Officer Paul C. Jarske was driving in snow-slush conditions when he lost control of his vehicle. Jarske’s patrol car skidded and left the highway, struck several obstructions then plunged into a creek, landing upside down. Officer Jarske was submerged in the water and drowned. The 47-vear-old officer was a 17-year veteran of the Patrol.

A California Highway Patrol officer, Gerald E. Dormaier, was killed after being struck by an oil tanker truck while trying to direct traffic around another tanker truck that had overturned on fog-shrouded State Highway 99.

The truck driver was booked on charges of vehicular manslaughter.

Officers said the accident occurred at 4:25 a.m. about 25 miles south of Bakersfield and a mile north of Mettler in the San Joaquin Valley, where heavy fog has caused several fatal accidents in recent weeks.

Dormaier, 44, of Bakersfield, a 14-year veteran of the CHP, died at Mercy Hospital in Bakersfield more than two hours after the accident.

Officers said a tanker truck had overturned and Dormaier and Officer Jerry Bean were setting up flares and directing traffic around the accident scene. Bean was not injured.

Officers said a truck driven by Bill Dunhue, 35, of Bakersfield, was traveling at “an excessive rate of speed for the conditions.” Dunhue was held at the Kern County Jail.

“Dormaier tried to wave down the approaching tanker truck, which slammed on its brakes, came in broadside and hit him and killed him,” a CHP spokesman said. “The visibility at the time was less than 50 feet. The fog was really dense.”

Traffic was blocked for almost two hours as authorities worked to clear the wreckage.

The accident occurred just north of the Grapevine, a twisting mountain pass on State 99.

Officer Dennis F. Webb, 30, was shot six times at close range by the man he stopped on December 24 because he fit the description of an armed robber who had held up a 7-Eleven market in nearby Sylmar about 90 minutes earlier.

The killer drove off in Webb’s black and white patrol car, abandoning it in the park about eight miles from the shooting scene.

Two fellow officers were enroute to back up Webb as he questioned the suspect when the gunfire erupted. They reached the fallen patrolman 90 seconds after his last radio transmission, but by that time the gunman was gone.

The officers carried Webb to the patrol car, rushed him to Holy Cross Hospital about a half mile away. Webb, married and a five-year veteran of the small San Fernando department, died in surgery at 5:50 a.m.

Webb had survived the ordeal of Vietnam and had been honorably discharged from the Armed Forces in 1975. He was currently a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve.

Sunnyvale Public Safety Department Officer Edward J. Roth, 44, was killed fighting a fire in “Silicon Valley” when a roof collapsed and he fell into the burning building.

Roth was one of a five-man crew fighting the three-alarm fire on the roof of the General Technology Co. building.

Roth, who was married and had two children, had been with the Public Safety Department for 15 years, working both as a policeman and fireman in the department in which employees rotate between police and fire assignments and often double on them.

Cause of the fire, which broke out at 10:45 a.m. is under investigation. Officer Gale Bate said the building was sued for assembling printed circuits and did not involve some of the exotic chemicals found in other blazes in the industry.

The fire was brought under control in 45 minutes by 40 firefighters.

Funeral services were conducted at the Garden Grove Community Church for police officer Michael Lloyd Rainford, 23, killed in a hit-and-run accident.

The young officer had stopped a car on the Harbor Boulevard onramp to the Garden Grove Freeway westbound, and was attempting to talk to the driver when struck by a second vehicle.

Rainford is the second Garden Grove police officer within five months to be killed in the line of duty.

He is survived by his pregnant wife, the former Lori Farmer; his mother, Lidia Rainford Richmond; his brothers, Paul and Philip, Garden Grove; sister, Cathy, San Francisco; foster brother, Jeff; and foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lambrecht, Garden Grove.

Rainford, despite cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the scene, was dead on arrival at Fountain Valley Community Hospital.

Police later arrested Ann Catherine Stallybrass, 42, on charges of felony drunken driving, felony hit and run and vehicular manslaughter.

At approximately 8:50 p.m. on October 23, 1980, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department helicopter crashed and burned in a vineyard located just north of River Road, ½ mile south of the Sonoma County Airport.

Both the pilot, Deputy Sheriff Brent Jameson and, co-pilot, Deputy Sheriff Bliss Magly, were killed instantly upon impact.

At approximately 7:30 p.m. on Thursday evening, the sheriff’s department helicopter had responded to assist in an earlier incident wherein a California Highway Patrol Officer had been shot at. The helicopter was summoned to assist in an area search of Ludwig Avenue as the suspect had fled into the rural countryside. The Highway Patrol Officer was not injured, and a short time later a suspect identified as Alfredo C. Fernandez, 23, was arrested and charged with attempted murder.

The helicopter was responding back to the Sonoma County Airport when the crash occurred.

Just before the crash, the helicopter crew had been in radio contact with the Sonoma County Airport Tower. The crash occurred only seconds later.

Jameson and his wife, Marcille, resided in Rincon Valley, Santa Rosa. After his death, Jameson’s wife gave birth to their daughter, Julie. He is also survived by his parents, Darol and Veva Jameson; brother, Stephen; and sister, Mary. His parents reside in Petaluma.

Jameson attended St. Vincent Elementary School, St. Vincent High School and graduated in 1968. He attended Santa Rosa Junior College and graduated from there with an Associate Arts degree in 1970. He also had attended the University of San Francisco.

His previous employers included: patrolman for Novato Police Department from July 1971 to July 1974; appointed as deputy sheriff on July 29, 1974 for Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department; resident deputy for the North Coast and Central Coast Area from 1975-1978; assigned to Main Office of the Sheriff’s Department Patrol Division from 1978-1979; relief helicopter observer from 1978-1979; chief observer (full time) effective February 24, 1979; received his advanced certificate from the California Peace Officers Standards and Training.

At approximately 8:50 p.m. on October 23, 1980, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department helicopter crashed and burned in a vineyard located just north of River Road, ½ mile south of the Sonoma County Airport.

Both the pilot, Deputy Sheriff Brent Jameson and, co-pilot, Deputy Sheriff Bliss Magly, were killed instantly upon impact.

At approximately 7:30 p.m. on Thursday evening, the sheriff’s department helicopter had responded to assist in an earlier incident wherein a California Highway Patrol Officer had been shot at. The helicopter was summoned to assist in an area search of Ludwig Avenue as the suspect had fled into the rural countryside. The Highway Patrol Officer was not injured, and a short time later a suspect identified as Alfredo C. Fernandez, 23, was arrested and charged with attempted murder.

The helicopter was responding back to the Sonoma County Airport when the crash occurred.

Just before the crash, the helicopter crew had been in radio contact with the Sonoma County Airport Tower. The crash occurred only seconds later.

Jameson and his wife, Marcille, resided in Rincon Valley, Santa Rosa. After his death, Jameson’s wife gave birth to their daughter, Julie. He is also survived by his parents, Darol and Veva Jameson; brother, Stephen; and sister, Mary. His parents reside in Petaluma.

Jameson attended St. Vincent Elementary School, St. Vincent High School and graduated in 1968. He attended Santa Rosa Junior College and graduated from there with an Associate Arts degree in 1970. He also had attended the University of San Francisco.

His previous employers included: patrolman for Novato Police Department from July 1971 to July 1974; appointed as deputy sheriff on July 29, 1974 for Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department; resident deputy for the North Coast and Central Coast Area from 1975-1978; assigned to Main Office of the Sheriff’s Department Patrol Division from 1978-1979; relief helicopter observer from 1978-1979; chief observer (full time) effective February 24, 1979; received his advanced certificate from the California Peace Officers Standards and Training.