My town burning last night thanks to the military
 

So, it's always hot and dry here during the summer and the countryside is closed to people due to the high risk of forest fires, but the military decided even so to carry on with live round training despite the 33oC heat and 90km/h southerly hot wind....

Here was the result, taken last night in the early hours... :mad::mad::mad:

http://borkedcoder.com/images/fire/1.jpg
http://borkedcoder.com/images/fire/2.jpg
http://borkedcoder.com/images/fire/3.jpg
http://borkedcoder.com/images/fire/4.jpg
http://borkedcoder.com/images/fire/5.jpg
http://borkedcoder.com/images/fire/6.jpg
http://borkedcoder.com/images/fire/7.jpg
http://borkedcoder.com/images/fire/8.jpg
http://borkedcoder.com/images/fire/9.jpg
http://borkedcoder.com/images/fire/10.jpg
http://borkedcoder.com/images/fire/11.jpg
http://borkedcoder.com/images/fire/12.jpg

damn that sucks.

i hate to say it, but i dont think some of the people in the military (including a lot in the US) are really that bright or should be able to carry a gun

I just watched that on the news. It was part of the Légion Étrangère/french foreign legion right?

Fuckin morons :2 cents:

Jeezus, that's nuts.

Good pics, though. Too bad the military is short on brains. Heads should roll for that fuck-up.

big fire!

watched it on the news just now

sell your photos to the CNN

Is that in Spain?

damn thats a big fire

Those are great photos. Hopefully whoever signed off on that one gets fired. :(

where is that damn!

Nah, did better than that - uploaded a tonne to AFP news agency and they took 3 - total ?1200

I was really pissed though as I took my camcorder and pulled it out as they were evacuating an old folks home with flames licking the roof tiles only to find out the fucking battery was dead :Oh crap Shame cos they take video footage (on semi pro cam too) for a fortune.

Still, not bad for a couple of hours between 2-4am

fuckin morons

the fucking idiot got suspended - I mean jesus. Of course, he's made the scapegoat cos now the legion camp is saying they said no live training.... but of course this captain went against them.

N'mind though, cos his name is out on the news, so the Marseille lynch mob will have him :winkwink:

What is that, Japanese?

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Last year we had one of the worst Fire Season's ever, and lost almost 33,000 acres to a fire in the Everglades... one week prior to that huge fire, a U.S. Navy jet sparked a 257-acre forest fire in the Ocala National Forest in the north-central part of the state. The jet had missed a target on a practice bombing run, the officials said.

So i totally understand, where you are coming from...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8164330.stm

AFP photo *cough*

Haven't seen any of the other two come out yet.

hmmm... where do i apply for adding footage to them?

We've set a few fires on firing ranges out in California in the military

I just searched for "How to submit pictures to {Reuters}{AFP}" and found the pages -
I submitted to [email protected] and [email protected]
not sure reuters go my photos cos I didn't even get an auto-reply from them - maybe my server was blackholed :1orglaugh

AFP called me back though (was in bed) and left 2 messages and emailed me, so when I got up, I knew I was in fr a good day :upsidedow

The fire was finally under control by midday and so they let me no in the afternoon that they weren't going to use the other photos I submitted, so I released them to GFY FoC*

--edit
Free of Charge, not Free of Copyright, you freeloaders ;)

La Legion etrangere pardi
sacre bleu

Wow, thats some nasty shit right there... :warning:Oh crap

yeah, and it happened in the region too here last year - those fuckers really need to be kept on a leash.

We get lots of forest fires each summer, but they just burn forests, but because of the unusual southerly wind (which is usually northerly), the flames came inland toward civilisation and so Marseille being the second biggest city in France, this shit has hit the fan.

For once, it wasn't fucktards doing barbecues in the country

many people in army are there only because judge gave them option of military service or jail, look up the criminal records of people serving and stats based on those who have criminal background, i think its over 12% now lol

(fletch on lappy)

That's cool man. :thumbsup

Sucks about the fire tho.

thanks for the info - i better have a camera with me from now on :winkwink:

Nice photos but to bad about the way they were made.

time to go on holiday