moved to downtown grass down to a six westminster retired in two thousand and six california department of forestry and fire protection unit chief for nevada placer and uber counties is uniquely qualified to help develop joint powers agreements with other departments it's time to take a hard look at it he said more formally consolidated the operations of the grass valley nevada city and county consolidated fire departments i think the whole attitude has changed the word out said the issue now is not so much territorial but who can provide the best service at the least cost to taxpayers three departments now following a consensus model stead of more formal operational plans marcus said he also a plot of its decision to consider a career but for the position he's a heck of a catch he is a principled driven leader he just does the right thing and he works very hard said marcus whose last date is july twenty fifth clear budget proposal contract limousine to nine hundred fifty hours a year because he is a retired state employee who collects in about six months claire but who moved to new granite county nine hundred eighty three worked for cal fire for thirty five years before he retired after his retirement he worked for fifteen months of the fire chief from california where he tackled organizational issues not at all comfortable with fires i think that they're all are doing a great job but the danger is our firefighters get stretched thin the government said a lot of them are working overtime and they stay up there for more than twelve hours sometimes twenty four hours thirty six hours even more so we have to be very careful they get enough sleep and they get enough rest governor and had a federal emergency management agency david paulson plan to visit big sur on wednesday for a briefing in firefighting efforts and hard hit re governor was expected to announce an executive order wednesday that would waive plate replacement fees for driver's license and other critical documents that fire victims may have lost in places the water also aims to accelerate debris removal and repair environmental damage by cutting red tape the governor's office said this is the first time since one nine hundred seventy seven the california national guard troops have been sent to the fire lines however guard troops have helped in traffic control and other duties since the air national guard units have already been assisting park ride efforts in california and elsewhere this summer drought high temperatures and lightning storms have contributed to more than six hundred eighty square miles of land being charred state wide in the past two weeks blazes have destroyed sixty homes and other buildings was threatened thousands more according to the california department of forestry and fire protection federal fire managers predict an increase in severe wild fire activity in northern california through october due to on usually hot dry weather and scant rain the national interagency fire center headquartered in boise idaho issued a two thousand and eight wildfire outlook on tuesday  level five its highest a warning that has major fires that have the potential to exhaust firefighting resources it's the second earliest date the agency he has reached level five since ninety nine california has endured the worst of the fires so far this year raising from the western edge of the sierra nevada to coastal mountains near big sur there created a smoky haze so it's die from it some doctors in san joaquin valley say they're waiting rooms have been crowded with patients struggling to breathe in the big serve region potteries national force about two hundred people walk along the roughly fifteen mile stretch of highway one were ordered to leave their homes and businesses evacuation orders also remained in place for our friends and it was seventy five homes who were forced to leave the region last week extension of los padres forced north of santa barbara also prompted mandatory evacuations as wind to thirty five miles per hour pushed flames towards homes in the foothills of the san inez mountains officials said the fire had burned nearly one hundred acres of heavy brush by wednesday morning santa barbara county fire captain the light just said about forty homes were evacuated the sequoia national forest used to bakersfield crews struggled to contain an eleven thousand five hundred acre blaze the can smoke traveled up this deep canyons hampering their progress and residents of neighboring towns were ordered to evacuate even without the blazes the farming towns and subdivisions dotting the valley are typically each routed in a layer of smog during the summer but airborne ash from places caused such a spike in air pollution over the weekend that meteorologist sean ferreyra said it took his friends the way i went and bought a mask because my lungs were not happy senior air quality specialist of the san joaquin air pollution control district what we are experiencing is out of historical norms are waiting rooms are full of people with sore throats e g eyes and sniffles said kevin hamilton respiratory therap with sequoia community health center in fresno meanwhile officials in arizona said wednesday the wildfire that forced the evacuation of five hundred twenty people from the historic mining town of crown king was no longer directly threatening the mountain communities towns or homes nearby course the base but dry windy weather means the threat to homes could return he said the blaze near ground morning covered seventy two hundred acres of forest and brush that was just five percent christopher's old world deli catering company has brought its delicious food and service downtown to grass valley