Posted on 08/19/2009 5:21:15 PM PDT by george76
PALMER: Destructive thieves take everything that's not nailed down and then some at headquarters.
Daniel Skriloff, an Alaska wildfire fighter, had just come off the line, battling the oppressive heat and smoke of the 12,000-acre Hardluck Creek blaze near Fairbanks, when he got the bad news.
Back at the Palmer-based headquarters for the Pioneer Peak Hotshots, thieves -- as part of a storm of theft and destruction -- broke into and stole his Subaru Legacy from the gated parking lot.
"It sucks," said the third-year firefighter, who was back in Palmer dealing with insurance forms on Tuesday. "You name it, they took it."
The fury touched the headquarters from one end to the other. If it wasn't nailed down, the thieves used axes and crowbars to remove it. Nothing was too trivial to pass up. Pilot bread and peanut butter, backpacks and tents, moose antlers and iPods. All were loaded into stolen vehicles along with $5,000 fire pumps and $1,000 chain saws.
Nearly every one of the 20-some cars parked in the lot -- all belonging to the 40 or so firefighters tackling wildfires up north in the Interior -- had been pilfered. Five cars and trucks were stolen. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of fire-fighting equipment was looted.
As a final insult, they urinated on firefighters' personal clothes pulled out from their lockers.
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The kids literally put their lives on the line for the public and to come home to this situation is pretty disheartening
Too bad their hideouts wouldn’t catch fire and the firefighters just can’t get to them.
In Alaska no less. However I have read about gang problems in Fairbanks in recent years.
The thieves left their DNA
Could be eco’s ?
They peed on the clothes... DNA evidence now, should they be caught?
They never did find the bastards that burned down Sarah’s church Wasilla Bible Church, I wonder if somehow there is a connection
Or Indians/Eskimos with way too much time on their hands?
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.
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 ....
Well that’s good now we’ll see if anything gets done about it.
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.
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.
Still Palmer has no wheres near the crime most small towns in lower 48.
Did they even try?
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.
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.
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.
Excellent!
Good news and thanks for posting, I’d bet they’ll get all the names from these two turkeys.
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