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Overnighttemperatures did not dip quite as low as forecast, said Weather Service meteorologist Da- vid Spector, though much of the southern San Joa- quin Valley was just be- low freezing during Fri- day's early hours. Citrus crops likely es- caped damage — temper- atures did not stay at or below 28 degrees for more than two hours, which is when problems can occur, Spector said. Still, the Cali- fornia Citrus Mutual trade association's weather ser- vice recommended using orchard fans to push the temperature up a few de- grees. There's some citrus grown in Butte County, but its concentrated in the hills east of Oroville, which are above the frost level. Cold air sinks, which is why temperatures were ex- pected to get to 30 degrees in Chico last night and 29 degrees tonight, while in east Oroville lows of 36 and 34 were forecast. Par- adise was also above ex- pected to be above freez- ing at 33 degrees both nights. The valley floor is ex- pected to dip below freez- ing once more early Mon- day morning, hitting 30 degrees. The forecast for the foothills is 35. Light snow continued in some mountains in the southern part of the state Friday. In the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles, 3 inches of snow fell overnight at the Bear Mountain resort and the slopes were filled with skiers and ski school stu- dents. "It's snowing right now as a matter of fact," said Micheal Evans, a re- sort reservation agent. "Steadily." Friday also brought more astronomical high tides — King Tides — a coastal overflow caused by an alignment of the sun, Earth and moon. At Alamitos Bay in Long Beach, seawater covered 10-to-20 yards of beach and lapped along a wall that separates the sand from a street. Freeze FROMPAGE1 Ordinance No. 1024, adopted on Dec. 3, 2013, states that no outside burning is allowed on residential property with the exceptions of fire be- ing used for cooking such as a barbecues or for land clearing. Those are now explained further and the exceptions have been added to the proposed re- vised ordinance that, if ad- opted, will become Ordi- nance No. 1039. The change would al- low the use of outdoor fireplaces subject to cer- tain requirements. The revised portion of the ordinance states: "Portable manufactured outdoor fireplaces may be used in accordance with the manufacturer's in- structions and shall not be operated within 15 feet of a structure or within 15 feet of any combusti- ble materials. Only small twigs, sticks or properly sized natural wood can be used. A minimum of one portable fire extinguisher or a water hose should be available for immediate utilization." If a fire escapes, that person would be held lia- ble for damages and sup- pression costs, according to the report. If adopted by the coun- cil, the ordinance would go into effect 30 days later. Council FROM PAGE 1 The shopping event gives the opportunity for shoppers to win a $300 shopping spree or a decorative gift basket. There will be sales on many items throughout the businesses in down- town, all starting Friday, Dec. 4 and ending Sun- day, Dec. 6. An event for kids called A Storybook Christmas will be hap- pening during the Hol- iday Open House shop- ping event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5 at Knick's Family Fun Zone. Activities will in- clude a visit with Santa, children's gift-making workshop, story time, or- nament making, finger- printing and scenic car- riage rides around down- town, Woods said. Business FROM PAGE 1 Dory:EllisDory,85,of Redding died Friday, Nov. 27in Redding. Arrange- ments are under the direc- tion of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. 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. DEATH NOTICES The interior of the building will see a ser- vice desk down the cen- ter so employees have a direct site line with the entrance and each sec- tion to allow staff to en- gage with all areas of the library. The group is con- sidering incorporating old barn wood into the build- ing to help celebrate the history of the area. There will be plenty of chances for naming rights in the building, including an area for storytelling, a children's area and a sec- tion for a study center and meeting rooms. The goal is to include a county ar- chives area, but that is on the back burner if the funding is not available, Labrecque said. Supervisor Burt Bundy asked whether there was a list of items marked as possibly not being in the building if funding was inadequate, suggesting planned panels outside the entry be one of on the list. The design includes wish list items, including the outdoor area and the