News From Around The County
BURNEY, Calif. — California Highway Patrol has confirmed a big-rig driver died while traveling on a remote dirt logging road in the Intermountain area near Burney, about ten miles south of SR-299E early this morning. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: Family heirlooms lost in Burney fire that destroyed coop, shed UPDATE: Suspect dead, Walmart reopened, video emerges, after “wild” Redding crime […]
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UPDATED: Tuesday, June 23, 3:20 p.m. See Original Story below. BURNEY, Calif. — A battalion chief at the scene of a small vegetation fire burning off Tamarack Rd. in Burney updated at 3:08 p.m., that the fire had been knocked down and cancelled all other incoming firefighters and apparatus. The official reported that some firefighters already at the location would […]
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CORRECTION: Early reports and a CHP incident log indicated the airlifted victim was transported by Mercy Air Ambulance; however, sources familiar with the investigation say that SEMSA Air 2 from Adin was the helicopter that transported female driver to Mercy Medical Center in Redding. BURNEY — Two Burney locals were injured, including one who was life-flighted with serious injuries, after […]
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BURNEY — Detectives from the Shasta County Sheriff’s Major Crimes Unit are seeking information and asking for the public’s help after a forester located a human skull about three weeks ago. The skull was found in a wooded area off Tamarack Road, south of Highway 299 East, in Burney. Officials have not yet specified if the skull was that of a male or female […]
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