• GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Reid Foreman is one of them. He admits he knowingly disobeyed evacuation orders and tells CTV News he would do it again.

    “In a heartbeat,” said the Eagle Bay resident who works in the forestry industry.

    “I’ll get arrested, I’ll get a fine, I don’t care – I’m helping, I know I’m helping.”

    This person is risking the lives of people who can actually help. What an idiot.

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    In hurricanes we tell people in mandatory evacuation zones & stay to write their Social Security number on their arm in permanent marker so that they can be ID’d later. After a certain point rescue crews will be unable to reach you because it’s too dangerous.

    That wouldn’t work as well here, but they’re putting other people at risk by acting like spoiled children. I don’t know if they can arrest them or what for hampering firefighter efforts, but at some point they have to stop.

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    Their arguments seems to be that the gear was just sitting there not being used when it could have been being used to protect their property so they were within their rights to take it.

    Can we give them stickers to put on their trucks, ATVs, and boats so that everyone else knows that if they see them sitting somewhere not being used it’s ok to take them if you could be using them?