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Bayles:BillBayles,75,of Red Bluff died Sunday, April 27 at Emeritus at Lassen House. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, May 1 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Moore: Robert Russell Moore, 89, of Red Bluff diedSunday,April27,athis home. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Thursday, May 1intheDaily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Moore: Waneta Eliza- beth Moore, 89, of Red Bluff died Sunday, April 27, at her home. Arrange- ments are under the direc- tion of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, May 1intheDaily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Pruitt: Robert Pruitt, 78, of Red Bluff died Sat- urday, April 26, at Red Bluff Healthcare Center. Arrangements are un- der the direction of Hoyt- ColeChapeloftheFlowers. Thursday, May 1, 2014 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Wagoner: Kenneth R. 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"The 'dozers don't get tired, but the crews do," said Aaron Latta, a safety officer who has been with Cal Fire for about 15 years, as he rumbled along a steep and curvy path in a pickup truck to drop off heavy fire equipment operator Mike Pi - nochi out of Placerville. Latta and Pinochi, who has been with Cal Fire for about seven years, said the training is still valuable. "To actually get out, un - load the dozers, let them scrape the dirt and push is really a unique feature," Latta said. Pinochi added: "You don't want to be trying to figure it out when you're chasing fire. You want it to be muscle memory, so we're not think - ing about what we're doing, just how to do it." That familiarity with a bulldozer, and the train - ing, also helps decrease the chance of accidents in the field in an inherently dan- gerous job, said Mike Glenn, a heavy fire equipment op- erator who was overlooking a few bulldozer operators who were cutting and wid- ening lines on the side of a brushy hill. "We don't want acci- dents," said Glenn, who has been with Cal Fire for about 10 years. "We've had a few in the past eight years, and I hate to say it, it's going to happen just because of the job, but we try to eliminate as much as those as we can." He added, "The only way (operators) can learn how steep they can go and get back out is by experience, by doing it." Train FrOm Page 1 their prisons added inmates. Dublin and Irvine added thousands of residents last year through more tradi- tional means with new hous- ing developments. Irvine had the fourth-biggest increase in residents with 11,000 new people, despite being Califor - nia's fifteenth-biggest city. Despite the overall growth, rural counties such as Amador, Calaveras and Plumas, generally lost pop- ulation. The state estimated pop- ulations using date on hous- ing occupancy, drivers' li- cense and other government records Daily News reporter Rich Greene contributed to this re - port. Growth 2012. Tehama County received a "C" when it comes to high particle pollution days re - ported in the same time pe- riod. The report finds of Te- hama County's 63,406 pop- ulation 1,364 have pediatric asthma, 4,280 suffer from adult asthma and 2,502 have Chronic Obstructive Pulmo - nary Disease. Another 3,830 residents suffer from cardiovascular disease and 5,350 have di - abetes. Tehama wasn't the only California county to score poorly in some sections of the report. California's Central Valley and Los Angeles dominated the annual rankings of the nation's worst air pollution. Fresno, Visalia and Ba - kersfield rank 1, 2 and 3 in the country for short-term spikes in fine-particle pol- lution in the 15th annual re- port, meaning their resi- dents inhale soot and other tiny pollution specks at un- matched levels. It is the first time the Fresno-Madera area earned the distinction that Bakersfield had last year. Los Angeles was fourth behind the three Central Valley cities in that cate - gory, but it's still on top in another — violating federal standards for ozone in the air 122 days a year. The analysis doesn't in - clude 2013, whose drought will likely bring a spike and still more dreary numbers next year. The Associated Press contrib - uted to this report. Air FrOm Page 1 Lung Association report:Readthefullreportonline: LuNg.oRg/CALiFoRNiA staff reports red bluFF Candidates running for local, state and congressional posi- tions took questions and made statements Tuesday night at Veterans Memorial Hall here ahead of the June 3 ballot, but the event ran past the Daily News' print deadline. Below is a recap from the races that didn't make it in Wednesday's print edition. TehamaCounty District 4 supervisor Susan Price listed as a priority expanding on- line access to public docu- ments and other steps to- ward increasing transpar- ency in county government. She touted her experience as both an elected official on the Corning City Coun - cil and a hired manager as the Red Bluff city man- ager. She