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FRIDAY JULY 13, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 5A Breaking news at: Accessible Trails Open Whiskeytown NRA RED BLUFF Griffin Hurt SPORTS 1B Sunny 102/67 Weather forecast 8A DAILYNEWS TEHAMACOUNTY DAILY 50¢ T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Corning woman stabbed, estranged husband suspected woman was flown to Enloe Medical Center in Chico after she was reportedly stabbed early Thursday by her estranged husband, who then fled the Kauffman Avenue A 28-year-old Corning apartment. Officers contacted the Explosion cuts power woman, who had stab wounds to her abdomen and forearm, at the residence, where she told officers she had been stabbed by her estranged hus- band, according to a Corning Police press release. Humberto Perez, Jr., 23, of Los Angeles was taken into custody shortly after the inci- dent, which took place at 5:49 a.m. in the 1600 block of Kauffman Avenue. The large knife Perez reportedly used was found near a residence in the 1000 block of West Street, the release said. Perez was booked into Tehama County Jail on the charges of attempted murder, inflicting corporal injury, child endangerment and burglary. Nothing further was avail- able. —Julie Zeeb Caller scams woman, 89, out of $23,000 An 89-year-old Red Bluff woman was the victim of phone scam that cost her about $23,000 over the past six weeks. The woman told the Tehama County Sheriff's Office she had received a phone call from someone whom she believed to be a relative in mid June. The person told her he was in trouble and requested a cash card be mailed to an address in Arizona. See SCAMS, page 7A Bill to help keep small cemeteries solvent A bill authored by State Sen. Doug LaMalfa, R- Richvale, relaxing ceme- tery Photo by Ross Palubeski A transformer fire in the area of Breckenridge and Monroe streets about 2:45 p.m. Thursday may be the cause of a PG&E power outage in the Forward Addition.The outage affected 1,530 customers and power was expected to be restored by 5:45 p.m. Thursday, according to the PG&E website. About 4:30 p.m. some power had been restored as the website listed 1,127 people affected. The fire caused a 20-foot by 60-foot spot fire in the vegetation and minor damage to wooden fence posts and a utility pole, Red Bluff Fire Chief Jon Bennett said. The fire, which was contained at 2:58 p.m., was caused by a squirrel getting into the electrical equipment at the substation, causing an explosion. Mill Fire rages on, up to 17,300 acres By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer is expected to be contained by July 20. There have been three injuries and five outbuildings destroyed, according to the NorCal Interagency Incident Man- agement Team press release. The Mill Fire, burning in northwestern Colusa County about 10 miles west of Stonyford in the Mendocino National Forest, is up to 17,300 acres burned as of Thursday with 38 percent containment. The fire, which started about midnight on July 7, signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jerry Brown. Senate Bill 1131 allows for public cemetery dis- tricts in Anderson, Cotton- wood and Dixon to bury a limited number of non- residents each year. Previously only resi- dents and property owners within the specified dis- tricts could be buried there. With small popula- tions and declining burial rates due to the opening of state and federal veterans cemeteries, the three dis- tricts were having trouble meeting costs. restrictions was "I'm glad that I was able to partner with Gov. Brown to provide some relief to these struggling, rural cemeteries," LaMal- fa said in a press release. "Without the opportunity to inter nonresidents, these three cemetery districts do not have populations to continue bringing in baseline rev- enues and, consequently, the grounds would either fall into disrepair or would be closed. That is simply not an option for the sacred final resting places of North State residents." The bill passed unani- mously through the Senate and Assembly. —Rich Greene large enough Fire claims Riverside Avenue structure There are 1,549 people assigned to the fire, including members of Red Bluff Fire and the Tehama-Glenn Unit of CalFire. Cost for fighting the fire is estimated at $4.5 million. Burnout operations started Thursday on the east and west sides of the fire to strengthen containment lines and consume unburned fuel between the indi- rect line and the fire's edge. The steep, rugged terrain and fire behavior make it too dangerous for firefighters to go directly along the uncontained fire edge, according to the release. Evacuations are in effect for the areas of Fouts Springs, Bonnie View, and Board Camp Springs and campgrounds within the Upper Letts Lake area. Por- tions of the community of Stonyford are under vol- See FIRE, page 7A Local law enforce- ment used a GPS system Wednesday to take an inmate back into custody who had violated terms of his release. On Tuesday Shane Holtzclaw, 29, Red Bluff, was released on an Alternative Custody Pro- gram, with the require- ment of wearing a GPS electronic monitoring ankle bracelet. Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Firefighters from Red Bluff Fire, CalFire and Tehama County Fire respond to a structure fire reported at 1:40 p.m. Thursday that spread into nearby vegetation in the 21800 block of Riverside Avenue, off of Highway 99W.The cause of the fire is under investigation. GPS device helps locate wayward county prisoner in Anderson During the early morning hours Wednes- day it was determined Holtzclaw was in viola- tion of the release agree- ment. He had been tracked through the GPS system to be in Ander- son traveling around res- idential and commercial areas. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 Sheriff's Office contact- ed the Anderson Police The Tehama County and gave the GPS lati- tude and longitude of Holtzclaw's where- abouts. Anderson Police found Holtzclaw sleep- ing behind a dumpster in a hotel parking lot. He was returned to custody at the Tehama County Jail, where he will com- plete his sentence. The electronic moni- toring system has been in place for three months. "This program is a highly monitored suc- cessful program allow- ing low risk minimum security offenders to complete the term of their incarceration at home under electronic monitoring or work in the community on public service projects, thus easing the population levels of the Tehama County Jail," a press release said. Holtzclaw pled guilty to petty theft on June 27 after being arrested at Raley's. He was sentenced to 18 months of probation, RED HAVEN PEACHES Scales at the Barn You-Pick SALE ORCHARDS 22125 Gilmore Ranch Rd. (South end of Williams Ave.) 527-3504 Hours 7 to 5 30 days in county jail and a $778 fine. — Rich Greene TEHAMA COUNTY GLASS MOULE'S SUNSCREENS Reduce Heat SAVE ENERGY Keep the heat out. up to 90% 515 Sycamore St. 529-0260