HARD TIMES FOR THE CHP
This morning a CHP officer was shot and killed during a traffic stop north of Modesto -- the fifth officer death in five months!Last evening in San Diego, a truck loaded with painting supplies and pressurized carbon-dioxide tanks ran over a mattress on the 94. A CHP officer pulled the driver over to tell him that the mattress he was dragging under his rig had caught fire. The entire truck was soon ablaze. Gas from the truck spread on the pavement toward the highway patrol cruiser and set the car on fire, too. Fortunately, no one was hurt.