Firefighters shot at for not helping cat

[pax]

Now, here's a kittycat that really could have used some help from 911 ...

http://www.thisistrue.com/bearcat.html

pax

 

[sm]

Art's Grammaw has a soapy wash cloth in hand and is tapping her foot ...just over there

'Hi Grammaw'
"Hi Steve"
"I didn't type it"
"I see that , okay to think it, just don't type it"

I'm such a good wittle boy - sometimes...

 

[TallPine]

I am not excusing the landowners behavior - just giving my perspective.

To put it even more in perspective... the incident I related occurred out in the middle of of about 30 sections (square miles) of land. It could have been bad though, and spread across his ranch to smaller acreages with homes a few miles away - which is why we called for aerial resources to assist

Our training is to "anchor" the fireline at a safe point and then "flank and pinch" rather than just rushing to the head of the fire and trying to stop it head-on. A bunch of trees sure ain't worth dying for.

Worst part was that we are pretty sure some of the landowner's guests started the fire

The whole point is that any kind of emergency responder has to be alert to potential hazards from people as well as directly from the incident itself