Tehama County Sheriff Dave Kain says he was highly motivated to catch a thief who stole from a firefighter on Saturday. While fire personnel in the area to assist on the Park Fire were asleep in a Red Bluff hotel, somebody stole firefighting equipment from a truck in the parking lot. Deputies, Red Bluff Police and Cal-Fire Law Enforcement aggressively pursued the case and identified the suspect as Ramon Ruelas. He was arrested for grand theft after the equipment was recovered from a trailer parked in Red Bluff.
-Steve Gibson