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1 V' if- I fl 10A Thursday, September 28, 2000 Enterprise-Record STTORRDE: River impact SHOOTING: Suspect Facts about the Storrie Fife i Brown was Reportedly From 1A ound root systems m.y bum While hot spots and underground root systems may bum Ignited Aug. 17. Officially controlled at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept 27. At its height more than 2,500 people fought the fire.

Officially contained Sept 9. Cost of fighting the fire: $23 million as of Sept 21 126 firefighters still on the lines, Visitors may resume using the forest area. However, the Pacific Crest Trail remains dosed from Bekten north, in the fire clear into next year, the Forest 7 area. From 1A shotgun and threatened to rob him. According to Ramsey, wit- told police they saw the when he saw their headlights, into a stop sign about a mile away on Manzmuta Avenue dreHookerOakRecreatim Area, police shot and wounded the Mdunt Hough Ranger District at For information about conditions, Ranger District at 283-0555, or the Aim 258-2141.

what would happen if he didn't Brownafter theysayhe refused enough money to pay for demands to drop his 1 weapon appointed it at one of thetwo officers. pullover to let his fareoiit but mat the suspt thtnstthejhot-held the name of the officer who ovet fteliti)Mfiftold t1iianifiJldn't rains come. He said should this winter follow last year's pattern of rel- be no significantimpact. On other hand, if. storms nes that hit Dec.

31, ana' Jan. 1, 1997, were to hit again then anything is pos sible. That storm, which Robbins called a "flood of record," carried debris into the lake from record high elevations along the river bank and brought in so much silt that "turbidity" lin- geied below in Feather River Lake Oroville for most of the fo illowing year. Floating debris covered 400 res of me lake's surface, but acres even with that there were no a aia Mel aa iagll Cmm Ikaa particular problems for the water and power operation of die lake. Robbins said that sort of runoff is unlikely this winter because die December-January storm was unprecedented in lake history.

He said die likely impact of run-off from the Storrie Fire is somewhere between ble and minimaL" i reason is that apparent great size, die Storrie Fire reallv really covered only a tiny wounded Brown, the criminal iLm Qiico teen Wednesday ldenti- fies him as Alec Lowe. Ramsey said Wednesday that Ka m4 he has not yet received the findings of an officer-involved mgs or an omcer-invoivea shooting protocol team that is ImrAeh'MhMA itiA appointed to represent Brown, investigating the incident In court Wednesday, Chico Dennis Hoptowit was actions "startled" him and that the shotgun went off acridental-attorney ly. and the case was continued until Monday for further proceedings. Uncertain whether identity is an issue in die case, die judge has barred courtroom photos of the suspect at this time. The kidnapping for robbery charge against Brown carries a maximum term of 25-years-to- Decision called historic momenf "It (the fire) will have both positive and negative effects because it is.

a natural said the professor: He claimed die Storrie Fire could cause problems in terms of siltation and debris going into die Feather or its tributaries in relatively isolated spots, but he doesn't expect any wide- nai I1 spreadproblems. While the siltation may be a short-term difficulty the regrowth vegetation regrowtii of new and vigorous voonfahnn lanll inrmaeii aiui will increase and the "filtration'" of run- improve me iurrauon or run- df water reaching die river and it urill imnwwra tfia nuorall that will improve the overall water quality, according to Holtgrieve. The professor said natural systems tnan mo are most people realize and the fire ultimately will be good for die Feather. more "resilient" pliant with Americans with Dis abilities Act requirements. is little oppositi There was little opposition from the public Wednesday, although several ridge residents expressed concerns about pay-' the project.

Rough said ing for ti hehopesl to get most or all of the money from grants sfind said funds are already available to get the project started. Rough and council members assured citizens Wednesday night that taxes would not be raised to pay for the revitalization. Till safer segment of die Feather River drainage. v- The Storrie Fire, to a greater or lesser degree, burned about 55,000 acres, but, to Robbins, die drainage that ke Oroville nels into Lake Uroviiie covers more than 231 million acres. That means die fire burned about 2.4 percent of the total dlaotatMMidt drainage.

Don Holtgrieve, a professor of geography at Chico State University who has been involved in a range of waters been, rafon. shed projects, said a balanced world that 2.4 percent would be about die amount of a California watershed one would expect to bum annually if man weren't involved. Holtgrieve said overly aggressive fire suppression actvmUjjMcreates problems for wai nesses will be asked to follow new, voluntary signage guidelines. "We believe that people will in die spirit of mis revital-and recognize what it for the future of the means iur me ru town, Rough said Th nmnneal ral The proposal calls for a new $33 million town center that would house all town government and public safety departments, plus public meetinj rooms. A six- acre city park an are also proposed.

