B.C. man who started dog rescue killed while saving animals in Ukraine

A B.C. man who started a dog rescue has been killed while saving animals in Ukraine. Jesse Adams founded RainCoast Dog Rescue Society, which is based in Victoria on Vancouver Island.Last Friday, Adams posted on Facebook that he was heading out on a rescue mission in eastern Ukraine.Two days later, an FPV (first-person view) drone struck the vehicle he was using to transport the animals, according to the rescue society.Adams suffered severe injuries and underwent emergency surgery, but doctors were unable to save him.“The best thing I can say is Jesse was a force of nature,” Penny Stone, executive director of the Victoria Humane Society, told Global News.“He was unbelievably go, go, go. Wherever help was needed, Jesse was. It didn’t matter. And I mean, it shows in that he went to Kabul and he went to Ukraine a number of times. He was just like wherever they needed help the most.” Story continues below advertisement Stone said Adams was someone who always stepped up and was there for every animal. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories. “When he was in Ukraine, I know he was rescuing tigers and lions and differ...