r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/flyingcatwithhorns • Jun 08 '23
Driving through wildfires in Canada Video
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u/Maleficent_Prior8084 Jun 08 '23
And it’s hot as hell. I’m from one of the towns that was wiped out.
This footage is actually from VERY NEAR where I am originally from but I am not the OP.
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u/polkahuntas Jun 08 '23
Was this not the one in hammonds plains?
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u/gimmedatneck Jun 09 '23
Fuck, this is in HP?
I grew up in the HRM - I haven't actually seen this video. I had no idea the fires were hugging the highway while people were still evacuating.
This video's terrifying.
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u/JimmyNorth902 Jun 08 '23
This is the Hammonds Plains fire, yes.
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u/good_from_afar Jun 09 '23
Wow never knew the fires were so close to Halifax
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u/Feisty-Session-7779 Jun 09 '23
I’ve never even been to NS, but I was curious how close to Halifax this was so I googled it, it’s only a 26 minute drive from downtown Halifax? Is that correct?
That’s like me being here in the suburbs of Toronto and the fires being as close as the CN tower, which I can normally see from here if it wasn’t for all this smoke. That’s terrifying!
What happens if it goes towards a large(ish) city like Halifax? Will the concrete stop it from spreading into the city? Am I safe from wildfires in the GTA?
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u/JimmyNorth902 Jun 09 '23
That is correct. Hammonds Plains and Tantallon are suburbs of Halifax. And when it started the winds were pushing it more toward the city. I live in the area in between the fire and Halifax itself. It was pretty stressful for a while. But I ended up being luckier than many.
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u/Feisty-Session-7779 Jun 09 '23
That’s crazy! I had no idea these fires were that close to populated areas, especially as big as Halifax. Keep safe out there!
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u/JimmyNorth902 Jun 09 '23
The larger fire in Shelburne County is in a much less populated area. It's about two and a half hours from Halifax and still burning. Great start to the summer.
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u/Feisty-Session-7779 Jun 09 '23
Good to hear it’s not too close to the city, but still terrible for the people that are affected. And it’s still technically spring, summer hasn’t even started yet.
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u/Frostyler Jun 09 '23
And their tires are probably melted, too. I work at a BMW dealer in Edmonton and when the massive wildfires in 2016 wiped out most of Northern Alberta, we had hundreds of people who evacuated and booked appointments for new tires because they were completely destroyed from the heat.
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u/I_Automate Jun 09 '23
I remember the refugees (can't really think of a better word, they were fleeing destroyed homes in the face of immediate danger to their lives) from Fort McMurray piling into Edmonton.
People opened their homes to total strangers. The local Sikh community had entire semis loaded up with supplies within a day. People were going up and down the highway with home made food feeding people stuck on the road.
It was a tragedy but....nobody died and that's all that really matters
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u/TheScientistBS3 Jun 09 '23
It doesn't matter which country you're in, the Sikh community is always solid. They're always the first to help and the most generous, really great people.
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u/I_Automate Jun 09 '23
That has been my experience. Sorry for the incoming text wall.
I'm pretty against organized religion in general. I can't say I'm fully atheist because I can't 100% prove that a higher power doesn't exist, but I'm an atheist in all the ways that matter. I've had most of them tell me I'm going to hell for some reason or another. I believe that the universe around us is wonderful in its intricacies without the idea of a creator who put it all together. Physics is the programming language of reality and that's always fascinated me.
I had a conversation with a Sikh grandfather (over some of the best tea I've ever had) while doing a house call. After we talked about things for a while and that came up. I told him I didn't believe, but that I do think that the pursuit of scientific knowledge would be the highest form of worship to a God. Imagine if someone dedicated their entire life to understanding a tiny part of something you built. That would be the highest form of devotion I can imagine.
He said something that's stuck with me since.
"We have a saying. Many boats can cross the river. The pursuit of truth, through faith or through science, is still the pursuit of truth, and that's all that matters. We believe God sees the true soul, not just what direction you bow. You are doing your best to understand the world around you, to find truth, and to live a good life, helping those around you.
Even if you don't believe, I think our God would take you in. What kind of God would He be if He didn't take in someone who was trying their best to be a good person?"
Not going to lie, that had me in tears. 10+ years later and that's still the most positive conversation about religion I've ever had.
TL:DR- Sikh grandfather made me some awesome tea and showed me that not all religions are as insane as the others.
