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Emblem Club Red Bluff Emblem club members performed a variety of duties at the winter meeting of the Cali- fornia-Nevada-Hawaii State Association of Emblem Clubs in Visalia. Members included Bon- nie Lewis, state president; Karen Magnusson- Moore, state marshal; Carry Padilla, state corre- sponding secretary and Jeannie Garton, assistant state organist. Officers of the Supreme Emblem Club of the United States of America were honored. They included Melody Cathey of Meridianville, AL., supreme president. Those from Red Bluff were Cheri Fereira, supreme assistant chaplain and Gar- ton, supreme installing organist. Connie Ross, club president, and Fereira participated in the Massing of the Colors, joining in carrying American flags by each club present. Millie Krick staffed the booth of the Hearing Dog project, one of the state organization's official charities. The state association voted a $10,000 contribution to the group training dogs to assist the deaf and hard of hearing. Fereira assisted at the table for another of the state charities, scholarships for teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing. As their other duties permitted, they and Carolyn Swinhart attended workshops, including American- ism, community service, drug awareness, literacy and other state projects and procedures. Quilters Guild The February meeting of the Sun Country Quilters Guild will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, at the Red Bluff Community and Senior Center, located at 1500 S. Jackson St. This month's meeting feature presentation will be a trunk and slide show by Sylvia Pippen from Hawaii. She will will have beautiful flowers and sashiko designs packaged in kits ready for your next applique project. Interested quilters may join the guild for an annual membership fee of $30 or attend the meeting for $5. Information is available by contacting Sun Country Quilters, P.O. 8266, Red Bluff or visiting the Web site: wwwsuncountryquilters.com. 2A – Daily News – Friday, February 19, 2010 THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNTY SINCE 1885 Editor: Chip Thompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com Sports Editor: Rich Greene sports@redbluffdailynews.com Circulation Manager: Kathy Hogan khogan@redbluffdailynews.com Production Manager: Sandy Valdivia sandy@redbluffdailynews.com On the Web: www.redbluffdailynews.com MAIN OFFICE: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Main Phone (530) 527-2151 Outside area 800-479-6397 545 Diamond Ave. Red Bluff, CA 96080 ______________________ Mail: Red Bluff Daily News P.O. 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NEWS News Tip Hotline: 527-2153 FAX: (530) 527-9251 E-mail: clerk@redbluffdailynews.com Daytime: (530) 527-2151 Sports: Ext. 111 Obituaries: Ext. 103 Tours: Ext. 112 After hours: (530) 527-2153 ______________________ ADVERTISING Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Display: 527-2151 Ext. 122 Classified: 527-2151 Ext. 103 Online (530) 527-2151 Ext. 133 FAX: (530) 527-5774 E-mail: advertise@redbluffdailynews.com VOLUME 125, NUMBER 77 A MediaNews Group Newspaper The Red Bluff Daily News is an adjudicated daily newspaper of general circulation, County of Tehama, Superior Court Decree 9670, May 25, 1955 © 2010 Daily News N EWS D AILY RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY SPECIAL PAGES ON THE FOLLOWING DAYS Mondays: Kids Corner Tuesdays: Employment Wednesdays: Business Thursdays: Entertainment Fridays: Select TV Saturdays: Farm, Religion HOW TO REACH US Publisher & Advertising Director: Greg Stevens gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com DW PLUMBING INC. Local Plumbers Serving all Your Plumbing Needs Since 1993 530 527-6403 Lic. No 679492 Major Credit Cards Accepted at 649 Main Street Downtown Red Bluff Planning aWedding? Come to Gayle's Tuxedo Rentals Best Selection Best Service Best Prices Bartlett & Spence 1395 Montgomery Rd. Red Bluff, Ca • 527-2276 Marie Bartlett & Shirley Spence and • Payroll • Bookkeeping Open year around Beautiful Hair & Nails Welcomes: Anneliese Peterson For appts or directions Call: 200-Hair Providing: Cuts, Colors, Styles and smiles for the whole family Open Mon.-Fri. Located on the corner of Lincoln & Walnut Community people & events Prominent Y Prominent Y oung oung Men Buy Land Men Buy Land Near Corning Near Corning A deed was filed in the county recorder's office today where George Hoag, Sr., of Corning, deeds to his son, George A. Hoag and Joe P. Tait of Tehama, 120 acres of land on the Sacramento river near Corn- ing, now in alfalfa and 1,700 acres of pasture land near Paskenta, which will be used for stock purposes. – Daily New, Feb. 19, 1910 100 100 years years ago... ago... Setting it straight An article in Wednesday's edition about the grand opening of the House of Brews contained errors. Don and Pamela Holden are the co-owners of the coffee shop. Their daughters, Rebekah Callahan and Jessica Pierce, operate the business. The Daily News regrets the errors. –––––––– 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. