While most of the community was safe after the wildfire evacuation there have been a few stories of people acting less than honorably. According to the Wood Buffalo RCMP one of these incidents involved a Quebec contractor who was working in Wood Buffalo. According to the charges filed police investigate a safe in a Beacon Hill home which had been broken into. The home itself was completely destroyed in the disaster, but apparently the 33 year old contractor did not think the residents had lost enough so he broke into a safe that was still in the severely damaged home. The safe turned out to be empty but that did not stop the contractor from being charged for his actions. When someone is evacuated the first instinct is to grab all valuables so it should have been obvious to the contractor that the safe would hold little of value in the first place.

The Beacon Hill safe breaking is just the second arrest that the Wood Buffalo RCMP has had to make since the wildfire evacuation. The first arrest was a 19 year old man who kicked in the front door on two different residences on Waniandy Way. In that case police used a k-9 unit to track the teen back to his parents home where he was arrested. RCMP Superintendent Rob McCloy warned that “We are committed to remaining on the job for you, as we have throughout this challenging time. Make no mistake, the RCMP will protect this community from harm.”