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Here’s a feel-good story to put a smile on your face. A highway patrol officer rescued an adorable fawn from a wildfire in Northern California, and the photos snapped on the occasion have gone viral.
Perhaps the best part of the story is that California Highway Patrol Sgt. David Fawson says that his gesture is what “any one of us would have done.” Several patrol cruisers had been dispatched to aid Cal Fire officers in their mission, rescuing people and animals from a fire in Carr, north of San Francisco.
Fawson tells the media, as cited by the NY Times, that he took the fawn when Cal Fire officers asked him if he could help them out. He and his partner drove away from the danger area, and the fawn sat on Fawson’s lap in the patrol car and licked his neck.
“We were driving through an active fire, when Cal Fire said, ‘Can you take a deer out here for us?’ I held it in my lap as we drove out. It stayed right by me,” he recalls. “When it tried to nurse on one of my fingers, I thought, ‘This is truly a young baby.’”
His partner took photos of the adorable encounter because he wanted to have something nice to show his kids when he got back home. They were also posted on social media, where they went viral almost immediately.
Fawson says he didn’t expect this kind of public outpouring of love and support, especially since he did what any other man or woman, uniform or not, would have done. Still, he’s being praised for going beyond the call of duty.
The fawn was eventually handed over to Haven Wild Care’s fawn rescue program. It was named Carra, after the fire it survived and she will be ok.
Fawson tells the media, as cited by the NY Times, that he took the fawn when Cal Fire officers asked him if he could help them out. He and his partner drove away from the danger area, and the fawn sat on Fawson’s lap in the patrol car and licked his neck.
“We were driving through an active fire, when Cal Fire said, ‘Can you take a deer out here for us?’ I held it in my lap as we drove out. It stayed right by me,” he recalls. “When it tried to nurse on one of my fingers, I thought, ‘This is truly a young baby.’”
His partner took photos of the adorable encounter because he wanted to have something nice to show his kids when he got back home. They were also posted on social media, where they went viral almost immediately.
Fawson says he didn’t expect this kind of public outpouring of love and support, especially since he did what any other man or woman, uniform or not, would have done. Still, he’s being praised for going beyond the call of duty.
The fawn was eventually handed over to Haven Wild Care’s fawn rescue program. It was named Carra, after the fire it survived and she will be ok.
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