Scotch Creek fire B.C. Testimonials August 23 2023
Submitted by DA
Excerpts from a justice of the peace representing Alliance of Indigenous Nations
VIEW HERE: https://youtu.be/dE5pNwONm1g?si=GCCg_VEHqCU17FKJ( 49:17 mins)
Excerpts edited from transcript:
00:00 to 07:25 mins Police instructed residents to stay on their own property.
09:28 mins Shelter in place, access to resources restricted.
Curfews. Called emergency services for help and they hung up on the caller.
Locals unsupported by government.
Needed gas and restricted from accessing it.
Potential looting was an excuse to restrict people from collaborating, networking.
Missing fire equipment was not stolen, it was borrowed to fight fires and returned.
20:00 mins What do the people need? Communication needs to improve.
Liability is a big issue and it’s creating a power struggle. Who’s right? Who’s wrong? Who will pay? Power struggle delays decisions to escape/minimize liability. There was ample water to put the fire out.
27:00 mins Police overreach. People unable to leave their property to get essential supplies, and restricted from helping wounded neighbors.
The fire brought community together and people across Canada supporting those in the fire area was overwhelming.
29:00 mins Backburn devastation.
30:00 mins UNDRIP, land grab. How lamestream media distorted the truth. Community support impeded by forces whose job is to help.
Adam’s Lake fire was left for 3 days before taking action to put it out. The people who are supposed to be in charge of Forestry and management wildfires they really dropped the ball.
37:45 mins Journalist: Do you know what started the fire?
Resident: I think a lot of deliberate things are going on here. It’s not a natural cause thing. I think it’s deliberate, a hidden agenda. And the chemtrails crisscrossing the sky every night. They’re making this area so flammable and have been doing it for years. They can cloud seed and get the rain going here. We have to bring God back into our life b/c that’s what is most important.
Narrator: God has not abandoned his people or this country however the people have abandoned God and its’ time to bring God back.
Resident. There is a lot of communism going on here. We’re on to them, and we’re going to do everything to bring out the truth and protect each other. Media is controlling people’s thinking and we need to step outside that box and do some critical, logical thinking. This is not normal.
43:00 mins Narrator: There’s 100 people across the lake that want to help and they’re not letting locals in and out to provide food and sustenance for their families so that has to change.
Resident: We need food, water and garbage removal to keep bears that have been displaced too. The authorities have not done what they should do. They should listen to the community who knows best. The winds fueled the back burn and we watched the mountain light up. It looks deliberate. They created a monster.
48:09 mins There are multiple reports of guys with water trucks, with the kids, all going to fight to fire and getting stopped by the cops.