Showing posts with label US Forest Service. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Forest Service. Show all posts

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Forest Ranger Steps Up For Homeless Veteran With Puppies

Forest ranger helps homeless veteran caring for litter of puppies
FOX 43
NOVEMBER 20, 2014

A litter of German Shepard puppies owned by a homeless veteran and his wife were all staying in a tent in Perry County, until Tuscarora state forest ranger Steve Shaffer came by to check in on them.

Shaffer’s colleague Stephen Wacker, who is an assistant forest manager, said Shaffer “wanted to find out what the situation was and if they needed some help and obviously the change in the weather was pretty significant and a factor for them.”

With temperatures declining by the day Shaffer decided to post a Facebook message asking for help, which got more than six thousand shares. “Facebook does sort of take a life of its own. You get a story that resonates with people and gets shared and spreads around the world literally in minutes and in this case it did that very well,” said Wacker.
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Monday, August 31, 2009

Wildfire with 'mind of its own' doubles in size

Wildfire with 'mind of its own' doubles in size
A fast-moving wildfire more than doubled in size on Monday and has burned through 164 square miles in Southern California since it started. Fire officials ordered mandatory evacuations for residents of 10,000 homes, and five people who refused to evacuate were trapped by the fire. The blaze "has a mind of its own," U.S. Forest Service official Mike Dietrich said. full story
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

US Forest Service officer killed during shooting spree

Officer, Two Others Dead In Shooting Spree
Man Who Shot Female Officer Killed By Police

POSTED: 5:26 pm PDT September 20, 2008

SEQUIM, Wash. -- A traffic stop in the woods led to the shooting death of a U.S. Forest Service officer, a shootout in which a fugitive was killed and the discovery of a third gunshot victim at the home of the owner of a pickup truck he was driving, the Washington State Patrol said.

The FBI was investigating the shooting of USFS Officer Kristine Fairbanks, 51, a certified canine officer with 15 years in the forest service, and the other shootings in the Sequim area were being investigated by the patrol and Clallam County sheriff's deputies, state Trooper Krista D. Hedstrom told The Associated Press early Sunday.

Shawn M. Roe, 36, whose last known address was in Everett and before that in Shelton, had three handguns and fired at least one shot before he died in a shootout with two deputies at a convenience store, Hedstrom said.

Roe was a convicted felon with "an active criminal history" and was supposed to be under state Corrections Department supervision but details were not immediately available and he apparently was not being sought on any warrant, she added.
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