Kenn Fisher and Bubbles Meadows were asleep in their home behind Richard Lake and Associates Bookkeeping office when a loud explosion from their garage below them woke them up at approximately 2:30 a.m.

The couple ran out and down the stairs to find their garage door had been blown completely off the building and was against their pickup. Fire was coming out of the garage.
Bubbles ran upstairs and managed to get her cell phone and return before the fire rolled up and started the second story home on fire.
Firefigters from Burney were un the scene in less than five minutes followed by Cal Fire engines, but the home was fully involved in flames.
Fire Chief Ray Barber says the cause is still under investigation.
The family lost all of their possessions including two pickups, a car and a boat.
Barber estimates the loss to be $200,000 for the building, $30,000 for contents, $40,000 for the pickups and $10,000 for the boat.

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The Burney Water District’s Board and it’s employees announced Thursday night that they had agreed to agree on a two year contract.
Following a closed session, the board announced that the two sides had reached agreement on the proposals both sides felt were important and had been sticking points.
While the actual wording will take a couple of weeks to finalize and the other issues resolved, the two sides agreed to switching the employees health insurance from the district’s current carrier to the Union’s Insurance.
The district will pay the $816 premium and that figure will be the cap.
The district will reduce the amount the employee’s contribution to their retirement over the two years.
They also agreed to allow the wording the board wanted to its management rights in the district’s lay-off policy.
No agreement has been reached on a flex alternative work schedule and some other non-economic issues, primarily changes in the personnel manual.
The Union also said they would drop the labor complaints involving negotiations, but would have to confer with employees regarding charges which involved employees.
“We’ve taken the noise off the table,” Management’s Chief Negotiator Willy Rodriquez says.
Maggie Campbell, Chief Negotiator for the Union could not be reached for comment.

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REDDING — Kristi Lyn Lunbery, 41, of Burney was booked into Shasta County Jail the afternoon of August 25, transferred from prison to reportedly be tried again for the 1992 murder of her husband Charlie Bateson at their home in Burney.
Lunbery confessed in 2001 during a lengthy interrogation by Shasta County Sheriff’s Major Crime detectives. She later recanted her confession but was sentenced to 19-years to life.
A Panel of three judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction May 25.
The panel found that Lunbery had incompetent counsel representing her because they failed to present testimony from an expert who would possibly have explained why Lunbery would confess to a crime she didn’t commit, and found that the judge violated both the 6th and 14th amendment to the United States Constitution when he refused to allow testimony from individuals who could have testified that the crime was committed by another individual.
The State and County had the option of having the case presented to the entire 9th circuit Court of Appeals, petition the Supreme Court of the United States to review the case or return it to the Shasta County for re-trial. District attorney said he would have to study the case to see if he was going to retry it if the state declined to go forward with it.
Lunbery’s attorney was unable to attend initial court proceedings Thursday. Public defenders appeared with her in a brief court proceeding which was continued to Monday afternoon.