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        <title><![CDATA[5-year-old gifts Baby Yoda doll to ‘lonely’ firefighters on wildfire front lines]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An inspiration, Baby Yoda is.</p><p>A thoughtful 5-year-old boy in northwestern Oregon gifted a foot-tall Baby Yoda doll to front-line firefighters there as an inspirational thank you <strong>for their hard work battling blazes</strong> on the West Coast.</p><p>Carver, who lives in Scappoose, Oregon, was shopping with his grandmother, Sasha Tinning, last weekend when they came across the single remaining plushie of &#8220;The Child,&#8221; a k a Baby Yoda from the Disney+ series &#8220;The Mandalorian,&#8221; at a store.</p><p>“He was the last one on the shelf, just staring at us saying, ‘Take me with you! I need to go with you.’ So that’s kind of how it started,” Tinning <strong>told Oregon&#8217;s KPTV</strong>.</p><p>They purchased the doll and then dropped the now-iconic character at a supply drive for firefighters. The lad attached a handwritten thank-you note to the firefighters — some of whom are separated from family right now — that read in part, &#8220;Here is a friend for you, in case you get lonely,&#8221; and included a hand-drawn heart, the word &#8220;Love&#8221; and his scrawled first name.</p><p>“He loves to make people smile,” Tinning said of Carver&#8217;s outgoing nature.</p><figure id="attachment_16316390"  class="wp-caption alignright"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/09/baby-yoda-oregon-note-fights-fires-4.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/09/baby-yoda-oregon-note-fights-fires-4.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/09/baby-yoda-oregon-note-fights-fires-4.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>The Baby Yoda plushie with Carver&#8217;s hand-written note.</span><span class="credit">Facebook</span></figcaption></figure><p>Since then, Baby Yoda has been making the front-line rounds, traveling to various fire camps as a &#8220;source of light and &#8216;Force&#8217; in the world,&#8221; Oregon Department of Forestry representative Marcus Kauffman <strong>told The Register-Guard</strong>. The Child&#8217;s travels have been chronicled on a Facebook page, appropriately titled &#8220;<strong>Baby yoda fights fires</strong>,&#8221; that has been followed by more than 3,400 people. There, supporters <strong>lauded young Carver</strong>, saying, &#8220;The world needs more kids like you,&#8221; and commending him for being &#8220;an awesome little boy with a heart so big!!&#8221;</p><p>His grandmother also was gratified to witness the green toy&#8217;s uplifting journey.</p><p>“These ash-covered firefighters, just covered from head to foot, holding this Baby Yoda. Every one of those pictures just makes my heart warm,” Tinning said to KPTV.</p><p>In Oregon, the Beachie Creek Fire, east of Salem, grew to <strong>burn almost 200,000 acres and the West Coast fires&nbsp;</strong>are predicted to cost more than $20 billion in damages.</p><p>&#8220;The Mandalorian&#8221; is <strong>up for several 2020 Emmys</strong> and has already taken the award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for the Season 1 episode titled &#8220;Chapter 2: The Child.&#8221; (The virtual 72nd annual Emmys, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will air at 8 p.m. Sunday on ABC.)</p><p>Season 2 of the popular &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; spinoff series <strong>premieres on Oct. 30</strong>.</p><figure id="attachment_16316398"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/09/baby-yoda-oregon-firefighters-group-fights-fires-1.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/09/baby-yoda-oregon-firefighters-group-fights-fires-1.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/09/baby-yoda-oregon-firefighters-group-fights-fires-1.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Front-line firefighters pose with Baby Yoda, a gift from a thankful 5-year-old fan.</span><span class="credit">Facebook</span></figcaption></figure>]]></content:encoded>
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