Shrug.” One Oregon resident called the Umatilla, Oregon County, they were reluctant to discuss the issue of evacuating the Oregon side of the river.
Everyone within a two-mile radius of the site was NOT evacuated! 100’s of folks live less than 2 miles away in Oregon. Just across the Columbia River. In Oregon the attitude appeared to be: “Not my problem.” “Shrug.” One Oregon resident called the Umatilla, Oregon County, they were reluctant to discuss the issue of evacuating the Oregon side of the river.