John Bolton - A Statement from Mr. & Mrs. Al Bertan on the garage fire

00:00:00.760 Hey Alberta, Sal. Mrs. Al. How you doing guys? I'm sure by now you've all heard

00:00:08.840 we had a little little emergency here earlier in the week. Had a garage fire

00:00:15.000 back there. We just wanted to get on and straighten out some facts and make sure

00:00:19.760 that everybody knows what the what the real thing is from the horse's mouth so

00:00:25.400 we don't have any more hearsay we've got all kinds of stories going on right now that that aren't

00:00:32.440 true so we just want to set the record straight uh it was an accidental fire it wasn't an arson

00:00:39.480 attempt or anything like that it was just uh working on a car and fuel got sparked and got

00:00:46.440 out of control and the next thing you know the video you saw is what happened so don't uh don't

00:00:53.240 fall for it don't let people talk you into thinking that things are what they

00:00:57.260 aren't it was definitely not a fake fire this is what's left of my phone

00:01:07.120 there's my coffee cup the y'all remember from before a replacement though just

00:01:13.000 got a badger up so it definitely was real you can probably see a little bit

00:01:19.200 I've got a bit of a suntan now and I did manage to keep my elbows down there was no elbows up guys

00:01:26.640 elbows down I went through it with the elbows down and got got my elbows scorched up a little

00:01:31.920 bit too so just wanted to make sure everybody knows we're safe we're sound uh it could have

00:01:39.200 been a lot worse we could have had a lot more damage we lost a few cars uh it wasn't my truck

00:01:46.960 it wasn't the beast that was in the in the garage at the time it was him the beast is safe and sound

00:01:52.800 yeah um i was in there um the missus was in the house or out front cleaning up and uh before i

00:02:01.600 knew it we had like 10 fire trucks and some cops and some ambulances and we had the whole crew here

00:02:08.000 taking care of things and getting her done so just wanted you to be sure that we're safe we're sound

00:02:14.240 and I actually feel bad because I put out the post about the fire and the

00:02:22.760 reason I did so was because I was so worried about keeping you all informed

00:02:28.040 because literally I had just messaged him a couple minutes before are you

00:02:33.000 coming in to do our Wednesday live update for all of you and so I felt like

00:02:41.180 I needed to at least reach out and say, hey, we'll get to that update when we can get to it.

00:02:47.220 Of course, I knew the fire wasn't foul play, so that didn't cross my mind to put, hey, this was

00:02:55.760 an accident, not foul play. It never crossed my mind. So in Derek's defense, Mr. Fringe,

00:03:04.560 he saw i mean i have to be honest if i was an outsider looking in and i saw that and i knew

00:03:12.980 those people were the alberta people and i would probably think think the same thing

00:03:18.940 um but there was no foul play and and we just had an episode a couple weeks back where we had a

00:03:27.380 drunk stolen vehicle drive through our carport and broke one of our posts and the thank god the

00:03:35.040 trucks the beast was there to support the flags were on the truck and it was the flags that stopped

00:03:40.300 the roof from hitting our truck but where did our minds go first thought oh somebody didn't like our

00:03:47.160 flags but it had nothing to do with that he was a drunk with a vehicle and it was just a stolen

00:03:54.400 vehicle forgot that he should turn and so i i completely understand where derek was coming from

00:04:01.440 with his video and i love you for standing behind us but there was no foul play this was

00:04:10.000 a freak freaking accident i have my husband and i'm gonna be quiet before i cry

00:04:16.960 it looked like alfred e newman those of you that are my age know exactly who that is

00:04:20.800 yeah he actually woke up this morning and this one was pretty puffy almost shot um it's gone

00:04:30.040 down a fair bit it's still pretty puffy but the elbows are the worst and mr jokey pants here i

00:04:36.980 kept my elbows down yeah if i would have put my elbows up it wouldn't have burned my elbows i

00:04:41.840 might have got it under here and we don't want to be elbows up elbows down baby elbows down

00:04:46.620 burned or not so and in all fairness I mean if you look at some of the comments that were on the

00:04:51.000 post like the one that Igor made uh there's there's so many evil people out there that

00:04:56.420 were cheering on the fact that this happened and it's so easy to read those comments and then go

00:05:00.620 oh I bet it was that guy but honestly no not this time at any rate it wasn't uh any foul play it was

00:05:06.060 just a freak accident that happened and in this trade it happens often and usually like you almost

00:05:13.360 always get it under control really quick you get practiced at it but this one you've never had

00:05:17.500 anything this one in particular had three or four different fronts and i battled battled them as best

00:05:23.740 i could and then the last one it just took over so just to let you know we're all safe sound and

00:05:28.920 it wasn't anything there was nobody here trying to take anything from us it was it was just an

00:05:33.380 accident um i think we'll cut this here and we'll talk to you again in the next video see you soon

John Bolton - May 01, 2026

A Statement from Mr. & Mrs. Al Bertan on the garage fire

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