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u/RealCommercial9788 Jun 09 '23
I loved your story! That sort of wisdom stays with you forever. The Sikh represent the good in us. Grew up in a country town with a large proportion of Sikh and Hare Krishna. I have wonderful memories of attending their free Sunday morning community breakfast at the temple, all you had to do was help out with the clean up. Zero judgement, so much warmth and acceptance and kindness. Pillars of our community, all of them!
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u/RealCommercial9788 Jun 09 '23
Yes!! The most wonderful people. The Sikh’s saved our entire region during the once in a thousand year floods last March that wiped out many major towns including Lismore and broke the levee in Murwillumbah (NSW Australia) - people lost everything.
The Sikh were organised and mobilised immediately, doing whatever they could, feeding everybody no questions asked, thousands of meals a day, and it was weeks before our government lifted a finger - too busy shifting blame and denying accountability or basic responsibility to its citizens.
No other church or religious affiliated group showed up to help. The Sikh are considered angels here ✨🪽
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u/JimmyNorth902 Jun 08 '23
This footage is from the Hammonds Plains fire outside of Halifax.
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u/pippinator1984 Jun 09 '23
Behind on news. What started the fires? How many areas are still burning? This video is rather frightening. Thanks
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u/JimmyNorth902 Jun 09 '23
There's lots of rumors about how they started. For the fire right outside of Halifax I've heard kids messing around and I've heard a guy burning brush in his yard that got out of hand. That fire is basically out. A few hot spots and things remain. 150 homes were destroyed and about 50 other buildings.
The larger fire in land area, which is down in Shelburne County on the south shore was absolutely massive. It's still burning but is contained. That was started by some guys burning things in the woods. I've heard around 50 homes were destroyed in that. The saving grace there is even though the fire is much larger, it's in a very rural area so there has been less destruction of homes.
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u/DishImpossible3086 Jun 08 '23
Ah paradise i knew people who lived there that was a horrible day when i head the news
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u/DEATH-BY-CIRCLEJERK Jun 09 '23 edited Jun 09 '23
Sorry if I’m being obtuse, but you understand this isn’t the Camp Fire that took out Paradise, right? It’s from a currently/recently-burning fire in Canada.
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u/dzhastin Jun 09 '23
Fires…plural. There are multiple, massive fires raging across Canada, practically from coast to coast.
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u/TonyVstar Jun 09 '23
Which province is on fire?
Yes
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u/I_Automate Jun 09 '23
At least a full percent of Alberta was ACTIVELY on fire.
Pretty sure the active fires currently cover an area larger than quite a few countries.
Bad times. Sitting in a work camp and seeing at least 3 aircraft in view at any given time making water bombing runs, with the threat of a helicopter evacuation if the fires flash over the access roads...
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u/Devilishlygood98 Jun 09 '23
BC has been pretty fucking garbage for Wildfires the last couple years also. In 2017 it lost 1.2 million hectares of land to wildfire (1.3% total land area). 2018 was worse with 1.35 million hectares burnt. 2019/2020 we were blessed with mild+wet weather, Which was absolutely delightful. However, when the heat caught up back in 2021, it was devastating. Nearly the entire city of Lytton, BC burnt to the ground. 2 people were unable to escape the speed of the fire and perished in the flames. 2022 was fair, with damp conditions in May/June and hot, dry conditions into October. But now… now 2023 has come to try and Blow every single record out of the water for every single province across Canada.
THIS. IS GLOBAL WARMING.
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u/DadB0d_Dave Jun 09 '23
I live in this area - hammonds plains NS. No towns were wiped out, so you must be referring to another fire. I guess that tells you how many fires are happening around Canada right now. We're in for a rough summer
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u/Alert_Plankton7500 Jun 08 '23
Oof. Lots of my friends lost houses in that fire.
My best friend was a manager of a coffee shop at the base of the hill that’s the main / pretty much the only artery out of Paradise.
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u/StopSayingImDumb Jun 08 '23
Where abouts are you from? I was near Drayton Valley in AB when it was evacuated, fuckin crazy man
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u/Blankcarbon Jun 08 '23
Genuine question, what happens now? Are you relocating, do you need to get a new house?
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u/Researcher-Used Jun 09 '23
I was thinking the same thing. Like logistically, what do you do? Can’t sit and wait. There’s no EMT, police, fireman, insurance company, neighbor to give you a bottle of water - nothing.
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u/Intelligent-Rip7639 Jun 09 '23
What caused these fires?
