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About 4:15 p.m. Friday, Sheriff’s deputies and California Highway Patrol officers were called to the scene of an attempted screwdriver stabbing to avenge a earlier stabbing in the 100 block of Laws Avenue, Ukiah, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office stated.
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About 4:15 p.m. Friday, Sheriff’s deputies and California Highway Patrol officers were called to the scene of an attempted screwdriver stabbing to avenge a earlier stabbing in the 100 block of Laws Avenue, Ukiah, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office stated.
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CHP officer challenges incumbent for sheriff [Daily Triplicate]
Two longtime Del Norte County residents are running for Sheriff/Coroner in the June 8 election.
Incumbent Dean Wilson has lived in Del Norte County for 41 years, and has held the office of sheriff/coroner since 2002. He faces a challenge from Brian Clemann, a current California Highway Patrol officer and former Sheriff’s Office deputy, who was born in Crescent City and has been a lifelong county resident.
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Elvia Flores, a freshman at Live Oak High School, was last seen being dropped off at school Monday.
A 14-year-old Sutter County girl was back home with her mother Wednesday night after she was found in Gridley earlier in the day.
Elvia Flores was the subject of an Amber Alert and a widespread search in Sutter County after it was reported that she had been kidnapped Monday from Live Oak High School.
But based on interviews with Flores on Wednesday afternoon, “we don’t feel there was any type of abduction,” said Sutter County sheriff’s Sgt. Glen Mercer.
Sheriff’s officials reported that they received a call from the Gridley Police Department about 2 p.m. Wednesday advising them that a Gridley police officer had spotted Flores walking down an alley in the area of Oak Street and had taken her into custody.
Mercer said Flores and a girl who reported that she and Flores were kidnapped from Live Oak High School on Monday, apparently left the area of their own accord. He said it appears Flores left with the intention of visiting someone.
Flores was dropped off at the high school Monday by her mother. The other girl said that she and Flores had been abducted outside the high school by four or five men.
The girlfriend told deputies about the alleged abduction after the California Highway Patrol found her at a gas station in Orland.
Mercer said sheriff’s investigators are still deciding whether anyone will be charged with a crime.
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The California Highway Patrol believes a 26-year-old woman who fell from a bridge over the Van Duzen River early Friday morning may have been the victim of a hit-and-run.
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TWN Staff Writer
March 23 at about 9 p.m. Little Lake firefighters were called to the scene of a pickup truck crash into a creek off Valley Road. The pickup truck, driven westbound at about 40 mph by Preston Lewis, 28, of Willits, went straight instead of following the sweeping right hand turn, according to California Highway Patrol reports.
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3 men injured when pickup rolls, hits tree [Daily Triplicate]
Two Crescent City men remained hospitalized Thursday, one in critical condition, after the pickup they were in rolled off Rowdy Creek Road and collided with a tree Wednesday night, the California Highway Patrol reported.
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U.S. Forest Service rescuers Nick Meyers, left, and Eric White, center, pack and weigh gear at Weed Airport while awaiting an attempt to locate Oakland climber Thomas Bennett.
The Siskiyou Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that a search and rescue team has found the body of Thomas Bennett, the 26-year-old climber who was last seen alive Saturday near Mount Shasta’s summit.
Bennett’s family today was at a Siskiyou County airport where rescuers assembled for their ascent of the 14,162-foot mountain.
Rescuers flew up the mountain in a powerful California National Guard Chinook helicopter, a heavy-lifting chopper with twin rotors, which arrived at the small airport near the town of Weed on Wednesday.
On board the Chinook were six Air National Guard soldiers, three U.S. Forest Service rangers expert in climbing and four Siskiyou County search-and-rescue personnel.
The Chinook was supposed to land in a snow field near the summit about 100 feet from where Bennett was last seen. Five rescuers were on board — the three Forest Service rangers and two Siskiyou County search and rescue personnel — to climb to where they believe Bennett took refuge.
On Wednesday, cloud cover near the summit forced two lighter helicopters to return to the rural landing strip along Interstate 5 that is serving as a rescue base.
Rescue personnel waited there Wednesday for breaks in the weather. With no indoor gathering place, they stood in the cold or sat in vehicles.
The massive volcanic peak loomed over all, its upper reaches veiled in clouds.
“I have a great respect for this mountain,” said Eric White, the Forest Service’s lead climbing ranger on Mount Shasta, who is participating in the rescue effort.
