Plumas County News

Chemical spill closes SPI mill, sends four to the hospital

Joshua Sebold
Staff Writer
11/4/2009

Firefighters resspond to chemical spill

Three Sierra Pacific Industries employees and one explosives contractor were injured Monday, Nov. 2, when a chemical leak occurred at SPI’s co-generation plant in Quincy.
The victims were exposed to chlorine gas when a truck driver making a delivery for Sierra Chemical hooked up to the wrong tank.

There are two tanks at the drop-off point. Quincy Fire Chief Robbie Cassou reported they are clearly marked and identified in plain language and with a universal number system known to people who work with chemicals.

Influenza update

11/4/2009

The first 200 doses of H1N1 nasal spray vaccine have arrived in Plumas County.
This first shipment of H1N1 will be reserved for household contacts or caregivers of infants younger than 6 months, and household contacts of pregnant women. The nasal spray vaccine is only for healthy people between 2 and 49 who are not pregnant.

A year after A&D closure, still a lack of services

Joshua Sebold
Staff Writer
11/4/2009

A year and a month since the closure of Plumas County’s Alcohol and Drug Department, the opinion of most prominent figures working with groups suffering from alcohol and drug problems seems to be relatively unanimous: services are less available for many people who need them.
The largest service gap is in the demographic of people who aren’t currently involved in the criminal justice, social services or mental health systems and can’t afford to pay for counseling or therapy.

County joins Maidu in quest for social justice

Alicia Knadler
Indian Valley Editor
11/4/2009

Last month Plumas County supervisors approved a partnership with the Maidu Summit Consortium, a group whose members seek to obtain Pacific Gas and Electric lands on the east shore of Lake Almanor, Butt and Humbug valleys.
“All of these lands were Maidu lands taken from Maidu people,” they wrote in a letter to Brian Morris of the Plumas County Flood Control and Water Conservation District. (The supervisors sit as the board of directors for the district.)

Bizarre Plumas murder makes America’s Most Wanted

Joshua Sebold
Staff Writer
11/4/2009

Plumas County will get another infamous hour in the limelight this Saturday, the latest in a string of less than uplifting TV moments.
Plumas has been on Chico and Reno news programs recently because of woes in the logging industry and tragic cases in the courtroom.

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