you like desserts army u s military has reportedly deployed some of the most sophisticated spy technologies including advanced satellites to monitor the movements of iraqi forces the technology is normally used only to spy on forces deemed usa adversaries spy and also report increase after u s officials were caught off guard by an iraqi deployment in bosnia earlier this year the new york times has revealed military trainers at guantanamo bay based an entire interrogation klassen chinese techniques used on u s prisoners during the korean war techniques have long been considered forms of torture including sleep deprivation prolonged constant exposure semi starvation exploitation rooms some of the intended effects makes pentagon is coming under criticism for considering a plan to ship deadly chemical weapons across the state lines in at least four states in a report released last week the pentagon says it will likely be unable to meet the pledge to destroy chemical weapons by the year twenty seventeen unless it's allowed to move nerve agents and mustard gas to additional sites lawmakers and watchdog groups say the proposal could endanger safety craig williams of the chemical weapons working group said it's shocking and irresponsible for pentagon to even propose to shift large volume of weapons of mass destruction across the highways or united states considering the risk an atmosphere of terrorist threats in israel at least four people killed and dozens wounded earlier today when a palestinian man plowed a bulldozer into israel bus in jerusalem and israeli police officer shot and killed the driver of the bulldozer had left a construction site and driven against traffic on a busy main road peruvian government has recalled an ambassador to bolivia after bolivian president evo morales accused of hosting a secret u s military base in a news conference caribbean president alan garcia dismissed mirallas his comments and accused him of interference of prove sovereignty he also said peru is a sovereign important country it's a big country in the world and so we can't stand idly by an outsider takes the liberty of provoking our country let alone from the defended his criticism of the u s military bases or alice said i have personally it's just what is like to live with military u s military base north american soldiers who are armed were in uniforms who instruct our armed forces who instructed national p participate in repressions to participate in massacres i have to share the experience of my latin american brothers it is an obligation of those who defend dignity tensions between peru and bolivia have escalated sense careers signed a so called free trade agreement with the u s last year in mexico controversy has erupted over the release of two police training videos showing officers practicing techniques critics say amounts to american accent appeared in a video giving instructions to officers another video shows a man having water squirted up his nostrils and shoved into a hole said to be full of rastan faeces the video release comes as u s lawmakers are mulling a massive aid package and has been partially delayed her human rights concern back in united states treatment of psychiatric patients is coming under new scrutiny following big release of surveillance video showing a mentally ill woman dying in a psychiatric emergency room after being left  woman as man green has shown toppling into her knees before collapsing on her face a full hour passes before she is attended to by passing hospital employees and found to have died kings county hospital officials have also been accused of altering green's medical records to downplay her death beth her heroes of new york civil liberties union criticized the hospital also said we are absolutely appalled to receive medical documentation kept in your corns with new york state law that is completely contradicted on the campaign trail senator the rock hussein obama is proposing an expanded white house program funding face basically to conduct social services on tuesday obama unveiled a plan for four hundred million dollars counsel for sleeping under furniture and at nine thirty nine a m a man from doing a block of dorset got reported mentally disabled brother was having difficulty breathing due to the smoky air prison was referred to the california department of forestry and fire protection in nevada county sheriff's office on monday seven thirty am a caller from twenty three thousand block a st helena drive reported to garden and front yard had said he believed the tenants would try to gain access to his property again and at nine forty nine a m a woman from the thirteen thousand block appeared downright reported a pit bull terrier had come after her she said an off duty officer had fired fire a shot county sheriff's office that how benefits could survive a twenty foot fall infant was taken to the u c davis medical center by air ambulance her condition could not be confirmed as here her name was kept confidential the mother of the child had been had put her down for a nap in a bed in your room was positioned a little too close to the windows i love our said baby woke up crawled to the window and leaned on the screen which gave way she fell out landed on top of a swamp cooler right below the window then fire department responded to the call rescue workers found a few bruises on baby stomach and chest area where they examined her on the seat clements and she seemed ok clinton said the bones of the infant are more flexible and less brittle than those of adults their bones can take more impact clinton said he'd never seen an occurrence like this before it's a very rare accident one that does not happen every day