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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — A fire station in northern California was burglarized while firefighters were out battling the raging Morgan Fire near Mount Diablo this weekend.
"Soon as I looked around, something didn't look right," JuDon Cherry, one of the station's firefighters, told reporters. "I looked for my iPad. It was missing, my bag had been rummaged through; they took my watch and my wedding ring."
Firefighters returned to Station No. 7 in Walnut Creek on Monday after battling the wildland fire to find iPads, watches, cash and two wedding rings gone, according to Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman Steve Aubert.
"Are you serious? Somebody actually came into the fire station and stole from us after we helped people?" Cherry said. "It's devastating."
It’s hard to understand how someone could do this while the firemen worked to save homes.
“Once you go out there and you protect other people's property and come back and find your own was broken into, it's kind of hard to take," Cherry said.
“We're going to be evaluating the security at each of the stations to provide a better level of security for the department's resources and personnel,†Aubert said.
Police are now looking for the person or people who did it.
"Soon as I looked around, something didn't look right," JuDon Cherry, one of the station's firefighters, told reporters. "I looked for my iPad. It was missing, my bag had been rummaged through; they took my watch and my wedding ring."
Firefighters returned to Station No. 7 in Walnut Creek on Monday after battling the wildland fire to find iPads, watches, cash and two wedding rings gone, according to Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman Steve Aubert.
"Are you serious? Somebody actually came into the fire station and stole from us after we helped people?" Cherry said. "It's devastating."
It’s hard to understand how someone could do this while the firemen worked to save homes.
“Once you go out there and you protect other people's property and come back and find your own was broken into, it's kind of hard to take," Cherry said.
“We're going to be evaluating the security at each of the stations to provide a better level of security for the department's resources and personnel,†Aubert said.
Police are now looking for the person or people who did it.
