'Just return them': 5 more plaques stolen from Edmonton Firefighters Memorial

Plaques at a monument helping memorialize Edmonton's fallen firefighters were stolen for the second time this year.

Plaques at a monument helping memorialize Edmonton's fallen firefighters were stolen for the second time this year.

Five more bronze plaques have been stolen from the memorial located in Old Strathcona. The monument, located at 10322 83 Ave. at Firefighters Memorial Plaza had four different plaques stolen and the memorial bell vandalized.

Noel Bugnet, a firefighter and chairman of the Edmonton Firefighters Memorial Society, told CTV News Edmonton that police reached out to him on Thursday saying they received a report of missing plaques.

"I was hoping that it was just somebody who had just not realized the belltower plaques were taken," Bugnet said. "Unfortunately, I was wrong.

"It's extremely frustrating."

For Bugnet, the most disappointing part of the theft is that it doesn't affect one person but an entire community.

"It affects several generations of families," he said. "There's a lot of people affected by this, and the money you're making off these plaques is not worth the damage you're creating.