said this unique perspective gives her a full knowledge of local gover- nance. Incumbent Bob Williams praised his fellow supervi- sors for the accomplish- ments they have made to- gether. He stressed that his public service dates back to 1981 and includes service to a variety of boards and dis - tricts, including the school board. A fifth generation Tehama County farmer, he said his reasons for run - ning are selfish because he wants to better the fu- ture of Tehama County for his children and grandchil- dren. District Attorney Gregg Cohen said the only reason he wanted to become a lawyer was to serve as a prosecutor. Serv - ing as Tehama County Dis- trict Attorney since 1999, Cohen pointed to his 15 years of budget manage- ment experience. In or- der to deal with the effects of AB-109, the prison re- alignment bill that has sent thousands of state prison- ers back to counties, he said he would lobby to re- instate two positions that were cut from his office in recent years. Speaking further on AB- 109, Cohen said it has been disastrous for the North State, but it is here to stay. Dealing with AB-109 means creating more space to house inmates, but he said his preference would be a work farm where inmates could work their way back to freedom. At the same time, he said he would maintain consequences for wrongdoers and the most beneficial way to do so is to utilize inmate labor to bet - ter the community. Tehama County Deputy District Attorney Larry Ol- sen said his background as a police officer and civil at- torney prior to becoming a prosecutor equips him to work closely and more eas- ily with police and sheriff's departments. Asked about budget experience, he said he managed budgets for four offices when he was in private practice so he is well equipped to manage the budget of one office. Olsen called AB-109 aw - ful -- the worst thing that has happened to Tehama County and other small counties. At the same time he said the county must work with AB-109 rather than around it. He said the county needs a change in order to deal with the ef - fects of AB-109 and his abil- ity to work seamlessly with police and sheriff's depart- ments is what's needed. Clerk and recorder Jennifer Vise said she has served with the Clerk and Recorder's Office since 2004 and helped manage budgets at the office since 2008, pointing out that the office's budget is directly overseen by the board of supervisors. Her goals in - clude continuing to mod- ernize the office with state- of-the-art voting and ar- chiving systems. Tim Morehouse, since coming to Tehama County 12 years ago, has been deeply involved in edu - cation. He said he is run- ning to give residents of the county the opportunity to have a choice in leader- ship at the Clerk and Re- corder's office. He said the job is an elected position to ensure that the person holding it is accountable to residents. In addition to budget management expe - rience on boards, he said he has 10 years of experience managing the expansion of a retail chain throughout the North State. June 3 electiOn DA, clerk candidates face public in forum The Associated Press redding A Northern Cal- ifornia district attorney's office is stepping up secu- rity after someone threw a Molotov cocktail through a window. The Record Search - light of Redding reports that firefighters and po- lice responded around 3 a.m. Tuesday to the Shasta County District Attorney's Office in Redding. Some - one had apparently broken a window and thrown a Mo- lotov cocktail inside. Redding fire investiga- tor Craig Wittner says the ensuing fire was put out by an automatic sprinkler sys- tem. He estimated the dam- age to the office at $15,000 and said there could been injuries if somebody had been there at the time. Assistant District At - torney Josh Lowery said he was not aware of any recent threats. He said the office had implemented in - ternal security precau- tions, though he would not say what they were. Information from: Record Searchlight, http://redding. com State prosecutor's office firebombed shasta cOunty by maria danilova The Associated Press hOrliVKa, uKraine Ukraine's acting presi- dent conceded Wednesday that his police and secu- rity forces were "helpless" to stifle unrest in the coun- try's east, where pro-Russia gunmen seized more build- ings, walking into the police station and mayor's office in this mining hub without re- sistance. Insurgents also took con- trol of the customs service building in Donetsk, the re- gion's main city, and city hall in Alchevsk, an industrial center of about 110,000, add- ing to the scores of buildings taken by the separatists over the past month in the east, where a dozen cities are now in the hands of the separat - ists. Acting President Olek- sandr Turchynov has twice proclaimed "anti-terrorist" operations to regain con- trol of the east, but to little effect. In a meeting with of- ficials from other Ukrainian regions, he acknowledged the failure and indicated the government would back