Posted on 08/07/2022 8:46:15 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
A man who allegedly started multiple fires in Curry County, Oregon, was reportedly stopped by three law-abiding citizens.
Sheriff John Ward said his office received reports of an adult man “walking along the gravel road that leads towards Mariel Lodge and Rogue River Ranch, starting fires.”
The suspect was later identified as Trennon Smith of Veneta, Oregon.
Ward said he directed his employees to contact multiple other Sheriff’s offices, Coos Forest Patrol, the United States Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service and the Southwest Oregon Department of Forestry.
“All mentioned firefighting and law enforcement agencies responded to the area with a description of the suspect,” Ward said in the statement. “Information provided by a witness on scene there were two separate fires.
“Three helicopters were dispatched by ODF while ground crews including residents of the area quickly got the two fires under control and contained.”
In the end, however, it was not any of these agencies who initially stopped the suspect. Instead, Ward said it was three everyday citizens.
“Three local residents of that area located the suspect walking on the roadway near the fires and detained him until law enforcement arrived on scene,” the statement said.
“It was reported that the suspect became very combative with the three residents and had to be tied to a tree to subdue him.”
These three citizens deserve praise for their heroic actions. If they had not stopped Smith, he may have been able to start more fires before authorities arrived.
Due to the help from both these citizens and all the agencies who responded, Ward said the damage was minimal.
“The quick actions on getting the fires out most certainly averted a catastrophe and saved lives,” he said in the statement. “The total area burnt is less than one acre.”
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That happens from time to time. Such heroes are called vigilantes.
Awww, they should have chosen a dead tree, and lit one last fire. (I keed, mostly).
By the way, what was the "unforgettable lesson" the author mentioned?
The guy is lucky he didn’t get tied to a burning tree!
Did they or did they not catch him in the act? How do you prove it?
He told me I would not be allowed to tie someone up to a tree on my property.
Do not know who called the cops as I had yet to do such action.
It’s going to take more to be assured there will be no repeat performance.
RE: You don’t approve?
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I’m sorry you misunderstood.
I mean that is a good thing and they were heroes.
To me vigilante is not a bad thing as apparently others think, even in this cesspool of soft on crime woke pieces of crap who believe in the devolved “system of justice.”
Vigilante justice was not a slur from me.
Tree?
I thought you only had sagebrush in W TX!
;-)
They should have just shot him through the face with a shotgun and left him.
Dead arsonists light no more fires.
And Soros DA’s can’t let him out of jail to do more harm if he’s dead.
guy got off lucky....
I just found out that black criminals call it “He got Joan of Arc’ed” if someone is burned alive until he or she dies. Ofen for being a witness in a trial or a “snitch” or merely a shopkeeper for a person in general who gets in their way.
Not a good way to honor Saint Joan of Arc.
Is he another leftist starting fires so it can be blamed on climate change?
“That happens from time to time. Such heroes are called vigilantes”.
Are you really equating these three with vigilantes?
Note: I misunderstood also.
Please disregard my post 14 question.
Pictures?
Shinnery Oak? Only a Christmas Tree ornament could be hanged.
Though Shinnery Oak in W Texas makes up one of the largest forest in N America.
“Pictures?”
I didn’t see any.
Wow...very different from what I saw along I-40.
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