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White:JaneWhite,96,of Red Bluff died Thursday, Aug. 20 at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Califor- nia. Deathnoticesmustbe 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. Deathnotices "In this fourth year of severe drought, the con- ditions in the river call for us to take extraordi- nary measures to reduce the potential for a large- scale fish die-off," Mid- Pacific Regional Direc- tor David Murillo said in a statement. "This decision was made af- ter discussions with fed- eral and state fish regu- latory agencies and seri- ous consideration of the imwpacts on all affected parties." There was no immedi- ate word from Westlands Water District in Central California, the state's largest irrigation district, whether it would again go to court to try to stop the releases. But Thomas Schlosser, attorney for the Hoopa tribe, said he was notified by the dis- trict's attorney, Dan- iel J. O'Hanlon, that he would seek an injunction. O'Hanlon did not imme- diately return a phone call and email seeking comment. Last year, a federal judge denied the injunction sought by ir- rigators. The releases were sought by the Hoopa Valley and Yurok tribes and Humboldt County to stave off an outbreak of a gill-rotting disease known as Ich — short for Ichthyophthirius multifi- liis — that spreads in low and warm water condi- tions. The cooler and ris- ing water spurs salmon to swim upstream to spawn. The releases are designed to triple flows at the riv- er's mouth. High levels of the para- site have been seen in fish since July, and the bulk of the fall chinook run is ex- pected to move into the river soon. "The community is grateful. This is a pre- ventative measure," said Mike Orcutt, director of fisheries for the Hoopa tribe. In the 2001 drought, the bureau had to shut off water to a federal ir- rigation district strad- dling the Oregon-Cali- fornia border to leave wa- ter for threatened coho salmon in the Klamath. When the Bush admin- istration restored irri- gation in 2002, caus- ing river flows to dimin- ish, an estimated 60,000 adult salmon died in the lower river from para- sites that spread best in low and warm water con- ditions, infesting the gills and smothering the fish. When Klamath returns are low, sport and com- mercial salmon catches in the Pacific are cut to ensure enough fish sur- vive to spawn. Salmon FROM PAGE 1 A scientific expert who evaluated the marijuana cultivation site noted ex- tensive resource damage at the site. The expert noted that chemical pesticides at the site included Carbofu- ran, a highly toxic chemi- cal that is extremely dan- gerous to humans and to aquatic and terrestrial life, and which is banned in the United States. Thiscaseistheproductof an investigation by the U.S. Forest Service, the North State Marijuana Investiga- tion Team, the Bureau of Land Management and the TehamaCountySheriff'sOf- fice. Assistant US Attorney Christiaan Highsmith is prosecuting the case. If convicted, Gonzalez- Alvizo and Arriaga-Ar- riaga face a maximum stat- utory penalty of 20 years in prison and a $10 million fine on the conspiracy and manufacture of marijuana charges. They face a max- imum statutory penalty of life and a $250,000 fine on the possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug traffickingcharge.Andthey face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on the depredation of public lands and resources charge. Any sentence would be determined at the discre- tion of the court after con- sideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guide- lines, which take into ac- count a number of vari- ables. The charges are only allegations; the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Pot FROM PAGE 1 By Matt Volz and Brian Skoloff The Associated Press TWISP, WASH. One was a college student for whom fighting fires was a sum- mer job. Another had grad- uated and wanted to make firefighting his career. The third was already a profes- sional firefighter who had gone back to school to earn his master's degree. Tom Zbyszewski, Richard Wheeler and Andrew Zajac — the three men who died Wednesday when flames consumed their crashed ve- hicle in Washington state — were typical of the wildland firefighters who start out as fresh-faced college kids making as little as $12 an hour then find themselves hooked on the work. Four others were injured in the canyon, one criti- cally. But their firefighting brothers and sisters had lit- tle time to mourn as raging fires forced entire commu- nities to flee their homes 60 miles away. The complex of fires grew more than 100 square miles in a single day, creating a situation too chaotic to even track how many homes had burned. "We have lost them, but I don't know how many," Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers said. "We've got no idea." As conditions worsened, emergency officials ordered evacuations in Okanogan, with 2,500 residents, as well as Tonasket, a