Once again, anyone flying a drone illegally in an area with a TFR due to wildfire activity should be held financially liable for all damages (including increased suppression costs) resulting from the spread of the fire while air operations are suspended.
As a life long visitor to the Cedar Breaks and Panguitch Lake area, as well as a Native Southeren Californian that has experienced first hand the devastation of wild fires do to uncontrolled growth, drought, wind, and high temperatures, and above all, human carelessness, I am in full agreement with the writer of this statement. Is it not only harrowing enough that men and women risk their lives in an attempt to save other’s lives foremost, and propetry to boot? Its infuriating to know that someone essentially would put other people’s livelihoods and existence at risk so they can record just a meager moment of an event of such magnitude and destruction, and for what?…to post it on Facebook or upload it to Youtube for likes and hits!? I only hope that these clowns do post and upload what they so thought was “Fair and Balanced” video footage of this catastrophic incident so that they can in turn be traced, hunted down, found, and have charges brought against them. I speak only a portion out of anger but mostly out of shame and sorrow that an individual or individuals who may hold that part of our heritage and history, as I too have family DNA burried in those grounds, in such a high and sacred regard, would perpatrate such a careless but yet extentially dangerous act and undermine the efforts of so many “humans” trying to save and preserve what I believe to be, hands down, THE most perfect combination of man and creation, the closest I’ve been to Heaven in this broken, scorched, careless world. Not everyone from Southern California is a “bird and bunny lover”, or a “tree hugger”, or my personal favorite…”rock licker”.
I just saw an “adventure” video posted on you tube of a man and his two sons exploring (sneaking in to) the Brian’s Head fire area. What a fool. Not only is he endangering his young sons and himself, he is making more work for those exhausted and hardworking men and women who have to take the time to chase him out of the area. Infuriating. I would like to see him tracked down and fined. He even goes so far as to put on a yellow vest to “fit in” and lets his sons out on a hill to help/dump water on a hot spot surrounded by standing, burnt trees.