Flying Tails Animal Rescue completes biggest rescue to date – relocating up to 20 dogs from overflowing Los Angeles animal shelters impacted by the wildfires to Pets Lifelife and other shelters in the Bay Area.
Sonoma based nonprofit Flying Tails Animal Rescue held their biggest animal rescue to date with five planes from the Bay Area traveling to Los Angeles on Jan. 17 to deliver as many as 20 dogs to local shelters, including Pets Lifeline in Sonoma and North Bay Animal Services in Petaluma.
The Los Angeles wildfires have inundated Southern California animal shelters with lost and evacuated animals, so the relocation effort’s goal is to move dogs already at those shelters to the Bay Area to make room at Los Angeles shelters for animals impacted by the fires.
Pets Lifeline CEO Olivia Kristiansen coordinated logistics between the Los Angles and Bay Area animal shelters.
Former KRON4 news anchor and pilot Ken Wayne, the CEO of Flying Tails, coordinated the rescue mission with the pilots. Wayne’s plane departed from Petaluma Municipal Airport in the morning on Jan. 17, while the others took off from Buchanon Field in Concord and three others from the airport in Hawyard to all met at the Van Nuys Airport for the pickup. The pilots all headed back to the Bay Area that night, with Wayne landing back at the Petaluma Municipal Aiport.
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