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Responders Rally For Popular Garfield Police Officer Who Lost Cats, Home In Fierce Fire Responders Rally For Popular Garfield Police Officer Who Lost Cats, Home In Fierce Fire
Responders Rally For Popular Garfield Police Officer Who Lost Cats, Home In Fierce Fire YOU CAN HELP: Responders, friends and community members are rallying to assist a Garfield police officer whose home was destroyed by a raging fire that killed her two cats and displaced her family and five others. No one was in the Van Winkle Avenue residence that had been home for more than 30 years to four-year Garfield Police Department veteran Rebecca Schmidt and her parents and brother when the blaze broke out around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Brother Adam Schmidt rescued the family dog, but his sister’s two cats perished in the fire, which engulfed their home and another and severely damaged…