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May 8, 2014
Prom surprise
Photos by Greg Farrar
When close friends are happy to get involved, it’s easy to realize that two Mount Si High School seniors must be a really special couple, as Gavin Treglown plotted a fun way to ask Christina Fischer to be his date for their upcoming prom. Treglown asked 16 friends from the Mount Si Band to set up May 1 on the amphitheater stage at Snoqualmie Point Park and play the 1960’s song ‘Hey Baby (I Wanna Know If You Would Be My Girl),’ and for two of her friends to bring her to the park supposedly for a picnic. ‘We’re going to have so much fun! He’s the best,’ Fischer said after she heard the band, came down the hill, saw the poster, boyfriend and bouquet, jumped into Treglown’s arms and said, ‘Yes.’
Pet oxygen masks help firefighters save man’s best friend Eastside Fire & Rescue rigs, which operate out of the North Bend and Wilderness Rim Fire Departments, are now carrying pet oxygen mask kits. The first responder consortium recently received 15 of the specialty kits from Invisible Fence’s Project Breathe program. Invisible Fence, makers of an electronic fence system that trains animals to stay in yards, created the Project Breathe pro-
gram to equip every fire station in the United States and Canada with the pet-friendly oxygen masks. These masks make it easier for firefighters to give oxygen to pets suffering from smoke inhalation when they are rescued from fires. Invisible Fence has donated more than 10,000 pet oxygen masks to fire stations all over the U.S. and Canada throughout
the life of the program. Reports indicate more than 120 pets have been saved by the donated masks so far. Most recently the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported that a dog was saved in March during a fire. “When a family suffers the tragedy of a fire, lives are turned upside down,” said Albert Lee, director of Invisible Fence. “Pets are valued family members, so
we want families to know that their pet can be cared for if tragedy strikes.” “We realize that humans are the first-priority, but in many cases, pets can be saved if firefighters have the right equipment,” said Lee. “Project Breathe program is simply a way of giving firefighters the tools necessary to save pets’ lives.” Although the number of pets that die in fires is not an official
statistic kept by the U.S. Fire See MASK, Page 7 Prsrt Std U.S. Postage PAID Kent, WA Permit No. 71 POSTAL CUSTOMER