{"id":1392354,"date":"2022-03-21T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392354"},"modified":"2022-03-21T15:15:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:15:22","slug":"fact-check-does-this-photo-show-ukrainian-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-photo-show-ukrainian-firefighters\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Photo Show Ukrainian Firefighters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-photo-show-ukrainian-firefighters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392354&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/OPsNf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows three Ukrainian firefighters covered in ash.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The photo shows Tasmanian firefighters working during the Tasmanian bushfires of 2019, not Ukrainian firefighters.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At least 902 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2022\/03\/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-20-march-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The country has also experienced widespread destruction, with one Ukrainian official estimating the war has cost $100 billion in infrastructure damage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/ukraine-economic-adviser-says-war-damage-tops-100-billion-so-far-2022-03-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/OPsNf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> shows a group of three, seemingly exhausted firefighters covered in ash sitting next to one another. \u201cUkrainian Firefighters,\u201d reads the image\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p>The picture is not from Ukraine and predates the Russian invasion. A reverse image search revealed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=2504493996287494&#038;id=157123894357861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photo<\/a> first appeared in a Feb. 1, 2019 Facebook post from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewolfebrothers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wolfe Brothers<\/a>, an Australian country band. \u201cIf you are unaware currently in Tasmania there is some seriously bad Bush Fires,\u201d reads part of the post\u2019s caption. \u201cNearly 3 percent of the state has been destroyed. A friend sent us this photo.. LOOK at these incredible men, they look like they have been in a war zone!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post went on to identify the firefighters as \u201cJason Luck, John Kroczewski, Paul Catteral.<span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\">\u201d The image is credited to another firefighter named John Lyons. <\/span>The photo was shared by the Australian news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/this-powerful-photo-of-three-exhausted-tasmanian-firefighters-has-gone-viral\/b7xc9c7ss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SBS News<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/photo-of-exhausted-tasmanian-firefighters-goes-viral\/VI76DA2XRLQ3VUUGRWUCDK2WSQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Zealand Herald<\/a> at the time. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/17\/fact-check-american-soldiers-ukraine-parachuting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Footage Show American Soldiers Parachuting Into Ukraine?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 40 fires, ignited by lighting storms between Decemeber 2018 and January 2019, burnt almost 3% of the island of Tasmania, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/firecentre.org.au\/2019-tasmanian-fires-impacts-and-management-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Fire Centre Research Hub (FCHR)<\/a>. About 520 fire crews worked to extinguish the fires throughout the month of January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/gallery\/2019\/feb\/01\/the-destructive-tasmanian-bushfires-2019-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a> reported. The fires were eventually brought under control in the last week of March 2019, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.aidr.org.au\/resources\/2018-19-bushfire-tas-tasmanian-bushfires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time images from a fire have been misattributed to the conflict in Ukraine. Check Your Fact recently <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/11\/fact-check-elderly-man-evacuation-ukraine-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> an image that claimed to show an elderly man attempting to evacuate Ukraine with his cat but actually showed a man fleeing his home in Turkey after it had caught fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows three Ukrainian firefighters covered in ash.Verdict: False The photo shows Tasmanian firefighters working during the Tasmanian bushfires of 2019, not Ukrainian firefighters. 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