R44 is legit.
Posted on 10/03/2024 9:22:03 AM PDT by Morgana
A volunteer firefighter using his own helicopter to help save Hurricane Helene victims was threatened with an arrest while halfway through helping an elderly couple.
Jordan Seidhom, a former cop and volunteer firefighter, has been using his personal chopper to reach those cut off from rescue teams following the devastating storm.
But while halfway through rescuing an elderly couple in Lake Lure, North Carolina, on Sunday, a senior official with the local fire department told him he would arrest him for doing so.
Seidhom brought his two-seater aircraft down in a parking lot after rescuing Susan Coffey from her her home, while leaving his own son Landon with her husband Michael at their isolated property.
The plan had been for Seidhom to return Susan to safety, before then returning for Landon and Michael in three separate trips, before the fire official threatened to have him arrested, he has claimed. Speaking with WJZY, Seidhom said he touched down in the parking lot after spotting a group of first responders.
When he landed, he said he was confronted by a fire chief who scolded Seidhom for not coordinating with the locally organized rescue efforts.
He said: 'In the middle of the whole conversation, I was greeted by the Lake Lure fire chief, or assistant chief, maybe. And he shut down the whole operation.'
Seidhom said that the official told him 'if you have that kind of experience you should be coordinating with us'.
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Don't mess with your brothers in the fire department, it may be your house that is one fire.
R44 is legit.
This story has been making the rounds for a few days. Glad to see that a bigger publication has picked up on it.
Arrest him for what?
Now he’s George Jetson
Government really isn’t in the “problem solving” business.
Government doesn’t like people who solve problems.
Forever Wars and Endless Problems — that’s where government gets the money.
People in authoriti have to be 100% assholes all the time.
Isn’t it already clear that Fed.gov in DC, and all their paid cronies, hate MAGA deplorables?
They’ve already said so hundreds of times.
For flying when he has been ordered on the ground. Khamahallah seen to that.
Making the incompetent buffoons who call themselves "first responders" look bad ...
There is no reason to close the airspace Because Luders do not come in on planes and helicopters. The only reason they’re doing this is to limit the political fallout from aerial photographs of the disaster being televised.
The Fire Chief and local cops do not control airspace.
The pilot said also about 30 minutes later a TFR popped up. The pricks probably called the FAA.
Also so some idiot cops threatening someone for flying a drone over the flood.
Damned modern “professional” cops and FEMA types. A disaster happens and their immediate response is to crack down on the local survivors and anyone trying to help them.
It was a local fire chief who confronted him. Then he called over a couple of cops also.
I heard the Biden/Harris regime of Treason don’t have money to help the hurricane victims because it was spent on illegals. Can anyone confirm this? They supposedly have only $750 to give each victim
Tape over the N Number or use a fake one. Just like the US Government does.
Well said.
HOW VILE!! He was SAVING PEOPLE!! I will BET that the CHIEF is a DEMOCRAT!!
This is simply control and sensor ship. The govt ent needs to control the narrative no matter the cost to suffering residents. No news in or out until the government says so. Biden Biden .
The chopper pilot should have told them he was helping Haitian asylum seekers.
I was vacationing in Mexico c. 1985 when I had a conversation with a doctor who tried to help the injured in Mexico City after an earthquake. He was threatened with arrest. I remember thinking, THAT would never happen in the United States.....
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