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Aussie Firefighters Help US With Wildfires... Get Shot At

  • 10-09-2018 7:55pm
    #1
    Billy86
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    No surprise I guess given the hack of that country at the moment, hopefully the two who did it gets exactly what they have coming. Same area there was the terrorist standoff about 2-3 years back with those Bundy scumbags and a whole rake of other rednecks.

    https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/australian-firefighters-shot-at-while-battling-us-wildfire-20180910-p502x6.html
    Two Australian firefighters, on patrol with US Forest Service personnel in Washington state, were set upon by hunters, chased and shot at in an incident which has reached officials within the Foreign Affairs Department.

    The incident, which took place on August 23, shook Australia's support operation in the northwest of the United States and led to demands for local fire services to upgrade security and guarantee the safety of the crew.

    Nearly 80 Australian firefighters have been working with the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in northern California, Oregon and Washington since July, and were dispatched to the popular White Pass ski destination in August after fire spread across an eight square kilometre area.

    The incident, which involved two Australians and two local officers, led to the arrest of the two hunters.

    Fairfax Media understands they have been charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

    The remote area, 160 kilometres from Seattle, is close to land in Oregon where armed anti-government activists seized and occupied the wildlife refuge headquarters for more than a month.


Comments

  • #2
    Ipso
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    Low IQ and fire arms, what can go wrong?


  • #3
    TheValeyard
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    'merica

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • #4
    Noveight
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    If only the firefighters had guns...


  • #5
    TheValeyard
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    Noveight wrote: »
    If only the firefighters had guns...

    Fight fire, by Firing!!!! Pew pew pew pew pew

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • #6
    metaoblivia
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    My brother is a firefighter and he experiences similar reactions in certain parts of his city. People will throw bricks or shoot guns at the firetrucks as they drive by. It never makes any sense. Firefighters aren't the police. They can't arrest you. They're literally here to help you by either putting out a fire or acting as first responders to a medical emergency.


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  • #7
    pleas advice
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    Noveight wrote: »
    If only the firefighters had guns...

    you gotta fight fire with fire


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