Thanks for this!

You are a amacing and Kind person ❤ Thank you from Swizerland, can't understand the US System and the laziness of this FD. That's a shame. All the Best for a fast reunion 🙏

@maryjarrell5824 Thanks for taking action ❤

Thank you for doing this

Wonderful, good on you

Yes and that is sooooo traumatic for the child. To be removed from the only family she knows and then returned is so confusing for her and unsettling. I pray that she is able to be adopted by Peter and never have to go through anything like that ever again ❤

@daniellemonroe1242 Peter adopted her brother and sister, so I don't understand why not her

You are an amazing father and I'm sure Bella will be back with you all real soon ❤❤😢

@@SuperGigi06 maybe the parents rights aren't terminated for her yet because of her age.

This is NOT FAIR AT ALL. 😡 This breaks my heart for ALL of you. It's not fair to make her go back and forth, and she's with her other siblings. The system is so freaking broken. They let parents that abuse and neglect their children have more rights than loving and caring foster parents. I wish we could do something to help. BOO ON THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 😡MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS FOR YOU AND YOUR KIDS. I'M SO SORRY THAT YOUNS HAVE TO UNNECESSARILY GO THROUGH THIS. ((HUGS))

They need to be held accountable and never are.

That's just bloody disgusting. That poor child and man. Her poor siblings that also has to say goodbye. For now. I hope it didn't happen 😢.

This is really sad 😞

Sadly they send these kids back to horrible situations all the time. I cared for a young baby whose mother was a meth addict. She would not feed him regularly, supervise or care for the infant. She had numerous CPS complaints after he was bitten by rats as a newborn. They sent him back to her at 18 months without any proof of change on her part. The cops or child protective services could care less sadly. The cops even sent him back without a car seat. It’s unbelievably frustrating and heartbreaking.

If only they cared! They don’t care. You would think the Social Worker has some form of pull to ensure the child doesn’t have to be uprooted. Especially, over another government agency. This is totally unnecessary trauma on the little one and her older siblings. 😔

So sad.

I can't believe they didn't expedite this.

@@lisam2496 - Perhaps after this video goes viral, they will do their job.

Thats what they are SUPPOSED to do! That whole community should learn to toyi-toyi like we do in South Afrika... AND let them meet the community in their terrain! This wickedness inflicted upon children MUST STOP! This DAD is a better dad than some pastors are to their children! 🙏

The fire department didn't come but the social care made sure they did! They could have called and delayed it!

Came here for this comment. Disgusting FD.

Amen Amen Amen

Yes, In Jesus Name! 🙏🏽

She’s seriously about to cry!!!😭

That girl went through all stages of grief in 5 minutes. 😔

Amen. Praying she comes back very soon

Sad. May the good Lord always be with her.❤

I remember being four vividly

This makes me so sad

I thought she was 2

Shame on the FIRE DEPARTMENT!!! THEY'RE GONNA TRAUMATIVE THAT BABY!!!!!😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

I agree 💯 % with you, I got very upset too. It hurt me just thinking of her not knowing what is going on and where is daddy 🙏🏼

Whatbis wrong with the Fire Dept!! Did you explain how important this is ???

@@sharon314My heart is breaking. This stupidity is why I could never foster. Not even a puppy. I love children so much I can’t imagine what you and the children are feeling. It’s not fair to the baby girl who’s growing up so sweetly. God bless you all. ❤❤❤❤

I'm 56F and did secretarial/admin work most of my life. NOBODY does it right, any more! It's like in one generation everybody COMPLETELY FORGOT how to manage the most simple administration. It's annoying enough but with implications like this it is downright sickening. It's everywhere, too, private companies, public services. All of them Stoopid and willing to spend more time and money to NOT get something done than just do the simple management.

They should have to pay a big juicy fine, which does not take any child's trauma, but just like they can and do fine people, big time, they too should not be immune to such treatment. Then they would make it more of a priority. All the sudden it would be important to get the stupid inspection done ON TIME.

I cannot believe they wouldn't just grant a temporary extension or exemption to this family, for their own tardiness. Not the family's fault. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

@overit6969 You are absolutely on spot.. Plus it is on cost of the soul of this young child. Not to mention her brother and sister.. All prof. psychologists know: this is the damage you want to avoid in first place - . The three siblings - in my opinion from another country - on this matter is: There is no other evidence for the well being of this child Bella: She has to stay in the family - in her care home - together with her siblings! