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THE HEAT IS ON

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Smoke and flames are seen over homes as the Dump Fire burns near Saratoga Springs on Friday.

8,000 evacuated, 4,000 acres burned; 30 percent contained

EAGLE MOUNTAIN DUMP FIRE

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Amber Jensen makes a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for her children, Whitney, left, Emily, and Kirsten (not pictured) at Westlake High School.

Inhale, or notDAILY HERALD

Dr. Joseph Miner, direc-tor of the Utah County Health Department said people should be concerned about smoke and haze in the air.

“The biggest problem is with the smoke. You should avoid the outdoors if you’re in a smoky area. Don’t use swamp coolers that bring air from the outside into your home,” Miner said. “People with asthma should have medication such as inhalers on hand.”

He also advised having emergency drinking water and food on hand.

“Emergency kits or 72-hour kits are helpful. It al-ways takes time to mobilize relief efforts,” Miner said.

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Jim DalrympleDAILY HERALD

C alm settled over the command center of a massive blaze Friday night as buses filled with fresh

fire crews arrived and pitched tents to await the morning battle.The crews were among the hundreds of people fighting the Dump Fire, which was sparked Thursday morning by target shooters and was 30 percent contained by 10 p.m. Friday. Reports on the size and devastation varied.

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Billy HestermanDAILY HERALD

The Dump fire is the latest in a string of wildfires caused by target shooting.

State officials have de-clared that firearms are re-sponsible for starting 20 fires so far this year in Utah. Tar-get shooters have ventured out into Utah’s public lands, and some of the shooters ig-nited fires that have burned hundreds of acres west of Utah Lake, including the still-burning Dump fire.

According to Sgt. Spencer Cannon with the Utah County Sheriff’s office, those found responsible for starting the fire can be charged for start-ing the fire if it is found they were acting in a reckless manner when the fire was ig-nited. Cannon said civil fines also could be imposed on the culprits to aid in recovering the cost of fighting the fire.

Last week, target shoot-ers using explosive targets started a fire that burned about 200 acres; they were cited for using illegal targets. Two other fires have been attributed to target shooting in the last month in about the same area.

While target shooters are carrying the brunt of the blame for the scorched mountainside areas and mas-sive clouds of smoke that are hovering over Utah County, one firearms enthusiast is wondering if guns really are the cause of the fires this summer.

“I need to know more definitively what is to blame for these fires,” said Clark Aposhian, the head of Utah’s Shooting Sports Council.

Aposhian wasn’t denying that the Dump fire, and other fires, could have been started by irresponsible target shoot-ers but he wants to see more evidence before he feels the blame being placed on gun owners is justified.

“We won’t be apologists for improper behavior in any-way,” Aposhian said.

Aposhian said the shooting council plans to do their own tests in the coming weeks to investigate which forms of ammunition can actually cre-ate large enough sparks to start a fire. Once those results are in, he said the council then will inform its mem-

bers on how to use their gun safely in the dry conditions that the state is facing this summer.

State and federal agencies with jurisdiction over the public lands have already put a ban in place on tracer type ammunition in their respective lands. A state law passed in 2008, sponsored by Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Eagle Mountain, and former Rep. Carl Wimmer prohibits any government entity in the state from restricting the use of firearms in the state during a declared emergency, mean-ing the state cannot restrict gun use even while the fire burns.

Utah County commission-ers in their weekly govern-ing meeting on last Tuesday expressed their frustration with irresponsible target shooters who use the area west of Utah Lake for their recreation. Commissioner Gary Anderson noted that he himself is a target shooter but does so responsibly. He hoped that the small minority that are being irresponsible will see the cause of their actions and use better judgement the next time they head out to shoot. The county commis-sion has no jurisdiction over the area in the western part of the county as the land is mainly federally owned land.

Commissioner Larry El-lertson, who was at the fire Friday afternoon, said now is not the time to be target shooting, even if it is allowed.

“We have the right, but we also have responsibility,” he said.

This was the most serious fire he’d been involved in dur-ing his eight years as a com-missioner.

Shooters questioning who to blame for fires

EAGLE MOUNTAIN DUMP FIRE

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Cars wait in a line to evacuate the Saratoga Hills neighborhood of Saratoga Springs on Friday.

“I need to know more definitively

what is to blame for these fires. We won’t

be apologists for improper behavior in

any way.”Clark AposhianUtah’s Shooting Sports Council


Adam Johnston, with two of his children, Bridget, 11, and Luke, 13, prepare to evacuate their home in the Saratoga Springs neighborhood of Saratoga Hills.


A helicopter lands in a field to fill its water basket from an irrigation trench while fighting the Dump Fire near Saratoga Springs.

