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ruet

(10,155 posts)
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:23 AM Aug 28

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire

Source: Seattle Times

Two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula were arrested by federal law enforcement Wednesday, in a confrontation described by firefighters and depicted in photos and video.

Why the two firefighters were arrested is unclear. But a spokesperson for the Incident Management Team leading the firefighting response said the team was “aware of a Border Patrol operation on the fire,” that it was not interfering with the firefighting response and referred reporters to the Border Patrol station in Port Angeles.

Over three hours, federal agents demanded identification from the members of two private contractor crews. The crews were among the 400 people including firefighters deployed to fight the wildfire, the largest active blaze in Washington state.

Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday about the confrontation.

Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/federal-agents-arrest-firefighters-working-on-wa-wildfire/

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DBoon

(24,283 posts)
1. So someone's house might burn down so we can get rid of immigrants
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:26 AM
Aug 28

I only wish it was Stephen Miller's house

GiqueCee

(2,824 posts)
8. Hopefully with Stephen Miller in it...
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 11:41 AM
Aug 28

... history will remember him as one of the most evil psychopaths ever to foul this planet. Unless, of course, someone has the courage to do what needs to be done, and arrest his narrow ass and charge him with treason, and a laundry list of all his other crimes against humanity.

DBoon

(24,283 posts)
15. like Joachim Peiper?
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 01:11 PM
Aug 28
PARIS, July 17 [1976]—Nationwide attention has been focused this week on whether the charred body of a man found in the ruins of a burned‐out house in eastern France was that of a Nazi war criminal.

An anonymous teiepnone caller told the Paris newspaper L'Aurore that it was. The caller said the man had been killed by a group called the Avengers.

But the police in the town of Traves, where the killing took place, did not announce any immediate identification of the man as Joachim Peiper, a 61‐year‐old former colonel in the Waffen SS, or Elite Guard, who served 10 years in prison for his role in the killing of American prisoners in the World War II battle of Ardennes.


https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/18/archives/french-study-apparent-slaying-of-former-nazi.html

Jilly_in_VA

(13,049 posts)
2. Hasn't Mexico sent firefighters
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:34 AM
Aug 28

to help us put out wildfires? So if this means they will stop sending them and we are on our own, good luck with that. We'll end up in the same position Russia is with Siberia, which has been on fire for the past 5 years because all the firefighters are in Ukraine and there's nobody there to fight them but women, children, and old men.

riversedge

(77,794 posts)
5. Yes, Mexico has sent firefighters to the U.S. to assist with wildfire efforts, notably sending a team of 100 firefighter
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 11:30 AM
Aug 28

I thought I had remembered that yes-Mexico has sent firefighters to the US.


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Yes, Mexico has sent firefighters to the U.S. to assist with wildfire efforts, notably sending a team of 100 firefighters to California in January 2025 to help combat devastating wildfires and previously in December 2022 for an international collaboration on fire suppression skills and practices. This collaboration highlights the solidarity and shared responsibility between the two countries in addressing transboundary threats like wildfires.
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Cloudhopper

(133 posts)
3. He has some revenge to exact on Washington
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 11:13 AM
Aug 28

And is willing to kill Americans to get it. That's how I see it, anyway.

Judge Coughenour was the first judge in the nation to rule against a Trump policy this year (birthright citizenship), and the state sued for billions in disaster aid that was cut.

There's probably more.

not fooled

(6,467 posts)
11. WA is the only state where support for Krasnov dropped in the 2024 election
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 11:52 AM
Aug 28

So yeah, would make sense WA is on his revenge list.

Miguelito Loveless

(5,207 posts)
4. This is part of the plan to sabotage Blue states
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 11:16 AM
Aug 28

operations with selective enforcement of Trump's "laws".

GiqueCee

(2,824 posts)
10. It is also part of the plan...
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 11:47 AM
Aug 28

... to do what Putin told him to do: Destroy America from within, alienate our allies, and make us a pariah on the world stage. Trump cares nothing about America, absolutely nothing. Trump cares about Trump. No one else. He'll throw his children under the bus without a second thought if it will benefit him.

SunSeeker

(56,688 posts)
9. Sounds like what Border Patrol did is illegal.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 11:43 AM
Aug 28

Last edited Thu Aug 28, 2025, 01:05 PM - Edit history (1)

It is unlawful to interfere with firefighters in California and many other jurisdictions, as state and local laws often prohibit actions that obstruct, hinder, or resist firefighters in the performance of their duties. These firefighters were at the site of a major fire here in California. Violations are typically classified as misdemeanors, though some actions, particularly those involving violence or threats, can be charged as felonies. https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-148-2/

Bev54

(12,886 posts)
12. So much for international firefighters wanting to help US firefighters.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:04 PM
Aug 28

Unbelievable.

angrychair

(11,152 posts)
16. As I said in another OP
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 01:15 PM
Aug 28

I did wildfire for a decade as a member of type 1, 2 and 3 incident management teams. Hispanic line crews are very...very...common in Washington. If those people go to ground and stop showing up at incidents we are in a lot of trouble. We could not fight wildfires in the PNW without Hispanic line crews. That's not an opinion but a fact.

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