2024 Tropical Weather Thread

And for what it's worth, the guy is a fire chief, but he's also a human being that likely had his home and the home of everyone he knows destroyed. Not to mention that the way of life he had in that little tourist town is likely over. So, he likely was not thinking particularly straight and likely had very little sleep while all this was happening. It was a bad decision, but those happen in those situations. I don't envy the people who are expected to be fully functional at times like those and I don't expect that a fire chief in Lake Lure ever expected anything close to this to happen.
I'd love to think this is a one time issue but law enforcement, particularly in small towns have a lot of Cartmans every day. It's this insane culture that has been allowed to grow like a tumor.

1 state in the USA has a law that protects the first amendment with media access. This doesn't happen there. The rest it does.