JIM MCAULEY/Daily Herald

Nicole Bawden and her children, including 11-month-old Orion, evacuated their home and arrived at the Westlake High School shelter at noon on Friday.

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MONDAY CLOSE-UP

Modern-day milkman: Glass half full

Sen. Hatch may have weathered GOP storm

MondayJUNE 25, 2012


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Before most residents of Utah County have gotten out of bed, before they have eat-en breakfast, gotten dressed and headed out the door for work, Kris Pyne is in an all-out sprint to finish his work-day. As the sky turns from deep black to pale blue, Pyne runs back and forth from his truck to the doorsteps of the homes on his delivery route. Even on his 150th stop, his pace remains the same.

“You can’t be laid back and just take your time,” Pyne said. “You’ve got to

run if you want to meet your quota.”

Coming to a stop outside a quiet home in Lehi, Pyne

jumps into the back of the truck, gathers several bottles of milk and a variety of other products into a plastic

crate, leaps out of the truck and runs full tilt to the door. Retrieving the used milk containers, Pyne places the new product in a cooler and runs back to the truck. Veteran drivers repeat this process more than 200 times in a shift. It’s all in a night’s work for a Winder Farms milkman.

Based in West Valley, Winder Farms has been home-delivering milk since 1880. While the basic concept remains the same, today’s milkmen are barely remi-niscent of those of the past. Gone are the white uniforms, the casual stroll down the street, greeting customers

Robert BurnsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The White House on Sunday congratulated Egypt’s president-elect, Mohammed Morsi, and urged him to reach out to all parties and segments of soci-ety as he forms a new government.

Striking a cautious but hopeful tone, a statement by White House press secretary Jay Carney called the election result a milestone in Egypt’s transition to democracy and said Washington looks for-ward to working with Morsi’s government “on the basis of mutual respect.”

“Millions of Egyptians voted in the election, and President-elect Morsi and the new Egyptian gov-ernment have both the legitimacy and responsibility of representing a diverse and courageous citizenry,” Carney said.

In the turbulent aftermath of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in February 2011, the U.S. is eager to salvage an alliance with Egypt that has been a foundation

Dump Fire close to containment, Wood Hollow fire out of control

Kevin Freking and Paul FoyTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SALT LAKE CITY — It was an entertaining exchange, as one-man debates go.

Dan Liljenquist, hoping to shock the political world on Tuesday, didn’t let Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch’s absence this month stop him. The GOP challenger opened his show with the usual call for new leadership in Washington, took questions from a pretend moderator and used a video recording of old Hatch in-terviews and speeches to pro-vide the incum-bent’s response.

Hatch had his own play for the cameras the next afternoon. He met Republi-can presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the Salt Lake City airport and walked with him to an awaiting car as TV stations got the shot.

If there’s one political endorse-ment that matters in Utah, it’s Rom-ney’s. He graduated from Brigham Young University, oversaw the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and carried more than 90 percent of the vote in the state’s

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President declared in Egypt, U.S. hopeful

Billy HestermanDAILY HERALD

While firefighters marched closer to fully containing the blaze that has burned over 6,000 acres on the west-

ern edge of Utah County, another fire erupted Sunday afternoon in Sanpete County that forced the closure of Highway 89 and caused more than 500 homes to be evacuated.

The Sanpete fire, known as the Wood Hollow fire, started Saturday afternoon but took an aggressive turn on Sunday as the fire grew to burn more than 9,800 acres and was listed by fire officials as being only 4

percent contained.“This is not good,” stated Rep. Ja-

son Chaffetz, R-Utah, in a phone in-terview with the Daily Herald as he watched the fire from Indianola. “It seems after talking to fire experts at both fires that they are all comment-ing this seems worse than what hap-pened at Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain.”

While firefighters were able to avoid any homes from being af-fected in the Utah County blaze, Chaffetz posted on his Twitter ac-count Sunday night that he could see one Sanpete home already on fire and that there were more homes nearby that could be threatened by

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“People around here

really support Hatch, but they were

discouraged by some of his votes.”Joni Crane

GOP chairwoman for Uintah County Photos by SPENSER HEAPS/Daily Herald

The Wood Hollow fire burns out of control near Fairview on Sunday. The fire, which started Saturday afternoon, had burned nearly 10,000 acres as of Sunday evening and forced the evacuation of several communities near Indianola and Fountain Green.

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Officer Glenn Begay of the Utah Highway Patrol instructs motorists on how they can detour around Highway 89, as it is closed due to the Wood Hollow fire, in Fairview on Sunday.

TV executives are look-ing to cash in on millions of viewers’ loyal love of Spanish-language tele-novelas by adopting them into English-language versions. Page B8

Networks want more soaps

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Kris Pyne, a milkman for Winder Farms, runs to his truck with empty bottle returns on his Lehi route Friday morning.