program Tne town would' also gain increased septic capacity and make tiie downtown area com- main streets defeated by Milosevic for the Serbian presidency in December 1992. To avoid conflict, Panic sug-ted Russian- President gested Russian- President Vladimir Putin send a plane to Belgrade "to take Milosevic and his clique out Protesters threw firecrackers and flares. about the stolen cab crashing on life in prison. Manzanita Avenue. The Chico teen could receive The two officers reported se a second life term under an ing the beam of a flashlight, fid-enhancement alleging he used a lowed moments later by Brown gun to inflict great bodily injury "waving" the sawed-off shot-to tiie cab driver.

gun in me air, Ramsey said. The accused gunman is also After they took cover, police charged with assault with a claim the suspect was repeated- "en cab crashii Memorial Traflway to die east Rough said approximately 10 Pcent of town revenue comes from this area now and noted store acanints for a lot of that. A decade ago tnis area pro- ducedalwullSMtoenlofto revenue, and it can properties within the 120 Existing businesses and homes again," Ramsey said Brown also "made totanente-dial he had ingest- 4UfPfctconcealed the sawed- fiSSj'Jrsis to Rsmseyi "keen going? I'll VC fjet ulT6 1 when we get whether to you qj take your money." paint the cah dm told a sack of w. Inver cash and bolted from die cab. Ramgeyvkaid Brown told 'cab driver's Ramsey said a Chico police Medical officer was at Enloe Center when a motorist brought in the wounded cab driver morning.

Because police were tied up on other calls, Ramsey said that only "a police sergeant and a patrol officer" were available-to respond to neighbors' cadis ly ordered to piit the weapon down and that when he pointed it at one of them, the officer fired his own 12-gauge shotgun loaded with buckshot at Brown from a distance of about 50 to 60 feet. -v I r5SW: DeS? Heart 5pWOOD 5 Un. ft. firearm on a peace officer, which could add eight more years to right more years potential sentence. Ramsey said that at a briefing at the Chico police department Monday, police detailed the following scenario of events: there will be encouraged to parking improvements includ-dean up their properties and do ing two centralized lots, minor modifications to support streetscape enhancements, ban-the new downtown look.

New ners ana 1 a municipal signage i Service has already started play- 7 report an the potential impact of the fire on the watershed is already in the draft stage. The draft report cites a number of potential "rides'' that may arise as a result of the Storrie Fire. "There is, a risk of sediment moving into Lake Oroville since (the) Pacific Gas and Electric North Fork of die Feather River reservoirs and die Rock Creek Reservoir upstream of Lake Oroville have exceeded their sediment holding capacity. "As a result sediment and debris coming off the bum area will move through these and into Lake Oroville," states the draft report Ed Robbins, who works in water operations for the state Department of Water Resources at Lake Oroville, said anything is possible, but the likelihood that run-off from the Storrie Fire area would cause trouble is small. The key elements are the amount of rain aad the way die RARAD3SE: From 1A Town Manager Chuck Rough called die projeri "historic and noted thaHtsadoptian fulfilled the town's 1994 general plan, tl.

i fii l. tafta fire pIuukTovct 10 "We are dedicated our small town atmosphere values but the council and the of Paradise have declared that certain conditions are no longer acceptable and want to go forward with this plan," Rough said. The downtown area is bounded by Elliott Road to the north, Pearson Road to the south. Skyway to the west and PROTEST From 1A Vojislav Kostunica, who the opposition claims defeated Milosevic in Sunday's vote, told the'nowd? there will 'be no runoff. "If we brixained with tiwm.

then we wbiifi recpgnia tiie lie 5 instead of the truth, Kostunica said. "If we bargain, we would recognize that tne will of one man, Slobodan Milosevic, was stronger than the will of the entire nation." The opposition, using figures from its poll watchers, claimed Kostunica won 5234 percent to Milosevic's 32.01 percent enough for a first-round victory in tiie five-candidate Arid. But the. state electoral commission, which is loyal to Milosevic, says Kostunica finished first with 4832 percent while Milosevic polled 40i3percent. would necessitate a runoff, since neither received, morel sition 1 DUIM imuisi IVWVUa tiuui 50 percent The oppo-1 quickly rejected the idea, CRASH From 1A fact that dark was wearing a seatbelt probably prevented injury, Fickert said.

senous injury, A Chico firefighter on the scene said a combination of tiie fastened seatbelt, caved-in roof and broken glass from the windshield kept Clark from removing herself from the cab. Firefighters ripped tiie roof from tne El Camino to pull Clark out Fickert said Clark did not say what caused the accident and that dark had no specific pain to First Responder paramedics while they were taking her to Enloe Medical Center. businesses the town hopes to attract will have to comply with architectural guidelines con- tained in the proposal AH busi- Crowd clogs blit the government set the runoff date. In New York on Wednesday, former Prime! Minister Milan Palhic urged "Russia, Yu: Milosevic 31a, Yugo- lly, to offer fo spare ilwar. is almost who was tiie country inevitable.

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