Oh the irony! Guess all that diversity was not respected by the fire.
I think a better vetting and training program was required.
Not the Bee
Ironic, because breaking down barriers is one thing female fire fighters can't do very well...
Jane Park, the female "fire management specialist" who helped organize the conference, described the group of women who accidentally started the forest fire as the "cream of the crop."
Well, that's encouraging...
There was a video in the 1990s or early 2000s of females trying out for the LA fire dept, it was hilarious watching them trying to put up ladders and get over walls.
Unfortunately, I have never been able to find it on youtube.
Nope. Too easy.
I remember a Frank & Ernest cartoon years ago about planning a “controlled eruption” of Mt. Vesuvius. That didn’t go well, either.
DIE, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity. Reap what you sow.
Normal citizens would have been Arrested, Charged and Prosecuted then be held liable in civil court for all damages.
THIS NEEDS TO CHANGE!! NOBODY deserves or should ever receive any type of Immunity, if it’s a good law, then EVERYONE should be held to it.
And all they were trying to do was light a bonfire, make S’mores, and trade hair braiding tips.
Banff is the most beautiful place in Canada. If you see some Canada pictures, there will be some of Banff there.
Well, I guess it was the most beautiful place!
Sounds very stylish.
So many empty kitchens.....
If the cave men had to go through all this break down barriers, all different genders & diversity nonsense we probably wouldn’t be talking about this now. The human race would’ve gone extinct long ago.
“Burin’ Down The House!”
How in the world did they manage to do that in early May in Banff? That's not just ordinary incompetence there.
"Diversity", as the concept is currently understood, has negative value,
I checked to see if this was a Babylon Bee article after reading the first paragraph. Nope. It appears this really happened. LOL
Did they have to call in some masculine swinging...uh...swinging hoses to help battle the fire?
In the early ‘80s I spent my summers fighting fires in British Columbia. One year I got hired onto the biggest fire of the year near the small town Canal Flats, not too far from Banff.
A couple of days after my arrival the fire bosses decided a back burn was in order. By sheer chance I walked by the truck they were loading with equipment and one of them said to me, “Hey, you, jump in the back.”
We drove into an area untouched by fire and they strapped a piss-can filled with diesel to me, lit the nozzle and said, “Walk that way about a hundred yards and come back.” I did so and we headed back down the mountain.
The wind chose not to cooperate. Within 48 hours the fire doubled in size.
Again by sheer chance, when the two fires merged I was being moved in a helicopter at about 1000 ft. and a couple of miles from the merge point. I had the perfect view of something few people have seen.
I had read about the firestorm in Dresdan during the war but I never expected to see one. A tornado of fire at least 2,000 ft. tall. Entire trees, root systems intact, were sucked up into it and incinerated, I saw none of them return to the ground.
And my hands had caused it. Not my decisions, but my hands.