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LIFE & STYLEROMNEY AND MORMONISM Springville falls to Spanish Fork 28-14 | SPORTS

FRIDAY FOOTBALL


Colleen Long and Tom Hays

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — A laid-off clothing designer fatally shot an executive at his former company outside the Empire State Building on Friday, setting off a chaotic showdown with police in front of one of the world’s best-known landmarks. Officers killed the gunman and at least nine others were wounded, some by stray po-lice gunfire, authorities said.

The gunshots rang out on the Fifth Avenue side of the building at around 9 a.m., when pedestri-ans on their way to work packed sidewalks and merchants were opening their shops.

“People were yelling ‘Get down! Get down!”’ said Marc Engel, an accountant who was on a bus in the area when he heard the shots. “It took about 15 seconds, a lot of pop, pop, pop, pop, one shot after the other.”

Afterward, he saw the side-walks littered with the wounded, including one person “dripping enough blood to leave a stream.”

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Pl. Grove doctor charged with murderJim Dalrymple

DAILY HERALD

PROVO — On April 11, 2007, 6-year-old Ada MacNeill walked into a bathroom and found her mother Michele dead in a tub of reddish-brown water. Nearly five and a half years later, pros-ecutors charged Ada’s father Martin with murder for the incident.

Prosecutors filed charges Friday against Martin MacNeill, 56. The former Pleasant Grove doctor now faces one count of murder, a first-degree felony, and one count of obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony. MacNeill also was formerly a clinical director of the Utah State Developmental Center in American Fork.

Prosecutor Chad Grunander

confirmed Friday afternoon that the charges had been filed. A news release from the Utah County Attorney’s Office adds that MacNeill was arrested Fri-day by officials from the Utah County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Marshals Service. MacNeill was booked into jail on $1 mil-lion cash-only bail.

According to documents filed Friday in Provo’s 4th District

court, the charges stem from al-legations that MacNeill killed his wife shortly after she had plastic surgery. The procedure took place just a week before Michele died, and MacNeill reportedly “used the surgery and recovery period to obtain the necessary drugs and set in motion the circumstances to intentionally

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Michelle MacNeill died in 2007 shortly after undergoing plastic surgery.

Photo courtesy

Rachel MacNeill

Paul EliasTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN JOSE, Calif. — After a year of scorched-earth litigation, a jury decided Friday that Samsung ripped off the inno-vative technology used by Apple to cre-ate its revolutionary iPhone and iPad.

The jury ordered Samsung to pay Ap-ple $1.05 billion. An appeal is expected.

Apple Inc. filed its patent infringe-ment lawsuit in April 2011 and engaged legions of the country’s highest-paid pat-ent lawyers to demand $2.5 billion from its top smartphone competitor. Sam-sung Electronics Co. fired back with its own lawsuit seeking $399 million.

During closing arguments, Apple attorney Harold McElhinny claimed

Samsung was having a “crisis of design” after the 2007 launch of the iPhone, and executives with the South Korean com-pany were determined to illegally cash in on the success of the revolutionary device.

Samsung’s lawyers countered that it was simply and legally giving con-sumers what they want: Smart phones with big screens. They said Samsung didn’t violate any of Apple’s patents and further alleged innovations claimed by Apple were actually created by other companies.

Samsung has emerged as one of Apple’s biggest rivals and has overtaken Apple as the leading smartphone maker.

Verdict reached in Apple case: Samsung to pay $1.05 billion

2 dead, 9 injured outside Empire State Building

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Photos by MARK JOHNSTON/Daily Herald

Firefighters pull back as a portion of a wildfire picks up heat on the foothills above Provo just north of Rock Canyon Friday.

MARK LENNIHAN/Associated Press

Police crime scene tape blocks 34th St. at Fifth Avenue after a multiple shooting outside the Empire State Building, Friday.

Jim DalrympleDAILY HERALD

PROVO — Emily Covey was playing with her son just above Rock Canyon Park on Friday when she heard a pop. Covey said she immediately looked at the nearby mountain and saw two teenage boys run-ning away. Seconds later, 15-foot flames leapt into the air.

“It was really scary,” Covey said. “I was just shaking and I had my 2-year-old son

and I was trying to keep him close by and I was trying to talk to the operator.”

Covey added that she called 911 and police ar-rived just in time to catch the two boys.

Fire officials confirmed Friday night that blaze was started at 4:04 p.m. by two juveniles playing with fire-works. The fire burned up to 50 acres on

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Witness: Fireworks sparked fire near Rock CanyonA plane drops water over a fire burning on the foothills above Provo just north of Rock Canyon Friday.

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