Canadian fire insanity

[Jefe's AR]

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[ray1970]

So, like, one of those guys should like drink a bunch of beer, eh. And then put the fire out, eh.

[hollohas]

Watched a video of the evac from one neighborhood. Trees were blowing up right next to the road and people were politely sitting in traffic waiting to get out. They were even hesitant to drive on the wrong side of the road at first. Had to be hot as hell. All I was thinking was, "damn, Canadians really ARE that nice".

In America, people would be freaking out, bulldosing their way through, running each other off the road, causing even worse backups and very likely jamming the road preventing others from getting out safely.

Even though there were 100ft high flames right next to the road, they all patiently evacuated and everyone got out safe. Great study on emergency response and evacuation.

But dang, that fire is nuts. They got zero notice. Unbelievable.

[hollohas]

Here's a few clips from the video. I'll try to find the complete version

https://youtu.be/K5DSwPfiRs8



And a longer version. It looks like hell for a minute there.

https://youtu.be/ieTQvIdG-Vo

[NFATrustGuy]

I spent the night in Minneapolis last night and left very early (5:30am takeoff) this morning. It was smokey with very limited visibility... Reported at 3 miles. Surprisingly, it didn't smell all that much. I remember when there were fires up the Poudre Canyon it smelled like a campfire forever.

[HoneyBadger]

Wow, those videos are insane. I would be driving across people's yards to get away from that!

[Irving]

I watched the bottom video and gave it a thumbs down and then blasted him on Youtube for the uncalled for swearing.



At 1:25ish you can see a poor bird flying around.