On 11/26/2020 at 12:28 p.m. Humboldt Bay Fire was dispatched to a structure fire in the 1400 Block of C
Street.
First arriving fire units found heavy smoke coming from the second floor of a two-story residential
structure. A second alarm was requested due to the size and construction type of the structure. Balloon-frame
construction allows fire to spread through concealed spaces quickly.
Fire personnel attacked the fire and searched the structure for any occupants that might still be inside. All
occupants had self-evacuated and were located outside. One of the occupants was found to have minor
injuries and was evaluated by fire personnel. The occupant declined further treatment.
Additional arriving units ventilated the structure as interior crews fought the fire. Eureka Police responded to
assist as initial fire units were being hindered by traffic flow in the area. The immediate area around the 1400
Block C Street was shut down for approximately one hour.
Fire crews controlled the fire in fifteen minutes. The first floor had significant smoke and water damage with
heavy fire damage on the second floor.
Damage was estimated at $100,000. The cause of the fire was
undetermined; however, an electrical malfunction is suspected at this time.
Humboldt Bay Fire wishes to thank Arcata Fire District, Samoa Fire District, and Loleta Fire District who
responded to Eureka to assist with coverage of Humboldt Bay Fire’s area.
The Red Cross was requested to
assist with housing of five displaced occupants.
Humboldt Bay Fire would like to remind people to avoid areas with emergency vehicles with flashing lights.
Several vehicles maneuvered around fire vehicles at the scene and jeopardized personnel who were engaged
in firefighting operations.
Jeweler Haylee Corliss at work. | Photo by James Adam Taylor.
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Most artists agree that pursuing art is risky. “The art world, it’s feast or famine,” one artist told the Outpost recently. “I can make $10,000 in one month, and then make nothing for the next two.”
That’s in normal times. From summer to winter, between holidays and tourism, business ebbs and flows, artists say, and that’s okay.
In 2020, things just sort of … ebb.
Traditionally in November, Humboldt’s artists work around the clock, painting and sculpting and crafting their inventory in preparation of the annual Artisans Crafts and Music Festival, hosted in early December at Redwood Acres Fairgrounds in Eureka. That three-day event — which features more than 100 artists and dozens of live music performances — obviously isn’t COVID-safe, and organizers cancelled the 41st festival in June.
Two regular vendors — painter Linda Parkinson, who has been going for 15 years, and potter Peggy Loudon, who has attended all 40 years — told the Outpost that the festival reliably generates enough revenue to cover their property taxes. Another vendor, jeweler Haylee Corliss, said she relies on it more for networking purposes, which are often profitable later.
Across mediums and levels of experience, Humboldt’s artists are confronting this shared challenge in different ways, but often, their outlook is the same. Uncertainty is part of the job, they say, and now is a time to slow down, live frugally and maybe build their inventory or channel this time into their art — all with faith that soon, things will flow once more.
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Any other year, watercolorist Linda Parkinson would be preparing her work for the Artisans Crafts and Music Festival right now. “It’s bizarre, because usually — I do all my own printing of my cards, my prints and stuff — and so I would be working constantly all day, wrapping and printing and all this stuff. And now I’m not, and it’s just kind of weird,” she told the Outpost.
“Blackburnian Warbler” by Linda Parkinson.
Parkinson’s wildlife watercolor paintings normally supply half of her income. But not this year. “I’m not making any money off my artwork right now,” she said. Parkinson planned to do eight shows up and down the West Coast this year, in addition to a few local festivals, including Godwit Days. She aims for one big show a month, with smaller showings at local businesses and events like Arts Arcata and Eureka’s Arts Alive. But COVID “took the wind out of the sails,” Parkinson said. Everything she planned to participate in was cancelled.
Though her artwork is posted on Parkinson’s website, she has found that people aren’t likely to buy flat artwork online. “They want something functional,” she said. “One of my sons has set up a website that features t-shirts and mugs and things like that with my artwork.” She’s letting him keep all the proceeds and is hopeful his efforts will take off.
Parkinson has a rental property and gardening business that are keeping her afloat right now. Still, “it’s been a big adjustment,” she said. Without the potential to sell, there’s not much motivating her to paint. “It gives me more time to do artwork, but at the same time, if I can’t sell it, there’s no point,” she said.
