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Tuesday, December 24, 2013 – Daily News Death Notices Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. 7A Trailer fire contained in north RB Clinton Davis Clinton Davis, of Corning, died at Oak River Rehab in Anderson on Friday, Dec. 20. He was 84. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Lenard Glen Gleesing Lenard Glen Gleesing died at his Corning home Thursday, Dec. 19. He was 75. Arrangements are under the direction of Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary. Published Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. George Dorr Keen George Dorr Keen, of Corning, died at Enloe Medical in Chico on Tuesday, Dec. 17. He was 93. Arrangements are under the direction of Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary. Published Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Donald W. Keys Courtesy photo by Ross Palubeski Donald W. Keys, of Red Bluff, died at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital on Sunday, Dec. 22. He was 80. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. PATH Continued from page 1A what to do next. Other PATH programs have continued to prove successful, the group reports. Ross said during the recent stretch of extremely cold weather around 25 individuals stayed at PATH's rotating homeless shelter. He said despite the churches that offer space, donations are always needed for the program. "People are sleeping on cots right now with blankets," Ross said. "There's no mattresses or anything like that — it's just bare necessities. Ross said most of the people staying at the shel- HEALTH Continued from page 1A November. The need to provide consumers some wiggle room became evident as Monday wore on, with complaints surfacing from people who were attempting to sign up for an insurance plan but were unable to do so. Gene Nelson, an adjunct professor in the biomedical engineering department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, had been frustrated in his attempts to apply through the website and through Covered Califor- CalFire, Tehama County Fire Department and a St. Elizabeth ambulance were dispatched around 9:50 p.m. Sunday to a reported structure fire at the end of Enz Court in north Red Bluff. The first unit at scene reported a fully involved trailer on fire. The fire was contained in about 10 minutes. Units responded from Paynes Creek, Bowman, Dibble Creek, El Camino and Los Molinos. ter are from Tehama County. He said PATH sees very few people that come to the area for the shelter. As it continues to work for a permanent homeless shelter, the group is working on a transitional step of its own. Ross said the group would like to create a sort of day reporting center, where hot showers and nia's call centers. He faced a variety of challenges on the website, including stalls, time-outs and messages warning of invalid user names and passwords that left him unable to even create an account. When he contacted the call center for help, a recorded message told him to sign up through the website instead and then bounced him off the telephone call with a series of busy-signal beeps. He said he was not given the option to hold on the line for an available operator. ''It's impossible,'' he said. Nelson, who will be 62 in January, said he had been without health laundry access could be made available yearround. "We really do need some help," Derring said. "Even in our shelter program our payroll is a big expense and we're running out of funds for that too." Those wishing to donate to PATH can do so through the group's website — redbluffpath.org. insurance since 2009 and is trying to get coverage for him and his wife. He has not been called back to teach courses at Cal Poly and was not provided health insurance by the university even when he did teach last year. He was skeptical about Covered California's offer of a grace period for those who were unsuccessful in signing up for coverage Monday. ''But that's predicated upon, among other things, getting the first step done so that I can apply. But I can't get the first step done, so I don't think it would apply,'' he said. ''And I'm sure there will be a lot of people like me.'' 2nd opinion ordered for teen declared brain dead OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — With a family fighting a hospital to keep their braindead daughter on life support just days before Christmas, a California judge on Monday ordered a second medical evaluation for 13year-old Jahi McMath. Jahi experienced complications following a tonsillectomy at Children's Hospital in Oakland. As her family sat stonefaced in the front row of the courtroom, an Alameda County judge called for Jahi to be independently examined by Paul Graham Fisher, the chief of child neurology at Stanford University School of Medicine. The examination was expected to occur later on Monday. Hospital staff and Fisher will conduct an electroencephalogram, or EEG, and tests to see if blood is still flowing to Jahi's brain. Doctors at Children's Hospital concluded the girl was brain dead on Dec. 12 and wanted to remove her from life support. Jahi's family wants to keep her hooked up to a respirator, and eventually have her moved to another facility. The family said they believe she is still alive, and that the hospital should not remove her from the ventilator without their permission. ''It's wrong for someone who made mistakes on your child to just call the coroner ... and not respect the family's feeling or rights,'' Sandra Chatman, Jahi's grandmother, said in the hallway outside the courtroom. ''I know Jahi suffered and it tears me up.'' The family's attorney also asked Judge Evelio Grillo to allow a third evaluation by Paul Byrne, a pediatric professor at the University of Toledo. The hospital's attorney objected to Byrne, saying he is not a pediatric neurologist. The judge is expected to take up the request to use Setting it straight –––––––– It is the policy of the Daily News to correct as quickly as possible all errors in fact that have been published in the newspaper. If