commu- nity of 1,000 people, and its surrounding area. Not everyone who was told to leave was willing to go. "I've been up for like 40 hours, and I was very ner- vous, very concerned be- cause (the fire) was going to take everything we have, us and the rest of our friends," said Al Dodson, who stayed home despite evacuation or- ders in Twisp, 40 miles west of Okanogan. Nearly 29,000 firefighters — 3,000 of them in Wash- ington — are battling some 100 large blazes across the drought-and heat-stricken West, including Idaho, Or- egon, Montana and Califor- nia. Thirteen people have died. There are more firefight- ers on the ground this sea- son than ever before, and the U.S. government is spending more than $150 million a week on fire sup- pression, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Tidwell said. It's not enough. Addi- tional personnel and equip- ment were being brought in from abroad, and Wash- ington state officials have called for volunteers to help fight the flames. In addition, President Barack Obama signed an emergency declaration au- thorizing federal help for 11 Washington counties and four Native American tribes. Some of the firefighters on the ground are following a family tradition, emulat- ing their parents or a favor- ite uncle. Many are college students who need money, find they like the work, and eventually become leaders on fire crews, said Joe Smil- lie, a spokesman for Wash- ington's Department of Nat- ural Resources. "It's a lot of people who love the place, who love protecting it, and it's a great way to spend the summer," Smillie said. "It gets passed down almost as a summer tradition in a lot of families. Around the camps, you see a lot of chil- dren and grandchildren of some of our older firefight- ers." The wages are often about $12 to $18 an hour, and with long days, the pay can add up, he said. The three firefighters who died were based in Okanogan-Wenatchee Na- tional Forest, said forest spokeswoman Carrie Mc- Causland. They belonged to specialized crews that immediately assess fire scenes and report back to commanders. Wheeler, 31, the oldest of the three, started fighting fires to save money for col- lege then realized he could dedicate his life to some- thing that had meaning, said the Rev. Joanne Cole- man Campbell, his pastor at Wenatchee First United Methodist Church. "He fell in love with that and decided he wanted to make it his career," Cole- man Campbell said. This was Wheeler and his wife Celeste's second year living in Wenatchee after he graduated in 2013 from Michigan's Grand Valley State University. He was a seasonal worker with hopes of becoming a permanent wildland firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service. He had been fighting fires for a decade. His father, who died when Wheeler was 2, was a firefighter, too. Zbyszewski also followed in his father's footsteps. He was the youngest of the three who died, a 20-year- old physics major at Whit- man College with an acting bent. He was due to return to school next week. "I fought fires for years and years and years — I never even got burned. I wish it was me. I'm an old man," his father Richard Zbyszewski said, sobbing. Zajac, 26, was the son of a Methodist minister from Downers Grove, Illinois. He was a professional wild- land firefighter for the For- est Service and received a master's degree from the University of South Dakota last year, according to the Spokesman-Review. Zajac was a football player in college and he previously worked as a fire- fighter in New Mexico, the newspaper reported. A message left at the Rev. Mary Zajac's Baker Me- morial United Methodist Church was not immedi- ately returned. The church posted a message for the congregation on its Face- book page. "We grieve the loss of Pastor Mary and Jim Zajac's son, Andrew, while fight- ing wildfires in the state of Washington. We have no additional information at this time. Please keep them in your hearts and prayers," the message said. The most badly hurt among the survivors Wednesday was Daniel Lyon, 25, a reserve police officer in Milton, who suf- fered burns over 60 percent of his body and was in crit- ical condition at a Seattle hospital. Lyon's mother, Barbara Lyon, said her son loves the camaraderie of firefighters and police officers. It was his first summer on the fire lines. "He would call me every day and always tell me not to worry, things are fine," she said. "And I would say, 'Daniel, I pray for you every night, for all your safety, for you and the others.'" Volz reported from Helena, Montana. AP writers Nicholas K. Geranios in Spokane, Washington, and Gene Johnson in Seattle also contributed to this report. 