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Frederick J. FISCHER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Daniel GRIFFITH, Correctional Officer; John Does 1-10, Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 12-35383.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Aug. 13, 2014.
    
    Filed Aug. 21, 2014.
    Frederick J. Fischer, Soledad, CA, pro se.
    Suzanne Liabraaten, Newell D. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Washington Attorney General, Seattle, WA, for Defendants-Appellees.
    Before: SCHROEDER, THOMAS, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Frederick J. Fischer, a Washington state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing for failure to exhaust administrative remedies his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging deliberate indifference to his safety. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo, Albino v. Baca, 747 F.3d 1162, 1171 (9th Cir.2014) (en banc), and we affirm.

The district court properly concluded that Fischer failed to exhaust administrative remedies because Fischer did not show that he had completed the prison’s grievance procedures or that administrative remedies were effectively unavailable to him. See Woodford v. Ngo, 548 U.S. 81, 90, 93-95, 126 S.Ct. 2378, 165 L.Ed.2d 368 (2006) (the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires “proper exhaustion,” which means completing the administrative review process in compliance with the applicable procedural rules, including deadlines); Albino, 747 F.3d at 1172 (setting forth respective burdens where defendant argues that prisoner failed to exhaust administrative remedies); Sapp v. Kimbrell, 623 F.3d 813, 822 (9th Cir.2010) (exhaustion' is not required where administrative remedies are rendered “effectively unavailable”). We do not consider matters not specifically and distinctly raised and argued in the opening brief. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n. 2 (9th Cir.2009) (per curiam).

AFFIRMED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.