News of a tragedy is never easy to hear, and it carries extra weight when it impacts someone from your community.
Such was the case this year, when a St. Helens native was attacked in a fatal ambush in Oregon’s neighbor to the east.
David Tysdal, a firefighter and engineer with the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department since 2002, was seriously injured June 29 when he and other first responders were called to a fire and then ambushed with gunfire…