While the images of Canadian helicopters shooting fire at the forest are real, they aren’t nearly as sinister as the captions suggest. There’s practically nothing in the network news on Thursday, June 8 except the smoke from Canadian wildfires. If you scroll over to Twitter there’s nothing but tinfoil hat conspiracy “click-bait” about the same fires, just screaming to be debunked. Folks in the Northeast aren’t used to wildfire smoke and they’re so freaked out they’re afraid to turn on the air conditioner. It must be intentional, the tabloid tweets insist.
Fire delivered by helicopters
The fire is huge and out of control but it wasn’t set intentionally, as part of some Deep State conspiracy. All across the North Eastern United States on Thursday, “the sky is orange.” Democrats who need reassurance about everything are considering it a sign of the end times. “Smoke from Canadian wildfires has tens of millions of Americans under strict air advisory warnings.”
It’s so bad that New York City has the “second worst air quality in the world yesterday, behind only Delhi.” That’s because, right now, “there are still more than 150 active fires across Canada.” One or two may be “intentionally” set but not all of them, as suggested by social media.
The fires “have been causing problems since May, but a recent video of a flame-throwing helicopter over the Canadian forest has some conspiracy theorists wondering if they were intentional, or at the very least lit intentionally with negligence.” You can label that one “FALSE” and scroll on to something important.
There are a ton of videos claiming that the Canadian fires were intentionally started.
This one has 7 MILLION views.
It's just a planned burned using a heli-torch. Similar lies have circulated about other fires
v: businesscord56 #wildfires #7m pic.twitter.com/RhiZBGgmNd
— Conspiracy Theorists of TikTok (@KooksOfTok) June 8, 2023
Like the $10 million paid to the Biden family by the owner of Burisma, as alleged by the nefarious FD-1023 form which Christopher Wray was almost, but not quite, ready to go to jail over. The FBI’s dumpster fire is what the media should really be covering.
Along with one version of the video comes the caption “That’s how your fire started.” It’s attached to an account by businesscord56. Hurricane Himothy (@shrebb) re-tweeted it with the note “anyone else see the helicopter in canada dropping flaming debris into the forest starting fires?” without bothering to use capital letters.
If you don’t buy into that tinfoil hat conspiracy, there are lots of others to choose from. For instance, “another video shows a satellite image of smoke from multiple locations billowing at the same time, adding fuel to the conspiracy theorist’s fire.”
They did it with lasers
Of course, the Deep State used lasers to ignite all the fires simultaneously. If it wasn’t the Deep State or China then it had to be those pesky space aliens. Why else was the Pentagon asking for help figuring out those shiny spheres which defy physics and almost collide with military jets? While the facts are that there are a lot of fires, which started at roughly the same time over vast areas, it’s important to note that the weather conditions were exactly right for that to happen, no conspiracy required.
It’s also important that the fires started in literally the middle of nowhere. People started fires generally happen where there are people. One fire or a few may have been started by careless campers but lightning is the confirmed culprit for the vast majority. Lightning strikes are easy to track and they’re watched closely. The data backs it all up.
As for the buckets of flaming embers carried tree-to-tree by chopper they’re real. Several professional firefighters came out to vocally explain the use of “backfires” which are controlled fires set “regularly to help combat massive forest fires like the ones currently underway.”
Why did all the fires start at the same time? Climate change? https://t.co/73fhGYqu5N
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) June 7, 2023
Facoughwef with 33 years of fire fighting service commented “gotta love these comments by people who have never fought any forest fires. So yes, there is a video of a helicopter starting fires. But no, it is not the cause of the smoke covering the northern United States.”
All across the Western U.S., they’re laughing at the amateurs. Smoke from one fire or another generally fogs western skies for days or weeks at a time every summer, generally ruining everyone’s ability to breathe.
The combination of low humidity, dried out undergrowth and lightning strikes are a sure recipe for wildfires. That’s what happened this time, just on a large scale.
