REMINDER/Nation's First Firefighters Retreat and Year-Round Burn Camp for Children Gets Underway with Agreement Between The Northern California Burn Foundation and Sierra Pacific Industries.

News & Assignment Editors

REMINDER...for Aug. 2 (Friday)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

When:   Friday, August 2, 2002
        11 AM

Where:  Redding Convention Center
        700 Auditorium Drive
        Redding, CA
        Directions: I-5 North to 299 West (downtown Redding) to
        Auditorium Drive/Park Marina Drive Exit. Take a right onto
        Auditorium Drive and the convention parking lot will be on
        your left.

Who:    Ed Ballantine, executive director, Northern California Burn
        Foundation
        A.A. "Red" Emmerson, president, Sierra Pacific Industries
        Michael J. Damon, Red Bluff Fire Chief

        Invited Guests: Gov. Gray Davis, Sen. Diane Feinstein,
        Sen. Barbara Boxer, Rep. Wally Herger, State Sen.
        Maurice Johannessen, Assemblyman Dick Dickerson

What:   In what will be the nation's first retreat for traumatized
        firefighters and emergency responders, Sierra Pacific
        Industries and the Northern California Burn Foundation will
        reveal details of plans for establishing a retreat for
        emergency personnel and a year-round camp for burn surviving
        children on 50 acres near Lassen Park in Shasta County.

Visuals:  Uniformed firefighters, police officers, burn surviving
          children and their parents will provide foreground to a
          fleet of fire trucks, police cars and other emergency
          vehicles.

          Map of selected area and artists rendering of facility and
          map of area will be available to news media.