KENNEWICK, Wash. – A local Firefighter took matters into his own hands when he learned about a missing 77-year-old woman with dementia in his neighborhood.

“I don’t like standing idly by when somebody needs help,” Garrett Trappett, Kennewick Firefighter and Paramedic, said.

Trappett was on his way home when he noticed a dispatch call about his missing neighbor. He offered his help at the command post, but was told they had enough resources.

After spending a few hours at home, he felt he had to help. Trappett took his dog and began following a route he thought the woman might have taken.

“I was thinking, what would a lady with severe dementia do? Where would she go?” Trappett said. “And I just kind of followed the route that I would take if I were in her shoes and walked to the intersta

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