Wildfire fighters return to find their base in Palmer looted

Anchorage Daily News ^ | August 19th, 2009 | MEGAN HOLLAND

[george76]

The kids literally put their lives on the line for the public and to come home to this situation is pretty disheartening

[mrsmel]

Too bad their hideouts wouldn’t catch fire and the firefighters just can’t get to them.

[cripplecreek]

In Alaska no less. However I have read about gang problems in Fairbanks in recent years.

[george76]

The thieves left their DNA

[george76]

Could be eco’s ?

[HiTech RedNeck]

They peed on the clothes... DNA evidence now, should they be caught?

[Sarah Barracuda]

They never did find the bastards that burned down Sarah’s church Wasilla Bible Church, I wonder if somehow there is a connection

[HiTech RedNeck]

Or Indians/Eskimos with way too much time on their hands?

[george76]

They stole a list of vehicles.

The FBI and state cops should be watching.

Not that many roads to escape on...unless they drive them into the bush.

[SkyDancer]

The minute any identifiable fire equipment is being up for sale ... or being used while a FF or someone who knows it’s fire equipment ... it’ll be like a stolen painting - put away and only looked at by the thief ....

[mrsmel]

Well that’s good now we’ll see if anything gets done about it.

[muawiyah]

The folks who started the church fire were undoubtedly "journalists" left behind by the MSM.

Limbaugh says 300 of that type of person were taken to the Palmer/Wasilla area to dig up dirt. Others say more, others less, but that's definitely too many MSM people to be working there.

Maybe they're getting desperate ~ start fire, watch fire, write story, send in, get paid, steal stuff from firefighters.

It's all a pattern. Time for ATF to go after these guys.

[jazusamo]

Very sad but I’d hate to be one of them when a judge sentences them. I doubt there’s much chance of them getting away with it, they left evidence and took identifiable stuff.

[Eska]

Not many Indians around Palmer. The ones that do live 25 miles further east, pretty good bunch; never do that kinda junk. Indians around Palmer jouned white society 75 years back. I had native neighbors when we lived in Sutton, they were realators, med emergency personel, and had their own businesses. Not like a village anymore in Mat-Su. Palmer has always drawn the criminals out from Anchorage. Once back in 70's, old Bob Boyd (now deceased) was town cop. 8-9 young hoodlums tried a mid day hold up of drug store. Boyd was walking down street, caught them in store, had shoot out. Killed several of them, wounded some others as they raan for their lives. Boyd showed me the scars where he was shot up in that incident; kinda cool guy that grew taters in Palmer.

Still Palmer has no wheres near the crime most small towns in lower 48.

[sionnsar]

They never did find the bastards that burned down Sarah’s church Wasilla Bible Church

Did they even try?

[pointsal]

The thieves left their DNA
The thieves left their DNA

That pee in the clothes....has a name and address attached. Don’t wash the stuff....save it for the prosecutor.

[HiTech RedNeck]

No broad brush condemnation of the early natives meant. (Are you an Inuit?) Just that I hear the government dependency situation that many reservation natives have gotten into has spelled trouble for both them and their neighbors. Alcoholism is sky high.

[ASOC]

UPDATE

Two of the asshats ae in custody - caught in Kenai driving the stolen cars - pair of brothers. Troopers are “interviewing” now. I suspect a lot more arrests by tomorrow.

MO sez meth heads or crackheads.

[jazusamo]

Excellent!

Good news and thanks for posting, I’d bet they’ll get all the names from these two turkeys.