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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.EUREKA (KPIX) — You can make fast money working on a marijuana farm in California. But with fast money comes risk and, sometimes, death.
Cal Fire’s Kneeland Helitack Base in Humboldt County is pretty close to the middle of nowhere so, when workers from a nearby pot farm showed up, Battalion Chief Kurt Dernedde knew something was amiss.
“To not have some sort of problem like [running] out of gas or anything, to just walk up to the base doesn’t normally happen,” he said.
The workers wanted to use the phone but Dernedde says they wouldn’t say why. The next day one of the men was back. He’d been found bleeding and terrified.
“He was already in rough shape,” said Dernedde.
That man was Fernando Lopez Paz, a migrant laborer from Guatemala. Paz told the firefighters he had just been shot by his boss on a pot farm....
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