What It Takes To Stay: A Firefighters Account of How UPS Driver Don Gagnon Fought To Save Littlerock From Flames - Thurston Talk
Luckily for the town of Littlerock, UPS Driver Don Gagnon was making deliveries on September 8, 2020. That was the day a raging fire would threaten the community. “It takes a very special kind of person to do this,” says Captain Dyer of the West Thurston Regional Fire Authority.
As a mostly non-descript windstorm tickled the countryside around Littlerock, people didn’t think much of it. Everybody was aware of the blustery day but had little idea of what would come. Suddenly a transformer blew, sending sparks down onto dry material that lay ready to ignite after a hot summer with little rain.
There was nothing to be done, as one family sat in a restaurant watching the events unfold through their home surveillance system that connected to their phones. A quickly moving torrent, a juggernaut wall of smoke and flashing light that advanced with no mercy. Then the power went out, cutting off the feed coming from their home security cameras.
Luckily for the town of Littlerock, UPS Driver Don Gagnon was making deliveries on September 8, 2020. That was the day a raging fire would threaten the community. “It takes a very special kind of person to do this,” says Captain Dyer of the West Thurston Regional Fire Authority.
As a mostly non-descript windstorm tickled the countryside around Littlerock, people didn’t think much of it. Everybody was aware of the blustery day but had little idea of what would come. Suddenly a transformer blew, sending sparks down onto dry material that lay ready to ignite after a hot summer with little rain.
There was nothing to be done, as one family sat in a restaurant watching the events unfold through their home surveillance system that connected to their phones. A quickly moving torrent, a juggernaut wall of smoke and flashing light that advanced with no mercy. Then the power went out, cutting off the feed coming from their home security cameras.