panels, Labrecque said. Supervisor Dennis Gar- ton asked for the next up- date to include a list of what the cost would be if the building were done from scratch rather than re-purposing a building. Construction is set to begin in July 2016 with ex- pected occupancy to take place in June 2017. Com- munity members can view the initial report on the county website at www. co.tehama.ca.us under the Board of Supervisors sec- tion. The library has kicked off the fundraising cam- paign with a tea in Feb- ruary to be the next big event. Information will be posted as it becomes avail- able on www.tehamacoun- tylibrary.org. Donations are always welcome and checks made out to the Te- hama County Library can be mailed to 645 Madison St., Red Bluff. Library FROM PAGE 1 HEATHER HOELSCHER — DAILY NEWS Crowds start to form at the The Gold Exchange on Walnut Street for the Black Friday sale going on through next weekend. By Tom Hays The Associated Press NEW YORK After the Col- umbine High School mas- sacre in 1999 and the Mum- bai attack in 2008, police de- partments across the United States adopted a new mind- set on how to deal with what they call "active shooter" in- cidents in which people are trapped in restaurants, the- aters or other soft targets. Long gone are the days of establishingaperimeterand waitingforSWATteams and hostage negotiators to save the day. The new formula for preserving lives calls for or- dinary police officers to go on offense and take the at- tackers' lives, with an em- phasis on speed and force. It's an approach rein- forced by the recent multi- prongedattacksinParisand the hotel siege in Mali. Af- ter those attacks, authorities have been hammering home thedangersofrespondingto mass homicides in progress, even suggesting that hos- tages should fight for them- selves as a last resort. With the horrors of Paris still fresh, Washington, D.C., Police Chief Cathy Lanier said in a recent television interview that she's worried about a creeping "numb- ness to what potentially is a reality" on U.S. soil, add- ing, "Just ignoring it and not preparing yourself — that's not an option anymore." Said New York Police Com- missioner William Bratton: "It's a new world we're liv- ing in; it's a very troubling world," he said. He added that it's the police's job to worry about the threat but for "the population to be aware." Here's a look at some of the hard realities: Nohesitation, no negotiation The hostage-taking in Paris by heavily armed at- tackers linked to the Islamic State group at the Bataclan concert hall had nothing to do with using victims as bargaining chips. It was, in the words of New York Po- lice Department officials, "a media event" intended to buy time for more killing. "It's not 'Dog Day After- noon,'" said security expert Scott Stewart, of the Stratfor strategicintelligencefirm,of Austin, Texas, referring to the Al Pacino film about a prolonged hostage standoff. Withthatinmind,policeare making the calculation that, "if we move swiftly, there still be casualties, but it will be fewer casualties," said Maki Haberfeld, a profes- sor at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Commando cops Under the new normal, police departments na- tionwide have increasingly armed ordinary patrol offi- cers with high-powered ri- flestomatchextremists'fire- power in a domestic brand ofurbanwarfare.TheNYPD has taken the extra step of forming a quick-strike force of 500 officers specially trained to combat terror- ism and has run tactical drills to improve response times to multiple locations, especially soft targets such as theaters and restaurants. The approach puts ordinary cops at greater risk, "some- thing that police officers ac- cept on a daily basis. ... They live with this possibility of losing their lives on any given day, whether a benign traffic stop or a terrorist at- tack," Haberfeld said. Shooters and bombers When it comes to neu- tralizing terrorists armed with suicide vests, there are no clear answers. Ex- perts say police are trained to keep their distance, yet shoot to kill. The good news in Paris was the sui- cide bombers — as op- posed to the shooters — proved the lesser evil. It was further proof that the new brand of grass-roots jihadists "have struggled to make vests and bombs" that could cause even worse casualties, Stewart said. Two prime examples: the failed attempt by Najibul- lah Zazi to assemble sui- cide vests and deploy them in New York City subways in 2009 and the botched Times Square car bombing by Faisal Shahzad in 2010. Going down with a fight Authorities have long said that running and hid- ing could help people sur- vive a mass-shooting siege. Those