Our goal is to
have a geocache placed in each state that reminds us of those
heroes who have died in the line of duty serving the public.
This is not a political agenda just a way to let others know
about the good men and women that have laid down their lives
protecting and serving all of us. This project includes Law
Enforcement officers, Fire Fighters, EMS and Military
personnel. If you decide you want to place a geocache of this
sort in your state please email me so I can count the states.
Also if you choose to place a story about the location please
do so!
Many thanks to Otterbox
for donating the containers for the initial launch of this
project!
This cache is dedicated to Casa Grande Police
Sergeant Tate Allan Lynch
Sergeant Tate Allan
Lynch
Casa Grande Police Department
Arizona
End of Watch: Thursday, October 25, 2007
Biographical Info
Age: 36
Tour of Duty: 9 years
Badge Number: 166
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Fall
Date of Incident: Thursday, October 25, 2007
Sergeant Tate Lynch succumbed to injuries
sustained when he fell from a wall while conducting training
exercises with the Pinal County SWAT
team.
Sergeant Lynch was a member of the inter-agency
Pinal County SWAT team. The team was training at the Pinal
County Detention Center, in Florence, where Sergeant Lynch
was rappelling down a wall. During his decent, Sergeant Lynch
fell and sustained serious head injuries. He was flown to
Scottsdale Healthcare Trauma Center where he succumbed to his
injuries a short time later.
Sergeant Lynch had served with the Casa Grande
Police Department for seven years and with the Holbrook
Police department for two years. He is survived by his wife,
three children, parents, sister, and two
brothers.
The
cache is a waterproof Otterbox.
To see other fallen
heroes, check out the ODMP
website.
This cache
was placed in advance of
The Absolut/Puzzlefam Picnic that is on 4/19. Hope to see you
there!
Initial contents of the container
include:
Geopatches
Geopins
Logbook/Pencil
An unactivated Travel bug/buddy combo for the FTF!