Bennett, a chemical engineer from Oakland, fell ill Sunday near the mountaintop. He had reached the summit Saturday with climbing partner Mark Thomas, 26, a structural engineer from Berkeley.
On the peak, they were surprised by an approaching storm and took shelter for the night behind boulders at about 14,000 feet.
Thomas told his father that the pair made it through the night in warm clothes and sleeping sacks and were in good spirits Sunday morning as they prepared to descend.
But Bennett collapsed while he was putting on his crampons and within 45 minutes was unresponsive, Jay Thomas said his son told him. Mark Thomas’ efforts to revive the man were unsuccessful, his father said.
After putting Bennett in a snow cave with food and water, Thomas started down the mountain Sunday afternoon and on Monday was picked up by rangers on snowmobiles.
He told authorities he believed Bennett was suffering from severe altitude sickness and might have died.
Experts in high-altitude medicine said Wednesday that altitude sickness was an unlikely cause if Bennett suddenly collapsed and quickly slid into unconsciousness.
“That’s not the way acute mountain sickness is,” said John Severinghaus, a retired professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and a prominent researcher in high-altitude medicine. “It’s a slow onset process with lots of symptoms first. It begins with headache and nausea and vomiting and feeling terrible.
“If it gets bad enough, it could turn into cerebral edema (a swelling of the brain tissue),” he said. “You can’t stand. You’re dizzy. You complain like crazy. It occurs over many hours.”
A more likely cause, doctors said, was a stroke or a pulmonary embolism — a blood clot that develops in the legs and moves to the lungs. Hours of exertion and huddling in the cold at high altitude could have caused it, they said. Then, as Bennett was putting his crampons on, the clot could have broken free and blocked the arteries going to his lungs, doctors said.
People who experience the condition “spiral downhill very rapidly,” said Thomas Dietz, an emergency room physician in Oregon who for years treated climbers for altitude-related illnesses at a clinic near Mount Everest’s base camp. “Over a period of minutes, maybe an hour, the person slides into a coma. If that’s what happened, there’s nothing you could do on the mountain.”
Officials have continued to operate on the assumption that Bennett could be clinging to life on the wind-scoured pinnacle of ice and rock. The summit has experienced sub-zero temperatures, snow and gale-force winds in recent days.
At about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, rescue teams were hopeful they could take advantage of a break in the weather to reach Bennett’s location, but deteriorating conditions forced a California Highway Patrol helicopter to return to base.
A few hours later, at about 2:40 p.m., a larger Super Huey helicopter sent by the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection made a reconnaissance flight but could ascend only to about 12,000 feet because of cloud cover.
“We were looking for that weather window, and it doesn’t look like we’re going to get it,” said Tom McConnel, a veteran pilot with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The Chinook arrived, and rescuers agreed to try again this morning.
Forest Service climbing ranger Dan Tower, in red, thanks Highway Patrol pilot Bob Stetser after their landing Wednesday at Weed Airport.
Ranger Eric White gets a hug from an unidentified friend of missing climber Thomas Bennett.
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U.S. Forest Service rescuers Nick Meyers, left, and Eric White, center, pack and weigh gear at Weed Airport while awaiting an attempt to locate Oakland climber Thomas Bennett.
Rescuers plan to make another attempt today to reach Thomas Bennett, a 26-year-old climber stranded since Saturday near Mount Shasta’s summit.
This time they intend to use a powerful helicopter that left Mather Field on Wednesday.
The California National Guard Chinook, a heavy-lifting helicopter with twin rotors, arrived at a small airport near the Siskiyou County town of Weed on Wednesday, just before 3 p.m.
Cloud cover near the summit forced two lighter helicopters to return to the rural landing strip along Interstate 5 that is serving as a rescue base.
Team members from the U.S. Forest Service, Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Department and other agencies waited at the airport Wednesday for breaks in the weather. With no indoor gathering place, they stood in the cold or sat in vehicles.
The massive volcanic peak loomed over all, its upper reaches veiled in clouds.
“I have a great respect for this mountain,” said Eric White, the Forest Service’s lead climbing ranger on Mount Shasta, who is taking part in the rescue effort.
Authorities said they would make another push today at about 7 a.m. – when they hope skies will be clear and winds will be light – to reach Bennett.
The chemical engineer from Oakland fell ill Sunday near the mountaintop. He had reached the summit Saturday with climbing partner Mark Thomas, a 26-year-old structural engineer from Berkeley.
On the 14,162-foot peak, they were surprised by an approaching storm and took shelter for the night behind boulders at about 14,000 feet.
