CHP’s Northern Division Air Ops busy with trio of high-altitude hoist rescues in five days

NORTH STATE REGION, Calif. — Constantly training for high-altitude, technical hoist rescues, California Highway Patrol’s Northern Division Air Operations aviation crew members are always prepared to launch at a moment’s notice for such emergencies. However, it was a busier week than usual with three separate and unrelated rescues performed in the North State region over the last week. The first […]

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Highway renamed in honor of CDCR officer killed in Shasta County crash last year

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Following the death of High Desert State Prison Correctional Officer Richard Bianchi Jr., who passed away after a solo-vehicle crash near Old Station in Shasta County last year, the Assembly Transportation Committee passed Assembly Concurrent Resolution 32 by naming a highway in his honor on Monday, April 12. The bill was passed on a unanimous vote of […]

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Rollover crash scatters cattle across 299E

LASSEN COUNTY — CHP and other emergency personnel remain at the scene of a rollover traffic accident involving a tractor-trailer combo that overturned while transporting cattle this morning, Friday, Dec. 6. The accident happened along SR-299E, near Six-Mile Corner, between the communities of Bieber and Adin. Although the driver of the big-rig was reportedly not seriously injured in the crash, […]

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BREAKING: Officials headed to rollover crash, car submerged, in Poison Lake

UPDATED: Sunday, May 5, 11:15 a.m. LASSEN COUNTY —  CHP and other rescue personnel have arrived at the scene of this morning’s rollover crash involving a car that crashed into Lassen County’s Poison Lake and came to rest upside down and partially submerged. According to a CHP incident log and official radio traffic, the first arriving CHP personnel  found all […]

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One injured in 299E “T-Bone” crash in Lassen County

One person sustained minor injuries this morning after a pickup truck pulled out onto Highway 299E and was struck broadside by a vehicle that had been traveling along the rural, two-lane highway. The accident happened just east of mile marker 21.00, between the unincorporated communities of Beiber and Juniper Junction, in Lassen County. The crash was just one of three […]

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