HARVEY A VARAT

Officer Rank: Lieutenant
Memorial Panel: 49-W: 21
Department: Ventura County, California, S.D.
End of Watch: October 20, 1973
Cause: PHYS
Age: 35
Years of Service: 12
Description: While leading a team of deputies in an exercise to practice mountain climbing and rappelling, Lieutenant Varat was bitten on the leg by a tick and infected with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. He died four days later.
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