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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Latest on the standoff at a national wildlife refuge in Oregon (all times local): 9:25 p.m. Nevada state lawmaker Michele Fiore says she is driving to the wildlife refuge from Portland to help peacefully end a 40-day occupation launched to protest prison terms for two local ranchers and federal management of public lands. Over an open phone line livestreamed on the Internet, Fiore said she will arrive at the refuge near Burns, Oregon, by 1 a.m. She told the four remaining occupiers she has been in contact with the FBI and that they will not escalate the situation before she and Rev. Franklin Graham arrive. ___ 8 p.m. The last four occupiers of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon vacillated between hysteria and calm while assessing their options as the FBI attempted with a bullhorn to negotiate an end to the standoff that began weeks ago. The scene played out Wednesday night via an open phone line being livestreamed on the Internet by an acquaintance of one of the occupiers. At least three of the remaining holdouts at the refuge yelled over each other at times with conflicting ideas from surrendering "in the morning" to "going to their graves." As David Fry and Sean Anderson yelled back and forth with the FBI, Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore spoke to them and Sandy Anderson on a phone, telling them she could only help them if they stayed alive. The Rev. Franklin Graham apparently spoke to occupiers on another call as the occupiers occasionally prayed. Fiore, a Republican state Assembly member from Las Vegas, had already travelled to Oregon to meet with jailed group leader Ammon Bundy's attorney. ___ 6:50 p.m. The FBI says it has moved to contain the last few occupiers of an Oregon wildlife refuge who were part of a protest that began more than a month ago over federal land policy. Authorities said in a statement they placed agents at barricades both immediately ahead of and behind the area where the occupiers were camping outside the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. An acquaintance of occupier David Fry was livestreaming on YouTube what he said was an open phone line from the standoff. The occupiers said they were surrounded by armored vehicles. The four holdouts were the last remnants of an armed group that seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon on Jan. 2 to oppose federal land-use policies. They four refusing to leave are: 27-year-old David Fry, of Blanchester, Ohio; 46-year-old Jeff Banta, of Elko, Nevada; and married couple Sean Anderson, 48, and Sandy Anderson, 47, of Riggins, Idaho.

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