By Darrell Smith
The Sacramento Bee
WILLIS, Calif. — A CAL FIRE firefighter who once served locally in the agency’s Amador-El Dorado Unit died Saturday in an off-duty vehicle accident, CAL FIRE officials on the North Coast announced Sunday.
Christion Schoenfeld was 26. Schoenfeld was a Firefighter I working in CAL FIRE’s Mendocino Unit at the time of his death. CAL FIRE did not provide information on how he died.
“Firefighter Schoenfeld will be remembered as a motivated, goal-oriented public servant, whose exceptional physical fitness and dedication inspired those around him,” CAL FIRE officials said in a Facebook post announcing his death.
Schoenfeld was in his third year in the state’s fire service. He turned 26 in June.
Schoenfeld worked two years as a handcrew firefighter in the Amador-El Dorado Unit before his transfer to Mendocino Unit’s Woodlands Fire Station in Mendocino.
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