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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That sounds pretty bad.

Is it like the one from a few years ago, or do they think they'll get this one under control?

How far away are you? You're not in a place where you'd worry about anything besides the smoke if it did get bad, are you?

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Looks bad, a firestorm that creates and sustains its own wind system

I seen a few videos online

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I hope it goes well for everyone and they can stop it a lot quicker than last time.

I remember that fog. It was amazing how far south it got and how thick it was still by the time it got here.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh, my.

Please, Lady Rain, bless western Canada.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
From what I'm hearing the smoke has largely missed us because it's not coming down as far south so far as they thought it would. That could change at any second though.

Thanks for the heads up in the tags though. Good lookin' out.

Hope you get some rain soon.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Stay safe, Brenda. You're pretty densely urban around you, aren't you? Like a lot of concrete and the trees are really just there for decoration?

You get yourself stocked up in case you need to stay inside to avoid the smoke for a few days?

How's your cooling situation? Do you know somebody who has A/C that you could stay for a while if you need to and you don't have your own? I always think of ice when I think of Canada and I know that's stupid, but is A/C pretty common up there or more of a rarity?

Is your water from the tap good, or do you need to stock up on some water?


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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh no....

I'm seeing one of them arrested was an 18 year old woman "from the Cree Nation".

They're saying the other one is a 36 year old man from a place called "Pelican Narrows".

Both of them said to be unrelated to each other. The only variance on this story that I've seen has been that there may have been 2 men involved in the case of the guy who got arrested. No names or any other information given that I can tell yet.


I've been doing some serious looking into it and I haven't found anything more out. All the articles that even say that much are all copy and paste jobs and basically say the same thing, and I think they're all copying a story by The Canadian Press News. (Are they a legit outfit? I don't read much Canadian news and have no objective opinion of them).

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/saskatchewan/saskatche
wan-lays-charges-in-wildfires-while-1-000-more-flee-in-manitoba/article_76547a2e-858c-58fb-8a78-aa4bd9d617b4.html


I wouldn't know how to try to access any public records in Canada and honestly with the way this wacky world is all topsy-turvy at the moment I don't think it would behoove me to try to learn about it right now, if ya get me.



I remember when people didn't intentionally set forests on fire and burn 7,000+ homes down.

We got to get back to that again.

Keep your head up. We will.



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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I would think that anybody setting fires in forests would be political idealogues, and almost certainly on the left left side of thinking.

I can see an argument why natives would be left wing, but from what I've read here in Amercica, native indians actually broke hard for Trump last election compared to the previous. I really don't hear much about them, esepecially when it comes to politics, and I think that's mostly because they choose not to speak out much.

It's just shocking for me to hear that any natives would be doing such a thing, even if they have been taken by ideology.

Maybe that's just me falsely applying a positive stereotype where maybe it doens't belong anymore? It's not like American and Canadian Indians are the Amish. They're all on computers and smart phone and the internet today like everyone else, right? Especially the kids?


I'm tellin' ya... I think those Covid lockdowns have done some serious mental damage to society in general and we don't even realize yet what all that forced isolation has done and the price we have yet to pay for it.

That girl was 13 years old when they shut everything down including the schools and kept people inside their own houses with nothing to do but veg out on TV and the internet for a couple of years (after telling us it was only going to be 2 weeks). Who knows who she started listening to with all that forced free time.



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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I wasn't insinuating I thought anybody was perfect. Just strange to me that any native would do something to "make a statement" by burning forests down. The articles framed it as if the fires were started intentionally, but why should I believe them any more than I believe any of the other BS news out there? Like I said, every article seems to be just a cut and paste from that one article I linked above, so they were all saying the same thing.

But "Arson" charges have been mentioned specifically, and that's setting fire with intent and wouldn't be applied to accidental burning, unless those are trumped up charges.



I haven't found any new news on those two arrests, but they're looking for another guy who was setting cars and a garage on fire in Toronto now too...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/suspect-wanted-for-allegedly-se
tting-on-fire-two-vehicles-and-garage-in-christie-pits/

You stay safe, Brenda.

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