who die often are shot at close range in the first few minutes after they freeze in fear. The shoot- ers typically "are not good marksmen, so the more dis- tance you can put between yourself and them, the bet- ter," Stewart said. But post- Paris, law enforcement of- ficials have talked more openly about a third way to react: fighting back. Lanier, the D.C. chief, caused a stir by telling CNN that hos- tages trapped in the line of fire might need to team up and "take the gunman out." It's a new concept for Amer- ican civilians, but "not nec- essarily a shift in counties that experience terrorism for decades. ... The best way to save your life is to try to do yourself and not wait un- til law enforcement arrives," Haberfeld said. 'ACTIVE SHOOTER' INCIDENTS New normal: US police respond to harsh reality of extremism NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT Police stage a drill simulating an attack in an abandoned subway station in New York. The Associated Press WASHINGTON Donald Trump said he couldn't have been making fun of a reporter's disability be- cause he doesn't know the man. Not so, says the re- porter. Serge Kovaleski of The New York Times says he has met Trump repeatedly, interviewing him in his of- fice and talking to him at news conferences, when he worked for the New York Daily News in the late 1980s. "Donald and I were on a first-name basis for years," he said in a Times story about the Republican presidential candidate's be- havior at a rally in South Carolina last week. Onstage Tuesday, a mocking Trump flailed his arms in an apparent at- tempt to imitate manner- isms of the "poor guy." He accused Kovaleski of back- ing off a story from a week after the 9/11 attacks that said authorities in New Jersey detained and ques- tioned "a number of people who were allegedly seen cel- ebrating the attacks." Kova- leski then worked for The Washington Post. Trump cites the story as proof of his claim that "thousands" of Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the devastation across the river. But the story did not sug- gest "thousands" were ob- served celebrating or that the reports of such a scene were true. Other accounts from that time concluded the allegations were un- founded. Kovaleski has arthro- gryposis, a congenital con- dition that restricts joint movement. In his speech, Trump cited the 2001 story, "written by a nice reporter," and went on: "Now the poor guy, you oughta see this guy — uh, I don't know what I said, uh, I don't remember. He's going like, I don't re- member." He made jerking gestures and his voice took on a mocking tone. On Thursday, Trump posted a statement on his Twitter account saying "I have no idea" who Kova- leski is and claiming to have "one of the all-time great memories." He wrote: "If Mr. Kova- leski is handicapped, I would not know, because I do not know what he looks like. If I did know, I would definitely not say anything about his appearance." Kovaleski challenged that statement in a Times story posted online Thurs- day night. "I've interviewed him in his office," he said. "I've talked to him at press con- ferences. All in all, I would say around a dozen times, I've interacted with him as a reporter" when he worked for the Daily News. COMPETING STORIES Reporter mocked by Trump says the 2 knew each other well DENNISMICHAELNICHOLS December 18, 1943 ~ November 16, 2015 Dennis Michael Nichols passed away at his home in Me- sa, Arizona, November 16th 2015, at age 71. Dennis is survived by his 4 children, Amy, Tammy, Brandon, and Andrew; several grandchildren; and 6 brothers and 7 sisters, children of Archie & Donna Nich- ols. Dennis was born in Los Angeles on December 18th 1943. He enjoyed the outdoors, fishing and hunting, and working with his hands. Dennis had a heart for helping others, if he could, expecting nothing in return. Dennis accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior 10 years ago, which changed his life. Celebration will be held at Tehama County River Park at Woodson Bridge, off South Avenue, in Corning California, on Saturday, December 5th at 11:00 a.m., and will be conducted by Dennis' younger brother, Pastor Tim Gus- tafson. Afterwards there will be a potluck BBQ, meat provided; bring hot dish, salad, or dessert to share. In lieu of flow- ers, donations may be sent to Compassion Christian Cen- ter, 319 N. 64th Street, Mesa, AZ 85205, to offset final ex- penses. Obituaries R ed Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service FD1931 527-1732 Burials - Monuments - Preneed 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2015 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 11 A