Poulsbo Battalion Chief Jake Gillanders is a volunteer with Empact Northwest.
POULSBO, Wash. — He is on a one-man mission to help lower the death toll in Ukraine.
Battalion Chief Jake Gillanders is taking the rescue skills he learned as a Poulsbo firefighter to the war-weary cities of Ukraine.
“We’re not going to fight Russians,” Gillanders said. “We’re going to serve civilians who are caught up in the gears of war.”
Gillanders is volunteering with Empact Northwest, Kitsap County-based relief agency that provides rescue training and disaster response to countries around the world.
He’s going solo to Ukraine to teach
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