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1. Two Bear Air Rescues Florida
Veteran from Idaho’s Highest Peak
For the second time in two weeks a climber has been rescued from Idaho’s highest peak.
The Custer County Sheri ’s O ce says retired Marine Col. Kenneth Lissner of Tampa, Florida, used an emergency satellite communications device to call for help at about 12:30 a.m. Aug. 10.
The 56-year-old combat veteran reported being halfway down the south side of 12,667-foot Borah Peak and hypothermic.
A helicopter from Kalispell operated by Two Bear Air Rescue located Lissner at about 6:15 a.m. and plucked him from the mountain.
Lissner was taken to the nearby town of Mackay to be treated for exposure.
Emergency crews on July 31 rescued a 57-year-old Idaho man after he slid 300 feet down an ice slope. He sustained minor injuries.
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2. Texas Kayaker Drowns in Flathead
Lake
A 53-year-old man from Texas drowned in Flathead Lake on Aug. 11, the Flathead County Sheri ’s O ce reported.
According to Sheri Chuck Curry, Musa Rashid of Sugarland, Texas was vacationing with his family members in Bigfork when people in the group, includ- ing Rashid, decided to kayak on the lake.
Rashid was initially wearing a life jacket, Curry reported, but took it o at some point. His kayak tipped about 100 yards from shore, but Rashid was unable to make it to shore despite trying.
Citizens responding to the calls for help recovered his body in about 12 feet of water, Curry said. Bigfork Ambulance attempted to revive Rashid on the way to Kalispell Regional Medical Center, but were unable to do so.
3. Hotshot Dies Battling Nevada
Wild re
Authorities say a Forest Service re- ghter has died after being hit by a tree while battling a wild re in Nevada.
Federal o cials say Justin Beebe, 26, of Vermont was killed when the tree fell on him Aug. 13 while his hotshot crew battled the blaze in the eastern part of the state.
O cials with the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and Great Basin National Park are expected to work on the investigation.
Beebe of Bellows Falls, Vermont, was in his rst year as a member of the Lolo Hotshots based in Missoula, Montana, one of the Forest Service’s elite crews who man the front lines of the most dan- gerous wildland blazes across the West.
He was working on a re that was sparked by lightning on Aug. 8. There are 434 people ghting the re, which is now 59 percent contained.
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4. County Reaches $120 Million
Settlement Agreement with Arco
A tentative agreement calls for the Atlantic Rich eld Co. to pay $120 million to Anaconda-Deer Lodge County over the next century to maintain properties where copper-smelting waste was capped in place as part of a Superfund cleanup.
BP, the parent company of Arco, issued a statement saying it believes the agree- ment will bene t the community and the environment.
Carl Nyman, the county’s superfund coordinator, said the deal “captures what the community wants to see.”
Arco is the responsible party for about 100 years of smelting activity. The Envi- ronmental Protection Agency named Anaconda a Superfund site in 1983.
About 130 people attended a pub- lic hearing last week to discuss the pro- posal, which also includes money to help improve the local economy, The Montana Standard reported.
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