She misses the social aspect of Humboldt’s art scene, too. “A lot of the motivation is that, you know, you want to show your new work and have all your friends give you feedback. You know, it’s exciting. It’s fun,” Parkinson said. “It’s not that fun and exciting anymore to say, ‘Oh, look, I finished a painting,’ and I have no one to show but me.” She estimated that she used to dedicate 20 to 30 hours a week to painting, but now she’s “hardly putting in 10.”
But Parkinson said she values slowing down. She’s making art less, but when she is painting, she’s doing it for herself, which hasn’t been the case so much in the past. She’s been meeting that monthly show goal for 35 years. “Now I can just produce what I feel like because I want to, not because someone else wants to see me produce,” she said. “That’s a whole different ballpark.”
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For Haylee Corliss, a jeweler based in Eureka, the cancellation of Redwood Acres and other local fairs is less of a hit, but still “a bit concerning,” she told the Outpost during a phone interview. She typically vends at three to six fairs a year, but all she signed up for in 2020 have been cancelled. “I usually make some sales there, but that’s also where a lot of the community finds me,” she said. “People like to wait when they’re shopping for jewelry.”
Corliss is the owner of Ay Su Jewelry, a metalsmith and jeweling business that she started after learning the craft while living in Istanbul. Corliss sells her work at Whiplash Curve, a jewelry store in Eureka. Often, customers discover her at craft fairs and then come into the shop for custom work later, Corliss said.
Most of her sales come from walk-ins, especially from tourists during the summertime. A decrease in tourism is the most noticeable impact that COVID-19 has had on her business.
Necklace by jeweler Haylee Corliss.
Corliss added that many sales are thanks to word of mouth as well, which has decreased with fewer walk-ins and fewer face-to-face interactions in general. Corliss mentioned one sale she made before the pandemic, when a local business owner saw one of Corliss’s pieces — a necklace featuring two hands suspended and reaching for each other (inspired by Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam,” of course) — on a customer during a pilates class.
“This is kind of, I feel like, how our community sort of runs sometimes. And so I think that’s why COVID affects us so much. Because, you know, I got a sale through my customer who was doing pilates in a studio,” Corliss said. “I think we don’t even really know all the little ways in which we’re being affected.”
She’s in good spirits. Corliss loosely estimated that her sales were down by only 25 percent in the summer, when the shop was closed for several weeks and tourists weren’t visiting Humboldt when it was open. She predicted that sales might be half their usual amount this holiday season. She’s able to make sales via the storefront, which is now open to one customer at a time, and Corliss said she’s planning to start offering private viewing appointments in December.
When COVID restrictions arrived in Humboldt, Corliss adapted quickly. “As soon as we went into shelter-in-place in March, I just immediately knew that I needed to get everything onto my website,” Corliss said. She updated her site — something she’d been meaning to do for a while anyway — and started offering free local delivery to limit face-to-face interactions. “It’s a whole different ball game, online marketing,” Corliss said. “But I just feel like that’s where my focus is going to have to go if I’m going to survive.”
Corliss said she’s been pleasantly surprised with her sales this year, given the circumstances. “We have an amazing community in Humboldt County. I love everyone here, and I think that we support each other.”
Through her four years of business owning, Corliss has learned that uncertainty and flexibility are part of the job. “I try not to let the circumstances affect me too much,” she said. “I’m just gonna keep making jewelry, no matter what.”
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Locally, potter Peggy Loudon normally participates in “everything,” she said, including the North Country Fair, North Coast Open Studios and the Artisans Crafts and Music Festival, among others. Over decades of shaping porcelain, Loudon has built a national name for herself and is a regular vendor at a couple of annual fairs in the Bay Area. Loudon’s business depends on in-person interactions. “Now that that is not happening at all, it’s frankly quite scary,” Loudon said. “It’s quite a chunk of money that is not coming in.”
She isn’t eligible for unemployment, but she’s getting by. A primary source of income during COVID has come from classes Loudon teaches at Fire Arts in Arcata, but that business recently closed with Humboldt’s progression into the substantial (and now widespread) tier under the state’s “Blueprint for a Safer Economy.”
Between sitting in front of a computer screen and the required self-promotion, nothing about selling her work online on a platform like Etsy appeals to Loudon. Even so, she has been able to make sales here and there. Previous customers have contacted Loudon via her website, and she’s planning to set up an in-person, view-by-appointment system so that people can shop at a booth outside her studio. It’ll be the first time she’s done something like that in her career.
