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CAL Fire Butte County says Measure H helped fund staffing adjustments.

Cal Fire Butte County says Measure H helped with staffing adjustments. Also, the Oroville City Council has sent a letter supporting legislation to permit winter firework sales in California, and California workers now have expanded paid sick leave benefits in the new year.

Representatives from California State Parks said they are still searching for a suspect and are asking members of the public to share any information.

Today marks six years since the devastating Camp Fire. NSPR has been speaking with those working in recovery. Today we hear from Bruce Yerman, Director of Operations for the Camp Fire Collaborative. Also, at 11:08 a.m. NSPR will be joining the community for a moment of silence for survivors of the fire and the 85 people who lost their lives. And, we get an update on where ballots are in being processed in Butte County.

Temperatures are starting to heat up again in the North State after a brief respite last week. Also, crews will be doing a routine inspection of the Oroville Dam spillway, and Cal Fire has arrested one of its employees for setting several small wildfires in Northern California.

Cal Fire says fire suppression efforts will continue in the area today.

Several weeks of county-led meetings are giving communities a say in how new evacuation plans might be improved.

A month after forcibly removing unhoused people from a large encampment at Depot Park, the city of Chico issued notices of enforcement to those camping along sections of Big Chico Creek and the Lindo Channel. Also, a major sweep of 24 unlicensed grows in Siskiyou County netted more than 8,000 pounds of marijuana with a street value exceeding $68 million earlier this summer, and Cal Fire will conduct a controlled burn today in Redding, Igo and Cottonwood.

A Butte County ordinance that allows Bear Fire survivors to camp on their properties expires at the end of the year leaving some living in RVs on their land worried they’ll be evicted soon. Also, the Chico City Council is sick of abandoned shopping carts so they’ve proposed a new city ordinance declaring them a nuisance, and COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are increasing in Butte and Shasta counties.

Butte County officials recently voiced skepticism on a project that would bring more than 70 early warning sirens to the county. Also, California State University students could see yearly tuition increases of 6% for the next five years, and artificial intelligence is being used to spot fire ignitions.