LAKE SHASTINA, Cali. – NBC5 News is learning more about an emergency helicopter landing in a lake in Siskiyou County Wednesday. The only man on board the helicopter swam away safely. But the investigation into what happened is only just beginning. The USDA Forest Service decided last weekend to temporarily ground all Bell 212 helicopters. It comes after a fatal incident in Canada last month, where one firefighter died in a helicopter crash. Now multiple federal agencies are investigating just what happened Wednesday at Lake Shastina.
Something of a miracle. The pilot of a Bell 212 helicopter swimming away unscathed, after making an emergency landing into Lake Shastina Wednesday. The pilot was getting water to help fight the Lava Fire burning in Siskiyou County.
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Siskiyou County s Hmong community gathers in Yreka for protest
Members of the Hmong Community peacefully gathered outside the Siskiyou County Courthouse to advocate for equality in the community.
Posted: Jul 6, 2021 3:21 PM
Updated: Jul 6, 2021 6:04 PM
Posted By: Adam Schumes
YREKA, Calif. - Members of Siskiyou County s Hmong community rallied outside the Siskiyou County courthouse on Tuesday after a week that saw smoldering tensions between the Hmong and county authorities become animated by the Lava Fire.
The Mount Shasta Vista Subdvision, where many of the Hmong own property, was placed under an evacuation order on June 28 as the Lava Fire made a big push to the north. From the beginning, evacuation efforts in the subdivision went sour, as some of the residents distrustful of the fire crews and Sheriff s Office deputies insisted on staying behind to fight the fire.
Siskiyou Daily News
Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue believes that two ordinances enacted by the board of supervisors in May have helped curtail some of the illegal marijuana cultivation that s happening in the Big Springs and Dorris areas.
Supervisors on Tuesday approved a second reading of the ordinances despite pleas from the Siskiyou County Hmong community, who say they unfairly affects them.
LaRue said 25 misdemeanor cases have been taken as a result of the urgency ordinance that bans water trucks carrying 100 gallons or more on certain Siskiyou County roads where illegal marijuana cultivation is rampant. When we pull over a truck in the zone, we seize it as evidence, LaRue said. We take it off the road. And this has been effective.
Firefighters battle destructive blazes in California
July 4, 2021 GMT
REDDING, Calif. (AP) Californians celebrating the Fourth of July have been warned against illegal fireworks and untended campfires as firefighters battle blazes that have destroyed homes in the tinder-dry state where the risk of more wildfires is high.
The three largest fires are burning in Northern California near Mount Shasta, about an hour from the Oregon state line.
The greatest threat came from the Salt Fire, which broke out Wednesday near a highway and destroyed 41 buildings, including 27 homes, in a rural area north of Redding. As of Sunday morning, it had grown to more than 14 square miles (36 square kilometers) and was 15% contained.
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