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Man saves two dogs, driver: Fort Bragg Police give update on Pudding Creek Crash

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Lloyd Lewis resuced a man and two dogs from Pudding Creek, then volunteer firefighters helped him to safety

Kudos to Fort Bragg PD for sending us a photo of this hero! It looks like there will be no names on drivers released anymore. We will look into that but won’t be pressing for names. We are really OK with that if the policy is consistent. Too much needless voyeurism on Social Media! As we reported at the time, another crash happened at the same time rougly on Hare Creek Bridge on the other end of town.

FBPD Press Prelease – Pudding Creek Traffic Collison 8.22.26Download

Saturday is crash day! Driver crashes into Pudding Creek and has to be rescued, fishing boat grounds at Point Reyes and another car overturns at Hare Creek
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Frank Hartzell

Frank Hartzell has spent his lifetime as a curious anthropologist in a reporter's fedora. His first news job was chasing news on the streets of Houston with high school buddy and photographer James Mason, back in 1986. Then Frank graduated from Humboldt State and went to Great Gridley as a reporter, where he bonded with 1000 people and told about 3000 of their stories. In Marysville at the Appeal Democrat, the sheltered Frank got to see both the chilling depths and amazing heights of humanity. From there, he worked at the Sacramento Bee covering Yuba-Sutter and then owned the Business Journal in Yuba City, which sold 5000 subscriptions to a free newspaper. Frank then got a prestigious Kiplinger Investigative Reporting fellowship and was city editor of the Newark Ohio, Advocate and then came back to California for 4 years as managing editor of the Napa Valley Register before working as a Dominican University professor, then coming to Fort Bragg to be with his aging mom, Betty Lou Hartzell, and working for the Fort Bragg Advocate News. Frank paid the bills during that decade + with a successful book business. He has worked for over 50 publications as a freelance writer, including the Mendocino Voice and Anderson Valley Advertiser, along with construction and engineering publications. He has had the thrill of learning every day while writing. Frank is now living his dream running MendocinoCoast.News with wife, Linda Hartzell, and web developer, Marty McGee, reporting from Fort Bragg, California.

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