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Firefighters rescue coyote pup stuck in brush fire near Oakwood

KAWARTHA LAKES-Firefighters with the City of Kawartha Lakes fire department rescued a coyote pup from a brush fire on Sunday.

Crews were called to the Oakwood area just after 5:30 on Sunday. The pup was stuck in the fire. After the rescue one of the volunteer firefighters, Shaw Farr, drove the pup to the Shades of Hope Wildlife Refuge in Pefferlaw.

Shades of Hope is a Registered Charity, licensed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Canadian Wildlife Services.  Their mission is to nurture, treat & rehabilitate injured and orphaned native wildlife with the goal of releasing healthy animals back into their natural habitats.

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Pamela Vanmeer
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Pamela VanMeer is a two time winner of the prestigious Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Award. Her investigative reports on abuse in Long Term Care Homes garnered international attention for the issue and won the Ron Laidlaw Award. She is a former reporter and anchor at CHEX News, now Global Peterborough and helped launch the New CHEX Daily, a daily half hour talk show. While at CHCH News in Hamilton she covered some of the biggest news stories of the day.

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