| 5 weeks 4 days 45 min ago Firefighter saves burned bear cub from CA Wildfire
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(NECN/ABC) - Cal Fire firefighter Adam Deem found a frightened little bear cub, which had suffered burns, on Thursday in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, an area devastated by the Moon Fire.
The bear had burns on his paws and an eye injury. Deem says the cub kept scratching him as he held him close and calmed him down.
Deem returned to the fire camp at the Shasta County Fairgrounds where cub got some medical treatment. Deem is not sure how long the cub had been separated from his mother.
He says he and the cub have a connection. The cub has grown attached to him -- but is headed for a wildlife rehabilitation center in Sacramento.
Perhaps he'll be the next living "Smokey the Bear". The original living "Smokey" was a cub that was burned in a wildfire in the Capitan Mountains of New Mexico in 1950.
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