The county has risen with efforts to help artists, too. Over the weekend, Loudon set up a display for the Bayside Holiday Market, which will feature more than 20 local artists and run November 27 to December 19. She won’t need to be present for the event.
“It’s sobering,” Loudon said of her slimmed income. But pursuing the arts was a leap of faith when she started, Loudon said, and that faith still applies now. “I have faith that we will have a vaccine, this will shift, it will change, it will get better, and I will be able to sell my work,” she said.
Loudon misses the fairs and events that her long days in the studio lead up to. “I miss the camaraderie of the world of craft, of my buddies, you know, that we set up a booth and we come over and we trade and we’re all excited about what everybody else is doing. I miss that joy. The joy of sharing,” Loudon said. “It’s a lonely time.”
Although selling her work has changed, creating it has not. Being a potter is pretty isolating as it is, she said. Loudon misses the fairs, but it’s “kind of relaxing” to have the pressure of preparing for those events lifted. And she’s using the pandemic and the isolation as an opportunity to dream up new ideas and let them materialize. Being alone is like “a cauldron for creativity,” Loudon said.
“Art in Place” by Peggy Loudon.
One of her pandemic-inspired ideas was displayed recently at the Morris Graves Museum, during their “Art in Place” exhibit. “I did a homage to all the frontline workers, with anatomical hearts with words on them related to courage and bravery and resilience,” she said, adding that they’re a reminder that “we’re all in this together.”
Loudon’s process is the same as it’s always been, for the most part, and she’s eager to build up her inventory during this lull. She spends her days at the wheel in her studio, blasting music as she works. And Loudon really loves pottery. Over a 45-minute chat about how much COVID has upended her life and business, she steered it back to that positive outlook time and again. “I couldn’t not do it,” Loudon said of her career. She loves that she’s creating something tangible, and pottery continues to be her salvation.
“We are creative people in the world of craft,” she said. “People are making an effort to try and do the best that we can during this time.”
Shortly after this post went up, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office posted the following press release:
Honsal and Allman. | Photo courtesy HCSO.
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After 35 years in law enforcement, Tom Allman, retired Sheriff-Coroner of Mendocino County, is returning to his roots, ready for his next big assignment: the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Lost Coast Resident Deputy.
Allman begins his new role on Monday, November 30, ending nearly a decade-long vacancy of the position serving the Shelter Cove, Whitethorn and Mattole Valley communities. Allman, who split his childhood between North Carolina and Garberville, graduating from South Fork High School, is no stranger to the Lost Coast. Allman says, growing up his family made monthly visits to Shelter Cove and has made many friends there along the way.
“Since Tom Allman retired, I have been speaking to him about coming to work in Humboldt County.,” Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said. “Shelter Cove, the Lost Coast and the Mattole Valley need to have a resident deputy that can focus on community collaboration and problem solving. Tom’s roots run deep in Humboldt and he is going to make a great addition to my team.”
While his most recent job as Sheriff-Coroner kept him busy behind a desk, Allman has experience as a resident deputy and knows the unique responsibilities that come with the job. After becoming a peace officer in 1981, Allman transferred from the Fairfield Police Department to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, with his first assignment being the Laytonville Resident Deputy. Throughout the years, Allman rose through the ranks as Sergeant, Lieutenant and eventually Sheriff; during his career even completing a brief stint oversees as an International Peacekeeper for the United Nations in Kosovo.
However, despite having a long and decorated career, Allman said “the most fulfilling time of my career were the two years I spent in Laytonville as a resident deputy being a trusted problem solver. Out of everything I did, nothing was as fulfilling.”
Allman doesn’t take that trust lightly, recognizing the importance of mutual trust as the first step to solving problems and creating safer communities. He says building trust will be one of his first tasks in his new position.
“If a community doesn’t trust their law enforcement officer, chances are the law enforcement officer also doesn’t trust the community,” Allman said. “If a community knows their law enforcement officer by first name and trust him or her, hopefully that trust is going to work toward solving crimes and finding a solution.”
The second step to building a safer community, Allman says, is communication, something he has already begun with residents in the area through regular visits to the community prior to his appointment.
