[AT] Burn bans

Thu Apr 23 05:42:06 PDT 2020

The burn bans were implemented for a number of reasons.

Most fire departments also run Emergency Medical Services as well as typical Fire/Rescue.  With that being said firefighters in some areas are getting infected with Covid (over 50 in New Orleans) leaving fire departments short handed to deal with other emergencies.

The smoke from these fires exasperates issues with breathing problems for folks that have Covid and other respiratory issues.

It’s also about adding a layer of social distancing in an attempt to limit interaction with possibly infected people by firefighters and further short staffing of departments for more dire emergencies.  And of course lessening the possibility that an infected firefighter would pass on the virus as well.

In my department’s case we were also short 4 firefighters that would have normally responded due to being embedded in an isolation site for a fire watch patrol 24 hours a day seven days per week.  

Add in the bad weather (tornado’s) the northern part of our state has been hit with in the last 3 weeks creating a different set of problems.  The state activated our Urban Search and Rescue team to respond to the Monroe area last week.

So,  it’s not about exercising power or control, but simply and attempt to not create further issues with fires getting out of control and not having enough people to deal with it “preservation of life and property”.

Hope this helps better understand the issues/concerns we have

Bobby Guilbeau

Chief

Ward 5 Fire Protection District

P.O. Box 120

Turkey Creek, LA  70585

Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

337-461-2962 Office

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Gov Gina Raimondo (D-RI) made national news when she "closed" the RI borders, stationing State Police and National Guard at the borders, at first pulling over every New York plate, and not long after, every out-of-state plate.  The officers would simply remind the occupants that RI had an executive order in place, requiring anyone from out-of-state coming into RI for non-work reasons that 14-day quarantine was mandatory.  So the border wasn't really closed, but many people saw it as overreach and some invoked the Fourth Amendment.  This occurred immediately after the permanent residents of the beachfront communities (RI has something like 400 miles of coastline) started to notice the New Yorkers occupying their summer homes in March.  And then there's the golfer story.  Three men from MA crossed the RI border to play golf.  That's a non-work reason.  They met a RI resident friend at a McDonald's, left the car with MA plates there, and went to the golf course with the friend and his RI plates.  For some reason (I still wonder about this) the McD's employees called the police, and when they returned, they were arrested and charged with a misdemeanor.  Fourth Amendment?

https://turnto10.com/news/local/three-massachusetts-men-charged-with-violating-ri-executive-order-to-play-golf

BOY are we ever off-topic.

SO

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 7:30 AM rbrooks at hvc.rr.com <mailto:rbrooks at hvc.rr.com>  <rbrooks at hvc.rr.com <mailto:rbrooks at hvc.rr.com> > wrote:

They did something similar in NY. Lake Placid and the towns around it have closed Bed and Breakfast and rental property 
They didn’t want people from high infection areas coming into that area

Bob

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On Apr 23, 2020, at 6:54 AM, Roger Moffat <rogerkiwi at gmail.com <mailto:rogerkiwi at gmail.com> > wrote:

On Apr 22, 2020, at 11:13 PM, Dennis Johnson <moscowengnr at outlook.com <mailto:moscowengnr at outlook.com> > wrote:

One example of this absurdity is people in Michigan cannot go to there vacation homes based on the reasoning that the extra fuel used at gas pumps will increase exposure for health care workers who needed to fuel up. 

It’s also about keeping the people from the sicker populations from taking the virus up north to the people living there where there are far fewer medical resources - hospital and ICU beds etc.

Roger

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