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SoHum nurse honored as ‘hero’
HUMBOLDT COUNTY
Adelaida Yanez helped evacuate patients in 2020 August Complex fire
By Isabella Vanderheiden
ivanderheiden@times-standard.com
Adelaida Yanez was recently se-
lected as a 2021 Healthcare Hero
by the California Association of
Health Facilities for her invalu-
able nursing work at Jerold Phelps
Community Hospital in Garber-
ville.
DEVASTATING BLAZE
TEAMS CHECK DESTRUCTION
FROM NORCAL’S FAWN FIRE
Flames consume a house near Old Oregon Trail as the Fawn Fire burns north of Redding in Shasta County on Thursday.
The Associated Press
REDDING » Damage assessment
teams went out Saturday to de-
termine how many buildings
have burned in a forest fire that
has displaced thousands of res-
idents in Northern California.
Firefighters working in steep,
drought-stricken terrain hope
calmer weather over the next
few days will help as they battle
the Fawn Fire north of the city
of Redding.
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“There is no one more deserv-
ing of this privilege than Ade-
laida,” said hospital CEO Mat-
thew Rees. “She is one of the best
nurses I have ever worked with.
As I’ve gotten to know her over
the years, I have found she’s an
employee I can trust and I can
rely on. Patients and staff have
nothing but great things to say
A fire update said winds were
easing and temperatures were
dropping, with rain expected
to start Monday.
Initial assessments found that
at least 100 homes and other
structures had burned, officials
said. But that number was likely
to change as teams go street by
street surveying the destruction
in the Mountain Gate area.
Authorities have arrested a
30-year-old woman on suspi-
cion of starting the blaze that
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The Healthcare Hero Award
is designed to recognize individ-
uals for their outstanding con-
tributions to the skilled nursing
profession during a public health
emergency,” according to the Cal-
ifornia Association of Health Fa-
cilities.
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erupted Wednesday and grew
explosively in hot and gusty
weather in the region.
Alexandra Souverneva was
charged Friday with felony ar-
son to wildland with an en-
hancement because of a de-
clared state of emergency in Cal-
ifornia, Shasta County District
Attorney Stephanie Bridgett
said.
The Palo Alto woman also
is being investigated to see
if she’s started other fires in
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Jerold Phelps
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was selected
for the 2021
Healthcare
Hero award.
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POLITICS
Panel debate
$3.5T bill,
crunch time
for agenda
By Alan Fram
The Associated Press
WASH I NGTON » D emo c r a t s
pushed a $3.5 trillion, 10-year
bill strengthening social safety
net and climate programs to-
ward House Budget Committee
approval Saturday, while party
leaders hunted behind the scenes
for compromises to resolve inter-
nal divisions and, they hoped, al-
low the sprawling package’s even-
tual passage by Congress.
Approval by the Democratic-
dominated panel, meeting vir-
tually, was assured. Passage
would mark a necessary but mi-
nor checking of a procedural box
for Democrats by edging it a step
closer to debate by the full House.
Under budget rules, the commit-
tee wasn’t even allowed to sig-
nificantly amend the 2,465-page
measure, the product of 13 other
House committees.
The more important work has
been happening in an opaque pro-
cession of mostly unannounced
phone calls, meetings and other
BIDEN » PAGE 3
ETHAN SWOPE — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shasta County and throughout
the state, Bridgett said. It wasn’t
immediately known if she has
an attorney who could speak on
her behalf.
The Fawn Fire has charred
nearly 12 square miles of heavy J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE — THE ASSOCIATED
timber and was 10% contained, PRESS FILE
according to the California De- House Budget Committee Chair
partment of Forestry and Fire John Yarmuth, D-Ky., joined at left
Protection. by House Intelligence Committee
Nearly 2,000 residents were Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif.,
under mandatory evacuation talks to reporters at the Capitol in
FIRE » PAGE 3 Washington.
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