Roger
A Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Fire/Air Support Unit helicopter responded to assist in the pursuit as did personnel from the California Highway Patrol. The suspect drove onto Hwy 1 and eventually merged with Hwy. 135 and continued towards Orcutt. Just outside of Orcutt, the suspect made a U-turn on Highway 135 near Clark Ave. and started driving S/B Hwy. 135 towards Vandenberg Air Force Base.
On Hwy 1, near the Hwy. 135 interchange near Graciosa Road attempted another U-turn in a sandy soft-centered median. Before he could make it back onto the roadway, deputies used pursuit intervention techniques to successfully stop the vehicle. Due to the collaborative efforts of Sheriff’s deputies, CHP Officers and Security Forces from Vandenberg Air Force Base, the suspect was arrested at gunpoint and taken into custody without further incident.
The suspect was identified as being 38-year-old Donald Schellinger, a transient from Northern California. He will be booked at the Santa Barbara County Jail on charges of 2800.2 VC, Felony reckless evading; 496 PC, Possession of stolen property; 10851 VC, Vehicle theft; and 3056 PC, Parole violation.
Monterey County fire truck was stolen in Pismo Beach. It just left an address in Los Alamos. Fire truck possibly Traveling south code 3 (lights and sirens). The suspect is a white male 5’3″, 125 pounds, wearing a wet suit and wearing a CalFire hat.
I think there is a few of those here.
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official press release:
https://local.nixle.com/alert/6710680/?sub_id=8314709
Stolen fire ENGINE, Sacramento, July 14. Crazy. There sure are a lot of them out there, and will be, increasingly. Yeah, sometimes people are just plain rotten.
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https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article214909005.html
Also wearing a grey Cal Fire Hat 10851 out of Pismo Beach…
Cal Fire Truck is a 2016 Ford pick up truck with a camper shell and light bar it is a Cal Fire vehicle California plate 1485547….Taken out of Pismo heading South…Determination has not been made weather or not it was stolen from Monterey County…
SBSO and Copter 2 are searching for the vehicle at this time.
Possible West Bound on Bell street with a Unit behind it West bound on 135 from town.
They are on the vehicle in Los Alamos…
Contacting CHP…
West bound 135 5 miles from Harris Grade.
Whaah? Must be a small man complex.. 5′ 3″.. stealing a fire truck..
Everyone is behind the vehicle which is going faster..
2 Miles out of Harris Grade.
Traveling 95-100 mph…
Code 3 to Grasseo to block all EastBound Traffic.
San Antonio West toward Vandenberg and highway one.
60 mph in lite traffic.
Alert Vandenberg…
Traffic lite 60 mph..
Permission to pit going faster 1022 pit authorized in correct conditions..
Mile or less from highway 135.
Copter 2 to call the pursuit approaching 135 from San Antonio 200 years away from a sharp turn.
Northbound 135 from San Antonio lite traffic in the number 2 lane…
Heading back toward Grasseo not toward the base.
Up the grade a quater mile from the grade SBSO wants CHP to take over…
Back side of the grade..
Suspect vehicle at the merge.
Number one lane maintain a mile from the Y into Orcutt…
Number one lane traffic still lite.
Passing 135 into downtown Orcutt just passed a CHP officer.
Southbound 135 toward the Y at the Y Now heading East Bound 100 mph…
Went through the center median CHP just passed going the oppsite direction a mile from Grasseo..
One unit continuing with CHP everyone else break Copter 2 stating one mile from the Interchange just passed several CHP Vehicle heading for the base on Highway one.
Security forces attempting to over take the vehicle tried to go through the center median he is stuck and surrounded…
NEED THE ROAD SHUT DOWN.
HE IS STUCK IN THE CENTER MEDIAN AND SURROUNDED BY SECURITY FORCES SUSPECT IS OUT OF THE VEHICLE ON HIS STOMACH ON THE GROUND.
SECURITY FORCES ARE ON HIM.
SUSPECT 10-15 ONE IN CUSTODY…
Code 4 CHP on scene Roger over and Out.
You don’t need to yell , and yes it was a truck and you of all people should know the difference ie. Engine 1, Truck 1 and yep even Rescue 1 is a truck. You obviously just want to start an argument since I never said it was not a truck. So have at it but I’m done.
DESTAG – Actually, I don’t really care what kind of vehicle it was. That anyone would steal a Fire UNIT is upsetting. Along with driving at high speeds, and recklessly. It IS somewhat of a relief that it wasn’t a larger vehicle, much less what is often referred to as a fire engine, which I believe is actually a large truck with special adaptations to it. My concept of an engine, is that of a motor used to move the fire ‘trucks’ or ‘engines’ (and the different adaptations on them. Ladders, water pumps, etc) as they are often referred to. Nothing to be upset about if someone doesn’t use the right term as you may know it to be, anyway.
It is not a fire “engine”, so please refrain from capitalizing bogus info. It clearly states in all references including your link that it is a pickup truck, a far cry from a 1,000 gal. capacity “engine” with a pump.