3 DEAD Wa sh in gt on t ra ge dy h ig hl ig ht s firefighters' youth, passion ELAINE THOMPSON — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An American flag flies in a strong breeze at half-staff in honor of three firefighters killed days earlier near a sign thanking firefighters for their work Friday in Twisp, Wash. By Tami Abdollah The Associated Press LONEPINE The gas station's ground was covered with the small winged bugs. Piles of carcasses, inches deep, sat swept to the sides. On the road, they rained onto car windshields. They flewbythethousandstoward even the smallest sources of light, and crept along win- dows and kitchen tables. Such has been the skin- crawling reality for the past two months in the high-des- ert communities at the foot of the Sierra Nevada's east- ern slopes, where residents have seen an explosion of the black-and-red seed bug spe- cies Melacoryphus lateralis. "They're in everything. There's no way to get rid of them or eradicate them. They're just here," said Blair Nicodemus, 33, of Lone Pine, while driving with a bug creeping on his wind- shield. "Sometimes there will be these micro-plumes that'll come through where there will be just thousands of them, and they'll be all over you. ... I'm sure I've eaten at least two dozen, because they get into your food." Such outbreaks have hap- pened in Arizona's Sonoran desert near Tucson, but sci- entists say it's the first one they have record of in Cali- fornia. Theinfluxhasbeendriven by a mild winter and mon- soonal weather, which pro- videdhealthiervegetationfor the nutrient-sucking bugs, said David Haviland, an en- tomologist with the Univer- sity ofCalifornia Cooperative Extension in Kern County. The bugs' flight into town and toward the lights in homes, businesses or cars, however, might be related to the drying up of native vegetation in the summer heat and the drought, said Nathan Reade, agricultural commissioner for Inyo and Mono counties. To the north, a different type of bug is infesting the site of the popular Burning Man counterculture festival in Nevada's Black Rock Des- ert. State officials are work- ing to identify the green, coin-shaped insects swarm- ing the outdoor venue and biting workers setting up for thisyear'sevent,whichstarts Aug. 30. Entomologist Jeff Knight, with the Nevada Depart- ment of Agriculture, said the bugs aren't bloodsuck- ers and don't seem to pose a health risk. In California, the finger- nail-sized seed bugs are the main topic of conversation in the infested communities. A printout in a Lone Pine motel lobby warned people to keep their doors shut at night, and a hotel worker advised people to keep their car windows up if lights are on. A Dollar General Store in Inyokern limited its store hours after dark to avoid dealing with the bugs. HIGH-DESERT COMMUNIITIES 'They're in everything': Bug outbreak irks towns MARCELLAMARTINSON January 7, 1922 ~ August 16, 2015 Marcella Martinson passed away Sunday morning, Au- gust 16, 2015, at the age of 93. She passed peacefully at Brookdale Senior Care Home in Red Bluff after living a very long and full life. Marcella was born to Clem and Margaret Riener on Janu- ary 7, 1922 in Cottonwood, Idaho. She married Edwin Martinson on March 14, 1942, who preceded her in death in 1999. Together they raised four children. Ed Martin- son (Linda) of Lewiston, ID; Karen Gatlin (John) of Ran- cho Murieta, CA; Margo Scaife, Red Bluff, CA and John Martinson (Darlene) of Red Bluff, CA who gave her 13 Grandchildren, 22 Great Grandchildren and one Great Great Grandchild. She loved her Grandchildren and she especially loved babies. She took care of Jill Owens and Justin Martinson until they entered school. She loved beautiful things and created a yard that looked like an English Garden that she absolutely loved working in. At all times of the year, something would be in bloom. She was a wonderful homemaker and kept a beautiful home where she en- joyed hosting family events, spending her favorite times with family members. Marcella was a very beautiful woman and everyone who knew her would attest to her impeccable taste in clothing and jewelry with all the right accessories. In addition, she always had her hair and makeup done. Marcella worked at the Hyatt Lodge, Cinderella Motel and the Lamplighter Lodge as a relief manager. When she retired from work, she volunteered as a teacher's aide at Antelope School. She was a member of the Catholic Women's Guild for several years and active in the Mothers Prayer Group. Her family loved her and she will be greatly missed. There will be a visitation at Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers on Thursday, August 27, 2015 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm; Rosary will be said at 7:00pm. Mass of Christian Burial will be at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Red Bluff on Friday August 28 at 10:00am followed by a com- mittal service at St. Mary's Cemetery. Services are entrust- ed to Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers, Red Bluff, CA. Obituaries R ed Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service FD1931 527-1732 Burials - Monuments - Preneed 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2015 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 9 A