“Until we identify problems, we can’t work on solutions,” Allman said. “Communication problems can be like a blister; if you don’t take care of them, they will eventually pop. The quicker we get on them and address them, the quicker we can improve the quality of life.”
Allman says he believes improving the quality of life for the community is what it means to be “a good peacekeeper” and will bring an education-first approach of law enforcement to the Shelter Cove, Whitethorn and Mattole Valley communities.
“[Being a good peacekeeper] doesn’t mean going to work with the intention of just arresting someone or issuing a citation,” Allman said. “Those things may happen after other options are no longer viable.”
As resident deputy, Allman will be spending approximately four days a week on the Lost Coast, providing public safety services to residents in the Shelter Cove, Whitethorn and Mattole Valley communities. On days he is not assigned to work, coverage will be provided by Sheriff’s Deputies assigned to the Southern Humboldt area based out of the Garberville Substation.
The resident deputy position is funded through the County’s Measure Z Public Safety Sales Tax, with funding for the position earmarked in 2015 in the Sheriff’s Office first application to receive funds from the measure. Allman’s fulfillment of the position has been long-awaited by the Shelter Cove community.
“I think to many people in Shelter Cove having a resident deputy means a lot. Residents and business community members have been advocating for a Shelter Cove resident deputy for a long time,” said Justin Roberts, General Manager of the Shelter Cove Resort Improvement District No. 1. “Residents and businesses of Shelter Cove greatly appreciate the leadership of Sheriff Billy Honsal in his effort to secure a resident deputy for the community. “
Roberts says the community looks forward to “the opportunity to build a positive and community-oriented relationship with local law enforcement officers to effectively address and reduce crime in the Shelter Cove, Whitethorn and Mattole Valley.”
Allman says he is up for the task and is eager to begin meeting the needs of the Lost Coast, with his number one goal being to ensure the community will have coverage for years to come by finding “his replacement.” He offers a free lunch to anyone willing to take the job. Until then, Allman says he’s excited to come out of retirement and get back to work, helping improve the quality of life in Humboldt County.
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Not quite a year since retiring after 13 years as sheriff of Mendocino County, Tom Allman announced via Facebook on Wednesday that he’ll be rejoining the ranks of law enforcement just over the county line.
“I will be helping Humboldt County Sheriff Billy Honsal in a community which I loved as I was growing up,” Allman wrote. “Shelter Cove is my new assignment.”
In recent years, residents of Southern Humboldt’s remote communities have had to deal with law enforcement response times of 90 minutes or more, in part because the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has been chronically short-staffed.
“The views are fabulous, the fishing is great and the beaches are beautiful. The airport and golf course are nice and the deer assume that they own the golf course greens.”
Though many of the usual Thanksgiving festivities can’t happen this year due to the pandemic, our local meal-serving nonprofits have been working hard to make sure free dinners are still available to those in need. And while several groups — such as Arcata House Partnership, the Eureka Mission and the Betty Kwan Chinn Foundation — already handed out holiday meals earlier this week, there are still at least a couple of places you can still get your turkey and fixins on Thanksgiving Day.
Eureka
The St. Vincent de Paul Society will be hosting its usual free meal on Thanksgiving Day at the dining facility on 35 West Third Street in Eureka.
A volunteer told the Outpost today that the meal will be served from 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. or possibly later and will include turkey, yams, mashed potatoes, ham and salad.
Because of COVID restrictions, folks will receive their meal from volunteers at the window and will need to eat outdoors on Third Street.
Fortuna
The River Life Foundation will be hosting its annual Thanksgiving Day dinner at the Fortuna Veterans Hall — 1426 Main Street, Fortuna — from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Though the group will not be able to host an indoor seating, prepared meals will be available for drive-through style pickup and for delivery.
River Life volunteer Ginny Rose told the Outpost that meals will be prepacked in containers and that folks will get “a little bit of everything,” including turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, ham, green beans and your choice of pecan, apple, or pumpkin pie. If you’re planning to drive up, all you have to do is get in line and you wont need to get out of your
car. Walk-ups will also be welcome, Rose said, but folks will have to eat
outside because of COVID restrictions.
For those who can’t make it there in-person, the foundation will also deliver to anywhere in Fortuna, Rose said. All you have to do is call (707) 601-6526 to place your order by Thursday at 1:00 p.m.
