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(California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)

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Derrick “Bo” Taylor wasn’t abiding he would accomplish it to the Route 91 Harvest anniversary in Las Vegas. His accompaniment had accustomed him tickets for his 56th birthday, but canicule afore the aboriginal country singers took the stage, Taylor was 550 afar from his home in Southern California.

Taylor, a accompaniment correctional administrator for 29 years, was administering a aggregation of inmates allowance action a bonfire in the Shasta-Trinity Civic Forest, in the arctic allotment of the state. Lightning started what was alleged the Berry Blaze on Sept. 12. It austere about 1,000 acreage afore it was beneath ascendancy Sept. 28, aloof in time for Taylor to accomplish his trip.

He was killed, forth with his companion, Denise Cohen, three canicule later.

“He was a absolute gentleman,” said Leana Orsua, who was accompany with both Cohen and Taylor.

Taylor and Cohen had met about three years ago. She lived in Carpinteria, he 30 afar bottomward the California bank in Oxnard. Orsua said the couple’s adventurous accord had slowed in the accomplished year, admitting they remained abutting friends.

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They flew calm to Las Vegas and arrested into a auberge on the Strip, about two afar from the concert venue. They airish for a picture, continuing arm in arm in advanced of a Budweiser sign.

On Wednesday, Taylor’s son Kyle, 31, said he was in Las Vegas cat-and-mouse for the coroner to absolution his father’s body. He anticipation of his own sons, 2 and 4, and his brother’s three children, abandoning how his father, austere with him, had ashen already he became a grandfathering of five.

“With my little ones, he was different,” Kyle said. “I’d acquaint them don’t accomplish a blend and he’d acquaint me to aloof leave them alone.” Taylor fabricated a antagonism out of everything, acclimation contest to the beat or block the 2-year-old about the sandbox. “He aloof admired to play.”

At work, Taylor was a admired abettor who was admired by his agents and inmates, who, already free, frequently approached him back they saw him in accessible and thanked him for his help. “’I got a job. I’m accomplishing good,’” Kyle said he heard all too often.

The son added, “People admired him.”

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Taylor was a administrator at the Sierra Conservation Center, a minimum- and maximum-security bastille alfresco Oxnard that trains inmates in firefighting techniques and again helps abode them in jobs back they are released.

About 110 inmates there were assigned to “camps” led by Taylor, who took them in groups to forests and wildfires about the state. They were sometimes gone for weeks or months at a time. While there, the inmates, beneath the administration of accompaniment firefighters, hiked into mountains and forests, allowance besom and copse to actualize blaze curve to anticipate bonfire from advancing. They did not action the absolute fires, but their assignment was arduous and dangerous.

Taylor had been in allegation of such camps for 17 years.

For allotment of August and all of September, Taylor took his bedfellow aggregation on the road, hitting several fires in the state. The last, the Berry Fire, austere about 1,000 acreage over 16 canicule abreast California’s better civic forest.

“I aloof met Abettor Taylor at the Berry Fire,” one being wrote jn a accolade on the website for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “My bedmate and I were accomplishing laundry for the crews. He would appear by and we would visit. He was such a admirable man.”

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Said another: “Unbelievable. If you beyond paths with Bo Taylor you were adored to accept accepted him.”

Kyle declared his ancestor as an amenable man who didn’t booty his demanding job home and admired annihilation added than to booty his grandchildren to the park.

He said his ancestor already told him, “It doesn’t aching to be nice.”

— Peter Hermann

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