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To our friends in Canada
I just saw this morning news of the Fort Mcmurry Fire, not sure if there are any members in the affected area. I just wanted to let our friends up north that might be in the path of this fire know that my thoughts, and prayers are with y'all. I have seen the devastation of wildfires first hand, and hope that it is contained quickly with no more loss to any ones homes.
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I just saw this morning news of the Fort Mcmurry Fire, not sure if there are any members in the affected area. I just wanted to let our friends up north that might be in the path of this fire know that my thoughts, and prayers are with y'all. I have seen the devastation of wildfires first hand, and hope that it is contained quickly with no more loss to any ones homes.
Fire grew by 8 times from weds to Thurs. Still spreading and only a steady rain could slow it down.
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I know that about a year ago, many of the members of the DTR Alberta chapter lived in the neighborhoods on Fort Mac that have now been reduced to ashes.
While I don't have any family who live in Fort Mac, for some reason this situation really punched me in the gut. I have had many moments of sorrow for the people affected, then I have had moments of real anger as I see comments on Twitter from other Canadians saying things like 'It is nice to see those in the oil patch brought down a notch', 'Glad to see Fort Mac burn, it is karma for causing global warming' and more crap like that. Then I have had moments where I have felt super good about mankind when you hear stories about people doing things like loading their pickup trucks with every Jerry Can of gas and diesel then can carry and driving up the highway to help the drivers who are stranded because their vehicles ran out of gas while stuck in a convoy caused by the sudden evacuation of an entire 88,000 person city. The Fire Chief from Fort Mac gave a brief update on TV yesterday. All he could say was 'There are areas with very little damage, there are areas of almost complete devastation but know that we are doing our best to save every single one of your homes'. After that his emotions overtook him and he couldn't speak any more. It doesn't get any more human than that.
While I don't have any family who live in Fort Mac, for some reason this situation really punched me in the gut. I have had many moments of sorrow for the people affected, then I have had moments of real anger as I see comments on Twitter from other Canadians saying things like 'It is nice to see those in the oil patch brought down a notch', 'Glad to see Fort Mac burn, it is karma for causing global warming' and more crap like that. Then I have had moments where I have felt super good about mankind when you hear stories about people doing things like loading their pickup trucks with every Jerry Can of gas and diesel then can carry and driving up the highway to help the drivers who are stranded because their vehicles ran out of gas while stuck in a convoy caused by the sudden evacuation of an entire 88,000 person city. The Fire Chief from Fort Mac gave a brief update on TV yesterday. All he could say was 'There are areas with very little damage, there are areas of almost complete devastation but know that we are doing our best to save every single one of your homes'. After that his emotions overtook him and he couldn't speak any more. It doesn't get any more human than that.
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I know that about a year ago, many of the members of the DTR Alberta chapter lived in the neighborhoods on Fort Mac that have now been reduced to ashes.
While I don't have any family who live in Fort Mac, for some reason this situation really punched me in the gut. I have had many moments of sorrow for the people affected, then I have had moments of real anger as I see comments on Twitter from other Canadians saying things like 'It is nice to see those in the oil patch brought down a notch', 'Glad to see Fort Mac burn, it is karma for causing global warming' and more crap like that. Then I have had moments where I have felt super good about mankind when you hear stories about people doing things like loading their pickup trucks with every Jerry Can of gas and diesel then can carry and driving up the highway to help the drivers who are stranded because their vehicles ran out of gas while stuck in a convoy caused by the sudden evacuation of an entire 88,000 person city. The Fire Chief from Fort Mac gave a brief update on TV yesterday. All he could say was 'There are areas with very little damage, there are areas of almost complete devastation but know that we are doing our best to save every single one of your homes'. After that his emotions overtook him and he couldn't speak any more. It doesn't get any more human than that.
While I don't have any family who live in Fort Mac, for some reason this situation really punched me in the gut. I have had many moments of sorrow for the people affected, then I have had moments of real anger as I see comments on Twitter from other Canadians saying things like 'It is nice to see those in the oil patch brought down a notch', 'Glad to see Fort Mac burn, it is karma for causing global warming' and more crap like that. Then I have had moments where I have felt super good about mankind when you hear stories about people doing things like loading their pickup trucks with every Jerry Can of gas and diesel then can carry and driving up the highway to help the drivers who are stranded because their vehicles ran out of gas while stuck in a convoy caused by the sudden evacuation of an entire 88,000 person city. The Fire Chief from Fort Mac gave a brief update on TV yesterday. All he could say was 'There are areas with very little damage, there are areas of almost complete devastation but know that we are doing our best to save every single one of your homes'. After that his emotions overtook him and he couldn't speak any more. It doesn't get any more human than that.
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