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u/I_Automate Jun 09 '23
Dry conditions, lightning, and definitely more than a few human started. Things like camp fires not properly extinguished, OHVs, downed or shorted power lines
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u/scrotesmacgrotes Jun 08 '23
This shit will melt your tires
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u/Significant_Bar_8267 Jun 09 '23
Yeah, and your car trims, and the skin off your body ....if you come a cross a dead animal in the middle of the road... or a burning tree... or another car... or you car breaks down. Dumb place to be.
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u/GRMMneedsDOGEhelp Jun 08 '23
Damn that’s scary
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u/CropDuster921 Jun 09 '23
Not to mention extremely idiotic. They risked it all to save 40 minutes.
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u/zutonofgoth Jun 09 '23
So many people in Australia have died doing this.
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u/ThaNightcrawler Jun 09 '23
This bggles my mind. I feel like driving into a fire like that here in Australia is like jumping off a 10-storey building. Almost certain death.
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u/OtterEpidemic Jun 10 '23
Yeah, I always knew they were scary, but I was never really scared until the 2009 fires… How little time Kinglake people had after the wind change, and then all their burnt out cars afterward. I can’t imagine driving through this.
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u/queen_beruthiel Jun 10 '23
I will never forget that. We thought my aunty and uncle might have died, until we spotted them in an evacuation centre on the news. There was no time. I'll never forget seeing a desperate father on the television and finding out later that his whole family died in their car.
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u/grosselisse Jun 10 '23
Yep. I was in Diamond Creek at the time and although the fire didn't come quite as far as us, sirens were going off everywhere and the wind was terrifying. My cousin's house at Kinglake burned down and I knew of three people who died up there.
Just....don't mess with fire. Just don't.
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u/Glittering-War-5748 Jun 10 '23
I remember my parents teaching us as little kids appropriate bush fire responses. This ain’t it.
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u/holden_mcg Jun 08 '23
I'll take "places I shouldn't be driving" for $1,000, Alex.
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u/lightweight12 Jun 08 '23
If there were any burning trees fallen on the road they would have had to try and turn around. When they can't see... Maybe when you see fire on the road, TURN AROUND! Don't keep going
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u/True-Wealth Jun 09 '23
This is from Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia. They couldn’t turn around because they were evacuating the area. This is just how quickly and fiercely the fire spread. 150 homes and more than 50 other buildings have been destroyed so far but luckily no one reported missing or hurt.
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u/Pacify_ Jun 09 '23
How most of the people died during Black Saturday, left too late then the fire front overwhelmed them. Horrible way to go
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u/RedDawn850 Interested Jun 09 '23
It’s almost like they tell people not to drive into smoke….
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u/AutisticFingerBang Jun 09 '23 edited Jun 09 '23
It seems to be a pretty wide road, they also had a test dummy/someone to follow ahead of them. Also I seems to be a highway so they’d be driving against traffic. Doesn’t seem to be much but once in the smoke you could turn around and head on someone on your way out. Then you’re really fucked. Gotta haul ass.
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u/MochiSauce101 Jun 08 '23
Tires are melting for sure
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u/unbridledmeh000 Jun 09 '23
You run a serious risk of starving your engine of oxygen or overheating doing this, the risk of your car stalling and you becoming stranded in the middle of a fire like this are way too high to be comfortable watching this..
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u/Champion_Of-Cyrodiil Jun 09 '23
This should be the top comment for this post. I feel like people dont understand how stupid and dangerous this was. People seriously underestimate how hot it can be that close to a forrest fire, couple that with low/no visibility, and the fact the they have no idea how long they need to drive to get out of the fire, and this is almost a death sentence.
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u/SexyMonad Jun 09 '23
I’ve driven near a small forest fire, much like 0:08 in this video, but probably twice as far away. It was surprisingly hot. Even with windows up it felt like I was standing right next to a bonfire.
These people were absolutely in an oven.
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u/Butthole__Pleasures Jun 09 '23
Most people know fire in the form of campground fire pits and roaring fireplaces at most. The human brain can scarcely even comprehend the force of fire on a truly disaster level. Wildfires can be like hurricane-level energy machines. Just monumental, throwing 6" thick tree branches for miles, 150 mph wind fuckin TITANS. And this was pretty calm, comparatively.
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u/1forthebooks Jun 09 '23
The bushfire in my home town in Canberra Australia when I was a kid was the first time a fire tornado was caught on film in history apparently.