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. From the firehouse: All risk department By DAVE CARR Red Bluff Fire Department There are many things that have been added to the fire services role in public safety over the past three decades. The obvious response for Red Bluff Fire Department are the fires but that is one component of many. In the 1960's and 1970's the fire department response was primarily public fire protection and we inherited emergency medical service due to the fact that fire stations were strategically located and more readily available than ambulance services. That is why when someone calls 911 because they are very ill or injured you get a fire engine first. All RBFD personnel are trained to Emergency Medical Technician level with some specialized skills added in. We are EMT's and also are trained for Auto- matic External Defibrillator (AED) use. One more specialty is advanced airways. We call these airway adjuncts "combi-tube" and it is used for respi- ratory support or to breathe for a patient who is not breathing or is not breathing enough to support life. In the 1980's hazardous materials became a part of fire department responses. There are tens of thousands of dangerous chemicals in use today and transported over our roadways and the fire service was the natural choice for chemical response. On any given day more than a thou- sand trucks travel interstate 5 through our area and since we already use breathing apparatus and have mobile water supplies and training for traffic accidents and EMS, we were again called upon to provide first response for this type of emergency to protect lives, environment and property in that order. Chemical releases can be dead- ly to people and can harm the environ- ment for decades. In the 1990's technical rescue disci- plines such as confined space rescue (people trapped in underground tanks, tunnels, grain silos etc.) became the buzzword and many of our firefighters are trained for this special rescue disci- pline. Urban Search and Rescue for victims of earthquake and structure collapse was a focus for the fire ser- vice in the 90's. We train every new cadet to certain levels for these rescue disciplines and since we house, staff and maintain a fire engine owned by the state of California and available statewide, we have to keep our skill level for rescue at a high standard. It would not be out of the question for our firefighters and the state- owned engine to be sent to San Francisco to per- form rescue service due to a large earth- quake. In the 2000's and post September 11, 2001 weapons of mass destruction became mandated training for all fire and rescue services. Our personnel were sent to training to respond safely to chemical and biolog- ical weapon incidents. There is still more that we do; how- ever. Public service calls come in many varieties. We unlock vehicles when there is a hazard or someone trapped inside. Just last week a small child was in a vehicle and was playing with the buttons and locked the doors with the keys inside and the parents outside and we responded to unlock the vehicle. We also help people who have fallen and are otherwise unin- jured but just need a hand getting up. Illegal burning seems to be an issue all year long! Someone sees smoke rising in the air and calls us and we help enforce city code and burning regulations on the behalf of Air Quali- ty Control who actually set the days and times that people can burn in the city and county. Briefly, the regs state you may burn leaves only in the curb portion of the gutter and many times we find people burning couches and trash and other rubbish. Some of these unlawful burning incidents have resulted in burning down fences and even unattended burning that burns to the neighbors' house. Vehicle fires, dumpster fires and vegetation fires are incidents we man- age often. Often the burning vehicle threatens vegetation or a burning dumpster threatens the structure it is up against. Every year our firefighters are sent out of the area to large wildfires such as the Station Fire last year and we maintain a good working rela- tionship with Tehama County Fire Department and Calfire. They help us when we need it and we help them in their juris- diction when needed and this is known as a mutual aid plan. Mutual aid helps us do more with less so to speak and is an efficient and effective way to deal with a large inci- dent such as a structure or wildland fire with limited resources. Traffic accidents are a large part of our responses and require specialized training in vehicle rescue otherwise known as "extrication". This is where we use the Jaws of Life to cut a vehi- cle away from a trapped person then render emergency medical attention and is a specialty in itself. So, as the first line of defense for the protection of our citizens we have to train hard and often and continually keep up on technologies to enhance our operations to include all risks. RBFD responses for Feb. 1 through Feb. 17: 114 emergency medical calls, 5 public service calls, 5 traffic colli- sions, 3 other type fires, 2 structure fires/alarms, 3 other type incidents, 1 illegal burning call, 3 false alarms, 5 police assists, 1 train vs. pedestrian, 2 odor/smoke investigations, 1 haz- ardous material spill. As always, I welcome public com- ment and concerns. From the Firehouse runs on Fridays. Dave Carr is an Engineer with the Red Bluff Fire Department. He can be contacted at dcarr@rbfd.org or by calling the station at 527-1126. 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Lima and several volunteers thanked Spannaus and the Corning Fire Department for a recent donation with a huge poster presented during the council meeting.