Rose said that contact will be minimal and volunteers are taking all the necessary safety precautions, including wearing masks and gloves. “It’s the first time we’ve ever done it like this,” Rose told the Outpost. “So we’re expecting chaos.”
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If you know of another organization offering a free Thanksgiving meal, please email the information to news@lostcoastoutpost.com and we will add it to this post.
Emergency medical personnel responded to the scene and provided life saving efforts to the sole occupant of the vehicle, 34-year-old Shawn Ryan of Eureka. However, Mr. Ryan suffered major injuries as a result of the collision and succumbed to his injuries at the scene.
The Humboldt County Coroner’s office responded to the scene and subsequently made notification to the next of kin. A preliminary investigation by CHP revealed that Mr. Ryan was driving his 2002 GMC pickup westbound on SR-36 when he allowed the truck to travel off the road, overturn and collide with a tree. Mr. Ryan suffered fatal injuries as a result of this collision.
Impairment is being investigated as a contributing factor in this collision. The CHP Humboldt Area Office is continuing its investigation into this collision and asks anyone who may have information to contact the Humboldt Area CHP Office at 707-822-5981.
The property at 1296 11th Street in Arcata. The beige building on the left will hold the new datcenter. | Images from EdgeConnex presentation
The property at 1296 11th Street in Arcata — former site of Nilsen Feed Company — will soon be home to a major datacenter, connecting the town to a 10,000-mile-long transpacific fiber optic cable running between our coast and Singapore.
Earlier this year Virginia-based company EdgeConnex purchased the Arcata property and recently announced plans to turn one of the buildings into a datacenter. The center will serve as the terminal for two underground fiber optic lines, which will be installed by Colorado-based Vero Fiber Networks.
The plans are connected to Inyo Network’s Digital 299 Project, which aims to bring high-speed internet to portions of Northern California by way of fiber optic lines running from our coast to Redding. Last week, the Humboldt Bay Harbor District approved another important component of this plan, entering into a lease agreement with RTI Infrastructure to land undersea fiber optic cables at Marine Terminal II — the former pulp mill site — on the Samoa Peninsula. These cables will connect to a transpacific line, connecting the U.S. to Singapore.
Connecting to the cables in Samoa, Vero Networks plans to run fiber optic conduit along Route 255 into Arcata, Vero Chief Technology Officer Dave Jones explained during a virtual town hall meeting with the city last week. A second conduit will follow Old Arcata Road, connecting the datacenter to another line just east of Eureka. Both routes will be about 10 miles long, Jones said, with a portion of each running under the streets of Arcata.
During the virtual town hall, several community members asked the project heads about what these developments will mean for the town, with some asking if the city or the university will be given access to the conduit.
Jones said that the company’s goal is to eventually partner with other agencies, such as HSU, to provide them with connectivity. And though Vero generally only provides access to “high-bandwidth users” and does not provide residential service, Jones said that the company would like to partner with a service provider that could bring access to the local business and residents.
“We’re definitely open to that and, in fact, we are in active discussions with Humboldt County around identifying specific use cases and opportunities,” Jones said during the meeting.
Some community members also had questions about access to the datacenter technology. Sean McLaughlin of Access Humboldt expressed his excitement for the project and asked the EdgeConnex team if local internet service providers would have the option to rent space in the facility.
Chief Marketing Director for EdgeConnex Phillip Marangella said yes, adding that this will be a “colocation center” — a center where space, equipment and bandwidth are available for rental — and will have a “meet-me room” where local, regional, national and global networks can interconnect.
Some neighbors of the 11th Street site also had concerns about the potential noise, both from construction from the datacenter itself.
plans for the datacenter
Marangella said that construction for the datacenter will be minimal, with the company only planning to make a few additions to the existing building. Once the center is operational, Marangella said, it will be a “lights
out facility” — basically operating automatically — with almost no foot
traffic.
Project engineer Jack Eslea assured the public that the noise pollution will not be significant and will adhere to what is permitted by the city. “We definitely want to be good neighbors,” Eslea said during the meeting. “We plan to be there for the long haul and want to have a good relationship with everyone.
Construction on both projects is expected to begin in January, with plans for the datacenter to be operational by September 2021.
“We look forward to helping play a role in improving broadband throughout the region in the community going forward,” Jones said. “This is the first step in the impact we can have there improving connectivity.”