They could see a clear path of where the tornado went in the aftermath due to kilometres of flattened trees.
What you say about it being a titan is so true because wildfires seriously feel like they're a living being bent on nothing but destruction.
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u/SerratedFrost Jun 09 '23
The way I imagine it is basically, if you've ever been down wind from a decent sized bonfire and thought "damn that's hot" and moved out of the way
This would be like that but worse and there's no moving out of the way
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u/WontBeAbleToChangeIt Jun 09 '23
If they rear ended that car hard enough to disable their vehicle they would have been in a very dangerous situation. Couple intense smoke, dangerously high temperatures with moving fire on top of other “haul ass bro” idiots hitting them - the chance of death goes waaay up
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u/Kailaylia Jun 09 '23
Far too many Australian families have been roasted in their cars trying to escape forest fires. I pity the rescuers later, finding car after car containing blackened remains.
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u/Miserable_Phone_721 Jun 09 '23
As someone who has had to evacuate from a city burning down from a forest fire, sometimes you don’t have a choice. You are being mandatory evacuated by police, you can’t just sit at home and wait for it to pass. It may be a dangerous option but it could have been the only option! I hope they made it out okay
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u/Kind-Contact3484 Jun 09 '23
In Australia they do the exact opposite of this. You are given evacuation orders sometimes days in advance of a fire. If you choose to stay and defend your property, an emergency warning is issued as the fire approaches which means to seek shelter in place and that it is too late to leave. Too many people die on roads trying to escape fires when they get overwhelmed, sometimes causing a chain effect of blocked roads for others doing the same thing.
If you are going to ignore early warnings (watch and act) you MUST be prepared to defend at your property.
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u/AptoticFox Jun 09 '23
You are given evacuation orders sometimes days in advance of a fire.
The first evacuation order was given within hours of the fire starting.
Sunday
15:30 - Fire crews arrive in area responding to reported fire.
16:02 - RCMP issue advisory to evacuate.
17:13 - Emergency alert. Evacuation order.
18:08 - Emergency alert. Evacuation order, expanded area.
19:41 - Emergency alert. Evacuation order, expanded area.
22:19 - Emergency alert. Evacuation order, expanded area.
23:05 - Local state of emergency declared.
Monday
12:49 - DNR) pins the current spread of the wildfire at 788 hectares and “out of control.” With winds gusting up to 40km/h throughout the day.
https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/a-timeline-of-the-upper-tantallon-wildfire-30877859
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u/unbridledmeh000 Jun 09 '23
I absolutely understand that there are situations where you will not have a choice. This is why I said that seeing it makes me uncomfortable, and I didn't do the typical reddit response of scolding these people. It's just good info to know.
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u/silikus Jun 09 '23
Exactly. The whole time watching this i'm like "unless this is an evacuation, why the fuck are you driving through 'blind me, stall me and burn me daddy' conditions"
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u/Barky_Bark Jun 09 '23
Forest fires are unbelievably hot. A few years back one small one started like a kilometre from my apartment, burned for a couple hours then was put out with a bomber. I went the next day and trees were still hot to the touch.
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u/BlueCheeseNutsack Jun 09 '23
I’ll always remember that picture of a car that literally melted in a wild fire. Frame and all.
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u/Etchbath Jun 09 '23
There was one like that in California a few years ago, but it also had a fucking skeleton sitting in the driver's seat. The whole scene looked like a nuke went off. I'll never forget that.
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u/National-Chemical752 Jun 08 '23
Crazy how people can do this. I'd be terrified to even move.
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u/iamjapanman Jun 09 '23 edited Jun 09 '23
There’s video of some guy in the California fires that survived because he ran from his car when the cars got trapped. The others that decided to stay in the car because they thought were safer perished. The guy that survived returned to his car afterwards and found dead bodies in burnt cars.
Edit: found the video link Obviously, NSFL!! You’ve been warned.
Edit 2: putting up NSFL warning.
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u/BlairClemens3 Jun 09 '23
I suggest not watching. I made it 10 seconds
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u/CandyyPiink Jun 09 '23
Thanks for the warning. Just watched a video of someone dying from a shark attack. I think I'll spare my brain from any more unnecessary stress
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u/iamjapanman Jun 09 '23
Sorry, I’ll put up a nsfl warning just in case my description wasn’t enough.
