It was late at night when she was on the river, something Brett Eagan from the Butte County Sheriff's Search and Rescue team says is not a good idea. "Night time is just a bad time to go down the water. We wouldn't even launch our boats at night, particularly when the water level is a little lower."
Steel beam supports being used to build an overpass above Highway 149, just west of Highway 70, collapsed at about 7:15 a.m. today, crushing a FedEx truck on the roadway beneath.
Miraculously, the driver, Robert Sylvester, 45, of Chico only suffered a sprained ankle and minor cuts, and has already been released from Enloe Medical Center.
A Chico man faces criminal charges following a huge rescue effort Wednesday night in Upper Bidwell Park. Rescuers say they found 44-year-old Eric Cooper just after 7 p.m. drunk and belligerent near the creek at Bear Hole near the diversion dam. They went searching for Cooper after his girlfriend reported him overdue from a walk with this three dogs.
It is the first training of its kind for Butte County's Search and Rescue teams. Drill Coordinator John Maretti explained, "We normally have one or two very technical rescues and we spend a lot of time doing a lot of those. Today, we're doing a different type of scenario. A Katrina or disaster type scenario where there's multiple 30 people we'll be addressing at the same time."
It was a happy ending for three adventurers who found themselves stranded in a cabin in the Feather River Canyon area. Action News was there when the trio returned to civilization.
On Tuesday it took only four hours for rescue workers to find them. John Simola and Deneen Miland are from Butte County's ridge area, and Al Salguero is from San Jose. They were stranded for four days in a cabin in the snow near Inskip.