"Others just keep going."Īfter fires, many animal populations seem to bounce back, CDFW spokesman Peter Tira said. “(When released), some will run far enough away from you so you can’t re-catch them - then look back at you and snarl,” Stoker said. “Everyone’s worried if they’re going to be habituated (to humans),” Hunnicutt said, “but vets poke and prod them so much during exams, they can’t wait to get away.” While pets go home to their owners or are adopted into new homes, most wild animals able to fend for themselves are released into unburned territory as close as possible to the burn areas in which they were found, Shasta Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Karlene Stoker said. “This might be because there has been a better evacuation effort or because those animals (died from their injuries) and were not able to be rescued.”
“I have the impression that there have been (fewer) burned animals rescued,” said Lais Costa, a veterinarian and the director of operations for the Veterinary Emergency Response Team at UC Davis. These can overtake animals trying to flee. He and the CDFW are part the Wildlife Disaster Network, a coalition of University of California at Davis vets and other professionals saving animals from this year’s history-making wildfires.ĭrought throughout much of the state, triple-digit summers and wind mean fires are moving faster than usual. Hunnicutt is a California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist specializing in carnivores. The seventh - a 16-pound hamburger-eating cub dubbed Smokey Junior - went home with him. Five were healthy enough to evade him from capturing them. This year, Axel Hunnicutt ran through burning forests, slogged through streams and hiked steep mountain terrain trying to find seven black bears injured in Siskiyou County's Lava and Antelope fires. Watch Video: Goats run to their next job clearing flammable brush
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