According to OSP Lieutenant Pat Shortt, at approximately 8:25 a.m. Monday, March 16, Wasco County Sheriff's Deputies arrived at 1100 Mt. Hood St., in The Dalles, to serve civil papers on the resident living there. As deputies knocked on the door gunshots were heard from within and deputies fell back and requested additional police to respond. Officers arriving at the scene created a perimeter and attempted negotiations with the occupant. Shortly thereafter, smoke began to come from inside the residence.
At approximately 8:45 a.m., The Dalles City Police initiated a lockdown at Colonel Wright Elementary School as officers responded to a “barricaded subject near 10th and Mount Hood,” according to a press release from District 21. Saint Mary Academy was also placed on lockdown, the release stated.
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By 8:46 a.m., streets in a corridor around the house were closed to traffic by police and public works vehicles. Smoke could be seen exiting from a roof vent and above the door of the garage. Additional county, city and Oregon State police officers had arrived.
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At 8:53 a.m., Oregon State Police Lieutenant Pat Shortt strides 12th street toward the incident area and command center.
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At 8:58 a.m., police and fire personnel talk logistics. The fire continues to smolder inside the home.
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At 9:04 a.m., officers cover the house with weapons as negotiators speaking over a loud speaker continue to encourage the man inside the house to come out of the house, and assure that if he comes out with his hands up, and obeys the directions of the officers, he will not be hurt.
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At 9:05 a.m. a neighborhood cat crosses the street to hide under a Sheriff's patrol vehicle. Shortly thereafter, the photographer was asked to move behind the nearby command vehicle.
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At 10:42 a.m., the photographer is asked to move to yet another location as police cordon the area off with police tape.
At approximately 10:45 a.m., lockdown was lifted at Colonel Wright Elementary, according to a District 21 news release.
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Fire crews, which have been staged nearby, are moved into position at 11th and Mount Hood Streets. At 12:21, they are in position and waiting.
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At 12 31 p.m., brown smoke billows from the home and Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue Chief Bob Palmer, center, runs to where an armored car and robot from Salem are staging on 11th Street to tell them that the fire was about to erupt.
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The SWAT team immediately responds with an armored vehicle, approaching the house and using a loudspeaker to warn anyone inside to come out before entry was forced.
According to OSP Lieutenant Pat Shortt, members of the Oregon State Police SWAT team approached the residence but members were forced to back away.
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The SWAT team robot is moved out of the way. According to the Wasco County Sheriff's Office the robot was unable to assist.
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Fire crews from Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue battled the fire and were able to extinguish it. As fire crews worked through the structure a single fatality was discovered.
The Wasco County Sheriff's Office is the lead investigative agency on this incident and is being assisted by Arson Detectives from the Oregon State Police Arson Unit.
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