NEW MARKET - For more than two years, Mount Crawford native Jonathan Pine combed through charred brush as an investigator with the Virginia Department of Forestry.
In October, Pine left his job in Fauquier County and joined 58 other cadets at the Virginia State Police Academy in Richmond.
Now, Pine, 24, is out on the roads patrolling Shenandoah County.
"I investigated how wildfires started," Pine said. "I enjoyed the law enforcement part of my forestry...
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