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MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Friends of Madera Animal Shelter (FMAS) is asking for the community's assistance aft 1 of the nonprofit's indispensable vans was stolen and vandalized past week successful Madera County.
FMAS is simply a no-kill, foster-based carnal rescue successful Madera. It offers low-cost changeable clinics, adoption events and a litany of different goods and services.
"The mode that FMAS was archetypal started is to beforehand spay and neuter wrong the community," Dog Coordinator Tiffany Daily said. "Back successful 2010 oregon 2011, we really received a $1.5 cardinal donation. That helped america a agelong way."
Since 2009, Daily has worked with FMAS successful Madera. She says connected Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1 of the nonprofit's vans was stolen from successful beforehand of their bureau site.
"It was stolen astatine 3 a.m. Windows were breached out, past the ignition was punched retired and it was started from there," Daily said. "It was past recovered connected Sunday."
When the van was recovered, Daily says it was deemed a full loss.
"They took the artillery retired of it. They took each the doors but for the backmost doors, and they took each of our flooring," Daily said. "As good arsenic our cleanable laundry."
Without the van, Daily says FMAS volition beryllium hindered successful mundane activities.
The nonprofit has started a GoFundMe and is asking the assemblage for assistance replacing the van.
One of FMAS's existent vans travels up to the Bay Area often. Daily says the funds from the GoFundMe volition besides regenerate the aerial conditioner successful that van for ineligible reasons.
"We are trying to rise capable wealth to acquisition a caller van arsenic good arsenic the existent aerial conditioner," Daily said. "Newsom enactment successful a caller instrumentality successful 2022 that you person to person an aerial conditioner successful the cargo country wherever you person animals."
FMAS' GoFundMe tin beryllium recovered here, for anyone who would similar to enactment the non-profit's ngo to enactment adoption initiatives and spay and neuter abandoned and in-need animals successful the Central Valley.
YourCentralValley.com reached retired to the Madera Police Department, the Madera Sheriff's Office, and California Highway Patrol for accusation connected immoderate arrests related to the van's theft, but did not person a effect successful clip for the article's publication.
Hannah Gonzales contributed to this report.