Thomas told his father that the pair made it through the night in warm clothes and sleeping sacks and were in good spirits Sunday morning as they prepared to descend.
But Bennett collapsed while he was putting on his crampons and within 45 minutes was unresponsive, Jay Thomas said his son told him. Mark Thomas’ efforts to revive the man were unsuccessful, his father said.
After putting Bennett in a snow cave with food and water, Thomas started down the mountain Sunday afternoon and on Monday was picked up by rangers on snowmobiles.
He told authorities he believed Bennett was suffering from severe altitude sickness and might have died.
Experts in high-altitude medicine said Wednesday that altitude sickness was an unlikely cause if Bennett suddenly collapsed and quickly slid into unconsciousness.
“That’s not the way acute mountain sickness is,” said John Severinghaus, a retired professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and a prominent researcher in high-altitude medicine. “It’s a slow onset process with lots of symptoms first. It begins with headache and nausea and vomiting and feeling terrible.
“If it gets bad enough, it could turn into cerebral edema (a swelling of the brain tissue),” he said. “You can’t stand. You’re dizzy. You complain like crazy. It occurs over many hours.”
A more likely cause, doctors said, was a stroke or a pulmonary embolism – a blood clot that develops in the legs and moves to the lungs. Hours of exertion and huddling in the cold at high altitude could have caused it, they said. Then, as Bennett was putting his crampons on, the clot could have broken free and blocked the arteries going to his lungs, doctors said.
Those who experience the condition “spiral downhill very rapidly,” said Thomas Dietz, an emergency room physician in Oregon who for years treated climbers for altitude- related illnesses at a clinic near Mount Everest’s base camp. “Over a period of minutes, maybe an hour, the person slides into a coma. If that’s what happened, there’s nothing you could do on the mountain.”
Officials have continued to operate on the assumption that Bennett could be clinging to life on the wind-scoured pinnacle of ice and rock. The summit has experienced sub-zero temperatures, snow, and gale-force winds in recent days.
At about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, rescue teams were hopeful they could take advantage of a break in the weather to reach Bennett’s location, but the weather forced a California Highway Patrol helicopter to return to base.
A few hours later, at about 2:40 p.m., a larger Super Huey helicopter sent by the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection made a reconnaissance flight but could ascend only to about 12,000 feet because of cloud cover.
“We were looking for that weather window, and it doesn’t look like we’re going to get it,” said Tom McConnel, a veteran pilot with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The Chinook arrived, and rescuers agreed to try again this morning.
Meanwhile, Bennett’s relatives and girlfriend, and surviving climber Thomas, were reported to be gathering in the area, awaiting news and preparing for the worst.
They could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
MOUNT SHASTA Experts said that altitude sickness was an unlikely cause if climber Thomas Bennett collapsed suddenly and quickly slid into unconsciousness. A more likely cause is a stroke or a pulmonary embolism, they said.
Forest Service climbing ranger Dan Tower, in red, thanks Highway Patrol pilot Bob Stetser after their landing Wednesday at Weed Airport.
Ranger Eric White gets a hug from an unidentified friend of missing climber Thomas Bennett.
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A Washington man was badly hurt and arrested Thursday night after a head-on collision that also sent a 3-year-old boy to the hospital. The California Highway Patrol said Brad Harkless, 42, of Woodinville, Wash.
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A Texas woman was taken to a Bay Area hospital after the motorcycle she was a passenger on crashed into the back of a Jeep on Tuesday. The California Highway Patrol said Phillip Beaudry, 27, of Eureka, was riding his motorcycle southbound on New
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A vehicle being driven by a 26-year-old Hopland man on Old River Road shortly before 4 p.m. Monday was rear-ended by an unknown driver, according to the California Highway Patrol.
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An allegedly intoxicated driver’s effort to avoid hitting an animal in the road landed her in the hospital late Friday night with minor injuries, according to a report from the Ukiah Area California Highway Patrol.
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A Laytonville man was injured in a rollover crash on Branscomb Road Wednesday evening when his Jeep Cherokee overturned. The California Highway Patrol says alcohol “appears to be a factor.”
Joseph Shelton, 21, was driving eastbound on Branscomb Road at 7:30 p.
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A Eureka woman died Tuesday night after her car collided with another vehicle on U.S. Highway 101 near Petaluma. According to the California Highway Patrol, Loretta Sayers, 62, attempted to cross the southbound lane of U.
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