Ryan Anthony Tanner stands accused of murder, kidnapping, arson, burglary, carjacking and assault with a deadly weapon
During the preliminary hearing for murder suspect Ryan Anthony Tanner, eyewitness Christopher Champagne has testified under oath that he first watched Tanner cut Jason Garrett’s throat, then a few hours later shoot Garrett and his dog with an assault rifle.
But Champagne has also testified under oath about witnessing events that are difficult or impossible to believe.
On Tuesday, testifying under cross-examination by defense attorney Russ Clanton, Champagne recounted his visit to Tanner’s father’s house on Blue Slide Road on the day of Garrett’s murder. He hadn’t been in the house since he was a kid, and he now discovered a room transformed into a chamber of horrors.
In the room were eight king-sized beds, covered in a material similar to a school bus seat or an airport shuttle, Champagne recalled. In the corner, a queen-sized bed was made up with a hand-stitched down comforter. But above that bed he saw spattered blood, bone fragments and tissue “from whoever got shot.”
On three or four of the king-sized beds he saw spots of old, moldy blood. He thought someone had been raped there.
Champagne looked through an old notebook and its pages were smeared “with dots of meat or flesh.”
The windows in the house were tinted, so one could see out but not in. The curtains had been ripped down, apparently used to wipe up blood, then thrown into a wood stove. They were “half-way burnt,” Champagne recalled.
“Did you see anything else unusual?” Clanton asked.
“Yeah. It looked like I was going to be the next victim.”
He then went on to describe a battery and jumper cables, with a deteriorating human finger clamped in one of the cables. He said he showed Tanner and asked him, “Is this your finger?”
“He laughed and said, ‘You’re a sick son-of-a-bitch. I thought it was yours.’”
Along with the other suspicious items in the room, Champagne saw a device “set up for chopping flesh or limbs to put into the fire.”
It was in that house, Champagne said, that Tanner forced Garrett and him into a bathtub and killed Garrett and the dog with one shot. On Tuesday Champagne added some new details, saying at one point he managed to get the rifle away from Tanner. He also said the fatal bullet had grazed his upper right arm.
Another detail: Champagne believed law enforcement officers were lurking around the whole day. When they were at Tanner’s father’s house, he was able to see police cars — one Chevy and one Dodge — on the main road 20,000 feet away.
“I have really good vision,” he explained.
Tanner suspected Garrett — along with Champagne and many other people — of stealing from houses on the mountain. Earlier that day Tanner had discovered a substantial amount of his marijuana was missing.
Although Garrett was ultimately killed by a bullet, earlier in the day at another property Tanner had slit Garrett’s throat from ear-to-ear after Garrett spit in his face and told him “Fuck you.”
Champagne said blood was squirting from Garrett’s neck, and he could see his Adam’s apple “hanging out.”
Champagne used a piece of his shirt and some duct tape to wrap the wound. Then, he testified, the three went to Tanner’s house. Tanner’s marijuana trimmer Robert Norris was there, and according to Champagne, Norris and Garrett had a friendly chat.
They ate tacos, smoked cigarettes and weed, “laughed and chuckled,” watched a movie and got drunk.
As the cross-examination wore on, Champagne’s testimony got wilder.
He said he and Tanner drove to the top of Tanner’s property to bury Garrett and his dog. They drained about half the water from a 400-gallon tank, then managed to tip the tank over and release the remaining water. The plan was for a grave under the water tank. Tanner ordered Champagne to dig a hole “big enough for both of you.”
According to Champagne, he kept digging while Tanner walked down to his house, showered and changed his clothes. Then Champagne dug for two hours, watching from his hilltop perch while Tanner engaged in a firefight with numerous uniformed officers.
Tanner killed six officers, Champagne recalled. He saw Tanner build a sort of teepee, put the bodies inside and set it on fire.
Much of the testimony Tuesday was undoubtedly new information for the prosecutors, Deputy District Attorneys Whitney Timm and Jessica Acosta.
Champagne was scheduled to take the witness stand again this morning and to testify until at least noon and possibly beyond. Today is his third day of testifying.
The Outpost plans to resume coverage when the next witness is called.
Judge John Feeney is presiding over the hearing. Several days ago Feeney denied the defense motion to have Champagne withdrawn as a witness.