you feel a factual error has been made in a news story, call the news department at 527-2153. Simple Cremations starting at $ .00 929 5530 Mountain View Drive, Redding CA 96033. Call 530-241-3400 to prearrange your wishes • www.BlairsCremation.com FD2153 Byrne, and another hearing was scheduled for Tuesday morning, Christmas Eve. Jahi's family says the girl bled profusely after a tonsillectomy and then went into cardiac arrest before being declared brain dead. Outside the courtroom, Dr. David Durand, chief of pediatrics at Children's, said that staff have the ''deepest sympathy'' for the family, but that Jahi is brain dead. ''The ventilator cannot reverse the brain death that has occurred and it would be wrong to give false hope that Jahi will ever come back to life,'' he said. Durand said Jahi's surgery was ''very complex,'' not simply a tonsillectomy. ''It was much more complicated than a tonsillectomy,'' Durand said. He refused to elaborate, citing health care privacy laws. Arthur L. Caplan, who leads the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center and is not involved in Jahi's case, told the Associated Press that once brain death has been declared, a hospital is under no obligation to keep a patient on a ventilator. ''Brain death is death,'' he said, adding, ''They don't need permission from the family to take her off, but because the little girl died unexpectedly and so tragically, they're trying to soften the blow and let the family adjust to the reality.'' Often families confuse the state of brain death with a coma or a permanent vegetative, Caplan said, offering an analogy. ''A coma is like a television that has a picture with a lot of interference,'' he said. ''There's brain activity, but something's not right. A permanent vegetative state is when the screen is all snow. Brain death is when the set is unplugged. There is nothing on the screen.'' Keeping Jahi on a ventilator is also likely to cost thousands of dollars a day, he continued, and because she has been declared brain dead, is unlikely to be covered by health insurance. Christopher Dolan, the family's attorney, vowed to keep Jahi hooked to the ventilator through Christmas, saying he would file an appeal if the judge orders her removed from the machine on Tuesday. ''I am confident she'll live through Christmas,'' a visibly weary Dolan said after the hearing. Dolan said he is working the case for free after the family reached out for help a week earlier. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service Now Offering Eco-Friendly urns at economy friendly prices. 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 527-1732 $375K penalty returned to PG&E SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California regulators have refunded $375,000 to Pacific Gas and Electric Co. over concerns the fine payment could jeopardize a potentially larger penalty against the utility for the deadly San Bruno pipeline explosion, a newspaper reported. The Public Utilities Commission's safety enforcement division sent a letter to PG&E on Friday that withdrew the citation and included a check for $375,000, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in Monday's edition (http://bit.ly/1jBoDPU). The safety division imposed the fine earlier this month after an audit determined that PG&E for decades lacked a procedure to systematically monitor its gas pipelines. Attorneys and officials involved in the San Bruno case are still worried, though, that PG&E would use the $375,000 charge to challenge a potentially multi-billion dollar fine for the 2010 blast, according to the Chronicle. That's because both stem from many of the same gas system problems. San Bruno City Manager Connie Jackson said there was ''every reason'' to believe PG&E would cite the smaller fine to try to escape a bigger penalty. PG&E spokesman Greg Snapper declined to comment to the Chronicle. Harvey Morris, the lead attorney for the public utilities commission's San Bruno litigation team, also declined comment. The commission said in a statement on Friday that it was returning the money to prevent any confusion between the San Bruno case and what led to the $375,000 fine. PG&E is facing a potential $2.25 billion penalty for the San Bruno blast that includes required system upgrades and a $300 million fine. The blast killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. Investigators at the utilities commission blamed PG&E for the explosion, which occurred when an underground pipeline ruptured at the site of a decades-old faulty weld, sparking a massive fire. PG&E has accepted liability for the disaster in numerous public statements but has denied most of state investigators' allegations that it violated safety rules. Bullet ricochets off California deputy's knife FRESNO (AP) — Authorities say a Central California sheriff's deputy was saved from a gunshot wound by his pocket knife. The unidentified Fresno County deputy was responding to a call of shots fired on Sunday evening when a bullet flew toward him. Instead of hitting the deputy, Lt. Gregg Andreotti tells the Fresno Bee it ricocheted off the deputy's knife, leaving him with just a bruise. Sheriff's officials found weapons and ammunition in the backyard of a nearby home and detained several people for questioning. 4 missing cyclists found in California mountains PASADENA (AP) — Four mountain bikers missing overnight in the rugged and chilly San Gabriel Mountains were found safe and unharmed Monday. The men, all cousins ages 28 to 38, were spotted by Los Angeles County sheriff's searchers around 8:30 a.m. in a canyon in the Angeles National Forest and were reunited with relatives. ''We just took a wrong turn and we were basically completely lost in the middle of nowhere,'' biker Christopher McCarthy told KABC-TV after an emotional reunion with family members who had waited through the night. The men began their ride from Mount Wilson, a peak topping 5,700 feet northeast of Los Angeles, down to Pasadena at about 10 a.m. Sunday. But they failed to return by the planned time of 3 p.m., less than two hours before sunset.