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u/CandyyPiink Jun 09 '23
Well, you literally described him finding dead bodies, but I tend to unintentionally gloss over details sometimes or assume it can't be that bad. The extra warning from the other user was helpful. Appreciate you editing it for others, though!
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u/Pit_of_Death Jun 09 '23
Was that the one from the fire in Paradise (Camp Fire)? I remember seeing one from that fire and having to take a moment afterwards to gather myself.
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u/Dirtcartdarbydoo Jun 08 '23
If this is from where I'm from then it moved so fast alot of people had to if they wanted to get home. Or sadly in some cases they weren't allowed to go home.
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u/TheCraziestMoose Jun 08 '23 edited Jun 08 '23
Looks extremely dangerous. Wouldn’t do it unless I had to evacuate and there was no other way…
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u/Malcom_Ecstacy Jun 08 '23
I'm assuming most people are evacuating that are driving through this. Doubt they are doing it just for funsies
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u/TempestuousDay Jun 09 '23
Not these two, went in with a big camera to take pictures
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u/hysys_whisperer Jun 09 '23 edited Jun 09 '23
I mean if I was forced to evacuate through that, you bet your ass there'd be a camera rolling.
Preferably live streaming so there'd be a record of how I died if I didn't make it through.
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u/TempestuousDay Jun 09 '23
Not gonna link to his IG but he said he was there to film. They were not being evacuated
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u/The_Lorax7 Jun 08 '23
This fire was the Westwood/Hammonds plains fire in Nova Scotia last week. It spread very quickly and this is footage of people evacuating. I live in an adjacent subdivision and also had to evacuate but luckily the wind carried it the other way.
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u/concentrated-amazing Jun 08 '23
Just going to comment that the title should narrow down the place a leeeetle bit more than "Canada".
I'm in Alberta. We've had like 60-90 wildfires at any given time in our province alone in the past couple months.
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u/MaitreMarionnettiste Jun 09 '23
I live in Quebec and a village in the middle of nowhere in the wood with 36 habitant trying to keep their village with waterpomping the lake, so this is all times in the news recently, the you have à tips where the video where taken?
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u/BasilAny6784 Jun 08 '23
Actually, when we get a lot of rain - we end up with beautiful hills full of green, purple, orange and yellows. Then, by May, it’s all overgrown brown fire food.
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Jun 08 '23
Like trying to find your way to the Spirit Temple for the first time.
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u/newuseronhere Jun 08 '23
Is a dumb thing to do, don’t do this . Visibility drops off and increases chance of hitting stuff. Signed Australia
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u/Tommi_Af Jun 09 '23
As an Australian who remembers how many people died doing this back in 2009, this is something you should avoid doing AT ALL COSTS!!!!!!! Like seriously, those guys are bloody lucky to be alive after that! Never drive into a bushfire!
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u/Chronic_In_somnia Jun 08 '23
Ok now I know to put hazard flashers on when driving through wildfires
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u/GondorsAide Jun 09 '23 edited Jun 09 '23
Okay I don’t know if this needs to be said but I will regardless.
Do not drive into a bushfire. You will get trapped. You will die.
I think people are under the illusion that the car’s impenetrable and won’t burn for a while but they expire incredibly quickly in those conditions.
Edit- a word
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u/aqva002 Jun 09 '23
Nobody has really experienced hot concrete or smoking out of their engine and by then it’s too late. The smoke and heat will kill within a few minutes of trying to run away. It is like being in a huge camp fire.
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u/DaddyBurton Jun 08 '23
Been through a really bad wild fire like this when I was a kid. Felt like I was catching on fire from inside the car.
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u/greenmeensgo60 Jun 08 '23
The animals 😢 omg 😭
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u/shit_username5480 Jun 08 '23
Its devastating. During Australia's last horrific fire season of 2019-20 on the south East coast, a lady had no other way of getting to her husband who had stayed at their property to fight for it, other than a long stretch of beach that was the only thing not burning.
She says she's blocked out so much trauma, but remembers kangaroos literally launching themselves out of the bush on her left, on fire, jumping into the sea. I have never been able to get that image out of my head.46
u/Kind-Contact3484 Jun 09 '23
Worst for me was after the fires had past, driving through the mountain back home with hundreds of cattle dead against the farm fences where they were trapped. Our local face book page had farmers pleading for ammo because they didn't have enough to euthanise their suffering livestock. The army quickly dug mass graves with bulldozers to bury them.
