I feel anxious just watching these videos. Unbelievable what these people are going through to get out of the city. It truly does look like an armageddon type scene.
I am so grateful there's people heading up there to help out while everyone is trying to go the other way. So frightening.
Man, I know what you mean. I was just thinking to myself that I need to calm myself down. And I'm not even involved with the catastrophe. I can't imagine what those folks are going through.
Man, I know what you mean. I was just thinking to myself that I need to calm myself down. And I'm not even involved with the catastrophe. I can't imagine what those folks are going through.
I want to literally go there and help if I could.
Same here. I feel such a strong connection to this. I wish I could do something.
We should all donate.
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Beacon Hill is a large long loop with the only entrance/exit on the south side. This is where the video ends with him pulling onto SB 63. Looks like lots of people were already driving up and over the greenbelt to avoid a pile up on Beacon Hill RD. Looked calm and cool all things considered.
Ya I didn't notice this on the front cam but on the rear dash you get a good view of it towards the end.
I am stressed out just watching these videos. That biker must have been feeling the heat.
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Everyone involved should be proud. First responders for braving true H**l on Earth conditions. Also the people of Fort Mac. I'll admit I chuckle at the d bag jokes in the past about that town, I mean that with a bit of brotherly Alberta love.
Just seeing how in reality an entire city was calm and collected. Wow, amazing work. I admired the work ethic before, but man you can tell those people have the stuff together. Calm and collected. Way to go.
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Tomorrow marks my 1 year anniversary of being laid off from a job just south of Ft Mac.
I'm almost food bank poor, so a cash donation is not an option. But my wife is off for the next week which means I don't have to worry about the kids and could be put to use. Does anyone know where I could donate myself, physically, to help in any way?
Loading supplies or anywhere that needs bodies?
Locally you can call the Red Cross and food banks and volunteer...also the government is not taking any volunteers at this time, this from their website
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As for those that want to go to the area to help....dont. At least not for a while.
The word is that residents wont be allowed back for at least 72 hours AFTER the fire is contained...which it is far from being at this point.
Truth is, until all assessments of damage are made, and the ability to make sure those returning have somewhere to eat/get supplies/etc, you will just be in the way and probably unable to actually do anything.
The best bet to help is maybe start taking up a collection from friends/neighbors type of thing and give that to the RC...who are really good at getting that into the right hands.
Everyone involved should be proud. First responders for braving true H**l on Earth conditions. Also the people of Fort Mac. I'll admit I chuckle at the d bag jokes in the past about that town, I mean that with a bit of brotherly Alberta love.
Just seeing how in reality an entire city was calm and collected. Wow, amazing work. I admired the work ethic before, but man you can tell those people have the stuff together. Calm and collected. Way to go.
Yes if that was Vancouver it would be an utter ****show, I love my hometown but we can barely drive properly at the best of times.
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Ya I didn't notice this on the front cam but on the rear dash you get a good view of it towards the end.
I am stressed out just watching these videos. That biker must have been feeling the heat.
At 1:34 you can see a couple animals (deer perhaps or a couple dogs maybe, I'm not sure) dashing up the left side of the video then bolt across the street.
Yeah amazed at how orderly people were driving, probably was a significant factor in no one getting hurt yesterday. I'd hate to imagine if that was a non-Canadian town where people are more aggressive by nature.
Here in China it would be a complete ####show. People driving on the sidewalk, smashing into other cars. That is amazing to see how calm everyone was in that situation.
Don't know the lady who posted that, but I know (based on some twitter conversations that shows up in my feed) that she was involved with helping the Syrian refugees in Calgary, so this might very well be true.
I donated $1,000 to the red cross today through my work.
I'll challenge each CP member to donate, period.
Post in the thread if you do donate and encourage other people to do so. Really though, it doesn't matter the amount, just donate something if you can.
Also, it's not just money to get the people safe. Now that they are here in Edmonton, there is going to be a lot of downtime with their kids. I wish we could donate things like Scene points for Cineplex Odeon or stuff like that so the victims can go and escape for a few hours.
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Thought I could provide some image updates from satellite fire detection systems. Red dots are new within 6 hours.
Fort Mac:
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Fort Mac has a lot of new action to the SE. High Level looks to have gotten worse, spreading west. The other fire mentioned further south doesn't show up much so it must be fairly contained.
I posted how to access this yesterday, if you want to look for yourself here: http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpos...&postcount=552
I can post updates if there is any interest. Doesn't take long to generate the images.
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I sure hope that people who use the backcountry are being extra careful and not casually discarding cigarette butts or starting camp fires as I would think that another one or two large scale fires would really stretch the resources to battle them.
I read that they figure this fort mac fire was likely started by man due tot eh lack of lightning activity in the area, has anyone else heard anything more on that?
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