off even trying to bring the most restive parts of the east to heel, focusing instead on try - ing to keep the unrest from spreading to other parts of the nation of 46 million. "I will be frank: Today, security forces are unable to quickly take the situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions under control," Tur - chynov said. "The security bodies ... are unable to carry out their duties of protecting citizens. They are helpless in those matters." "Moreover, some of those units are either helping or cooperating with terrorist organizations," he said. Hours after Turchynov spoke, authorities in the capital, Kiev, announced se - curity forces would hold ex- ercises overnight. The ma- neuvers could be aimed at reassuring Ukrainians that the government was not ca- pitulating. But they are also likely to be seen as an ag- gressive move by the east- ern insurgents, who claim the government is a national- ist cabal intent on suppress- ing the east's large Russian- speaking population. Turchynov's govern- ment, which came to power after Russia-friendly pres- ident Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in the wake of monthslong protests, and its supporters in the West have accused Moscow of orches - trating the turmoil in east- ern Ukraine, which borders Russia. The United States and the European Union rolled out new economic sanctions against Russia this week, but Moscow has remained unbowed, denying its role in the unrest. On Wednesday, Tur - chynov said "mercenaries and special units" were at- tacking eastern Ukraine. "That is why I am stress- ing our task is to stop the spreadoftheterroristthreat, first of all in the Kharkiv and Odessa regions," Turchynov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. Kharkiv is in eastern Ukraine, north of the Do - netsk and Luhansk regions that are the heart of the insurgency; Odessa is on the Black Sea coast, about 120 miles (200 kilometers) west of the Crimea penin - sula, which Russia annexed in March after its troops backed separatist self-de- fense forces. The mayor of Kharkiv, who had been credited with keeping Ukraine's second- largest city calm, was shot in the back while jogging ear - lier this week. Turchynov said the threat of a Russian invasion was real and urged the creation of regional self-defense units throughout the country. Rus - sia has placed tens of thou- sands of troops near the bor- der with Ukraine. Some Ukrainians were appalled by the loss of con- trol over the country's east- ern regions and accused the central government of react- ing too slowly. "In a normal society, when Oleksandr Turchynov ad- mits the fact that the au- thorities do not control the situation in the east of the country, that's grounds for resignation. And not just from him, but all the security forces," Valeriy Kalnysh, the former editor of the now-de - funct Kommersant Ukraine daily, wrote on Facebook. "But can we afford this now? .... And is it the right move in the conditions of an unde - clared war with Russia?" Former prime minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko urged Ukrainians to join a resis - tance force that she was cre- ating that would act in coor- dination with the army. "Ukraine is under attack. Russia has begun an unde- clared war against our coun- try in the east," Tymoshenko said in a statement Wednes- day. "I call upon all patriots who have ever participated in military operations to join us immediately. Ukraine is holding a pres - idential election on May 25, and Tymoshenko is among several top candidates. IneasternUkraine,mean - while, insurgents wielding automatic weapons hoisted an insurgent flag above the city council building in Hor - livka, a mining and chemi- cal industry hub in the Do- netsk region. They also took control of a police station in the city of 250,000, adding to another police building they have controlled for several weeks. Armed men were guard - ing the city council building and checking the documents of all those entering it. eastern eurOPe Kiev: Forces 'helpless' to restore order in east SeRgei Chuzavkov — The aSSoCiaTed PReSS With their faces covered and carrying burning torches, ukrainian nationalists attempt to march to kiev's independence Square on Tuesday to honor the so called heavenly hundred, the protesters who were killed in clashes with police in February 2014, in kiev, ukraine. The Associated Press san FranciscO Califor- nia transportation officials have found a relatively inex- pensive treatment meant to prevent hundreds of bolts and rods on the new east- ern span of the San Fran- cisco-Oakland Bay Bridge from cracking. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the new fix is a so-called "grease cap" that was in - stalled on 192 rods used to fasten seismic safety equip- ment. The $189,000 fix comes after 32 of the rods snapped last year after being tight - ened. bridge Caltrans installs 'grease cap' for Bay Bridge rods ThuRSday, May 1, 2014 RedBLuFFdaiLyNeWS.CoM |NEWS | 7 a