Rozane Sutherland wanted to be a Forest Ranger when she was a teenager. While a senior in high school in Washington state, she enrolled in the environmental conversation aide class. The teacher got the “assignments” from the rangers for that day or week. The students did everything from putting gravel on trails, to clearing paths after a storm, to taking out an old dock on Lake Crescent that was part of the Olympic National Park. Whatever the rangers needed/wanted us to do for them, we did. We carried all our own equipment, which included chainsaws, axes, and shovels. After graduation, Rozane moved to Texas where she met her future husband Kent, who was in the Air Force. While he was on Christmas leave visiting his family, they met on a blind date. “There is love at first sight!” says Rozane. They have been married for over 27 years and have three boys. They live on 50 acres with all the two-and four-legged critters they have adopted (or that adopted them) over the years! Erika Bartlett and Rozane started the Emergency! web site in 1997. They met online in early 1997 while looking for someone to trade episodes with. Erika mentioned she was going to start a website on the show, and Rozane offered to help. They both had wondered what had become of the cast and crew, and so they went to work on finding all of them. Mike Norell was the first, and Rozane said, “If he was not as sweet and gracious as he was to me when I called him…I probably would not have had the courage to keep looking for others! So, everyone has Mike Norell to thank for all those interviews on the site.” Rozane started working on the Emergency! convention as a co-chair in May 1998. Tons of constant work she stated, but well worth it to see all the faces of the fans as they saw their heroes together again for the first time in more than 20 years.
