The CBC story provides better background.
“He’s not going to be able to come back. I think that the community’s not going to allow him to return,” said Race, adding she’s heard concerns in the community about vigilantes.
The guy isn’t in court until March, and he’s only facing 6 months of jail time. His name is published everywhere.
Dude’s certified boned. Of all the communities I’d want to piss off by burning down their little homes on their cozy slice of mostly untouched nature, rural Nova Scotians are near the bottom of the list.
I hope as a country we’re better prepared next year than we were this year passed with record Canadian wildfires. Based on weather patterns (e.g., mild winter, many fires still blazing), I think we’ll have just as bad of a year of forest fires this summer unfortunately. I think we need to a culture change to act as if we’re in drought conditions going forward. There needs to be more public education about fire safety, there might be a way to improve reporting (like a hotline the person in this news story could have called if/when they realized things were out of control), and I think we need a lot more actual firefighting assets. I think it might make sense to proactively re-allocate military resources to forest firefighting, perhaps as a pilot project this spring
There were calls for a national firefighting organization (which apparently every other G7 nation has).
I think we need to a culture change to act as if we’re in drought conditions going forward.
Seems pretty reasonable. Apparently houses in fire-prone areas should be built in a certain way: metal roofs, surrounded by a gravel firebreak of a meter or two, then a larger firebreak of short-cut lawn. Woodpiles should be kept at a distance from structures. Ensuring our buildings have passive defense seems much safer than putting firefighters in harms way.
The Hammond’s Plane subdivision only had one exit, and houses were built right into the forest. I think we’ve lost the privilege of living like that.
Dang. The fire got close to my family’s homes. 22 y/o probably won’t get max sentence but this will probably mess up his career aspects.
Max sentence is only 6 months in jail, which doesn’t seem like a lot for the amount of damage caused and the importance of keeping others from doing the same in the future.
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Well, as far as I can determine from the article this wasn’t a deliberate attempt like the guy in Quebec. Every year some amount of forest fires are started by some asshole who didn’t do a proper job of putting their fire out or throwing a lit cigarette butt into dry brush or something like that. Based on the charges I’m thinking this is one of those cases.
Yeah that’s my bad, I was still waking up and misunderstood. Tried to delete my post but Eternity isn’t cooperating… So everyone just ignore my last comment, please!
Doesn’t seem like this one was deliberate based on the charges, but it was on private land which is interesting. Starting a forest fire on accident is still stupid as fuck, but at least it isn’t straight up evil like doing it on purpose. He still deserves the book, though.
