Why say such a thing? Because, as CNN presenter Don Lemon was transporting live from the fire to Lviv, a firefighter behind him was wearing a coat with “EDMONTON” written on the back. But this is not a fish. There is a good reason that a firefighter in Lviv would wear an “EDMONTON” coat. First facts: The “EDMONTON” coat was donated to firefighters in Ukraine by firefighters in Edmonton. An Edmonton-based nonprofit called Firefighter Aid Ukraine has donated “several hundred” sets of Edmonton attendance equipment to Ukraine, plus hundreds of additional attendance kits from other communities, project founder and director Kevin Royle told CNN. Edmonton’s own firefighter. Sunday. The coat that appears on CNN “came from our program, for sure,” Royle said. And there is no doubt that Russia attacked the fuel plant in Lviv. the defense ministry publicly confirmed the strike on Sunday. Fireighter Aid Ukraine, founded in 2015, has been supporting Lviv firefighters for years. On Monday, the nonprofit brought to the surface again a photo it had originally posted on Facebook in 2017 – of its team in Lviv handing out a coat with “EDMONTON” written on the back, just like the one we saw on CNN on Saturday. Canadian broadcasters CBC and Global News published stories in 2017 about this Firefighter Aid Ukraine donation trip. “Do you see ‘Edmonton’ on the back of the jacket? No conspiracy,” Fireighter Aid Ukraine reported on Monday about the 2017 photo. “Our friends and fellow firefighters are inside. [harm’s] Royle said CNN Saturday’s coverage of the Lviv fire showed three firefighters were donating Edmonton equipment, although only one coat read “EDMONTON.” The Edmonton fire brigade posted a message on Facebook on Monday confirming that the “EDMONTON” coat shown on CNN was a donation from Edmonton. Ukrainian community, with approximately 160,000 inhabitants of Ukrainian ethnic origin in 2016, according to the Canada 2016 census. Canada has one of the largest Ukrainian populations in the world, with more than 1.3 million people of Ukrainian ethnic origin in 2016. After Russian invasion of Ukraine this year, firefighters in Canada, the US and various other countries have donated equipment to their Ukrainian colleagues.