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u/Significant_Bar_8267 Jun 09 '23
Yes, Ash Wednesday here in SA was like that too. All these dead animals in the corner of the paddocks. Awful. Our cows moved themselves into an old quarry and survived. Everything else in that back paddock was burnt.
When one of our neighbours evacuated. He saw his 2 cows in their dam.
One old girl, Betty, stopped to free their pet goat as they were evacuating. She died from the smoke.
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u/shit_username5480 Jun 09 '23
Did you guys have any property damage?
I think there are so many people carrying serious trauma from Ash Wed and Black Sat still today. I can't imagine witnessing it firsthand
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u/maddi164 Jun 09 '23
Fuck reading that gave me the chills, I don’t think there’s a single Australian who doesn’t have a little trauma from what our country went through in summer of 19/20. What a catastrophe, I’m from the south coast, so can still see the remnants of what happened years on
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u/DaMirage Jun 09 '23
Craziest thing is the predators all tend to magrate away from the fire so you get an explosion of rodent populations because there's nothing to keep them at bay. Nature eh
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u/sookie_baby_ Jun 08 '23
Any Australians face palming right now? It’s giving black Saturday, lucky their tyres didn’t melt. Morons.
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u/WB2005 Jun 09 '23
Is it me or do us Australians seem to be safest when it comes to bushfires
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u/sookie_baby_ Jun 09 '23
I’m Indigenous and here we used our methods of back burning to pretend this. Sometimes it does happen though and it’s devastating with our climate.
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u/nyafff Jun 09 '23
Bruh I keep scrolling trying to figure out why the fuck are they there?! One gust of wind in the wrong direction and embers are flying everywhere, this is absolute stupidity.
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u/IAmNickReynolds Jun 09 '23
People need to stop encouraging this. You get trapped in there you die, but if you can get through to someone, somebody has to risk their necks to pull your dumb ass out of there.
Humans need to have more respect for nature, period.
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u/aqva002 Jun 09 '23
They go until the road is blocked off. Then it’s a matter of “is anyone watching?” Same thing happens with climbing tall mountains or boating without checking the winds and waves.
I used to put out weather warnings and someone once asked me if they should get out of the pool when there was a lightning storm over them. From then on it really hit me how stupid people are when it comes to nature.
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u/No_Eye_7206 Jun 08 '23
Video is from last week in Halifax ns, the video was on the local news Rain came and fire is out weo
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u/Wazza17 Jun 09 '23
Our thoughts are with our Canadian friends in these difficult times. In Australia we are only too aware of horrors of bushfires. Keep safe
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u/Shirolicious Jun 08 '23
That is so dangerous. I’ve seen other situations where the wind suddenly turns or whatever and basically a firewall crossing the roads torching anything along the way. Can’t recall exactly where I saw it but there were like many cars stuck in traffic when that happened so alot of people basically died being burned alive.
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u/flightwatcher45 Jun 08 '23
Should have turned around before it was too late
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u/NWplinking Jun 08 '23
Yeh we had people in my area punching through spots just like this to get home and grab stuff only to get trapped and quite a few didn't make it back out.
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u/ResolveMuch Jun 08 '23
Respect how calm these guys are,....there is more stress and tears flowing, trying to find a parking spot at Costco, with the wife co-piloting!
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u/quarkito Jun 08 '23
Please never drive through roads with fire all around. Something similar happened in portugal years ago. Dozens of people died in one road.
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u/MichelleAntonia Jun 09 '23
For us Californians, this was like four years in a row. Total insanity, but, unfortunately, you get used to it. Good luck, Canada, you're gonna need it.
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u/WhydYouGotToDoThis Jun 09 '23
If I was in a zone with no visibility whatsoever, would it be bad that my first instinct would to lay on the horn when at a complete stop just so people dont ram the back of my car?
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u/fortalyst Jun 09 '23
Fuck what a dumb thing to do.... there's so much that can go wrong with your car in these conditions and you can end up being cooked
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u/MooseJawMinion Jun 08 '23
The town of Tumbler Ridge BC, up in the northeast of the province was put on evacuation order today, June 8.
My appreciation and gratitude goes out to everyone who is out there fighting these fires. It's going to be a long summer.
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u/150steps Jun 10 '23
Dangerous AF. Don't do it. Many ppl have died that way in Australia, trying to leave, too late.
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u/ashemoney Jun 08 '23
Visibility drops to zero… “Haul ass bro”!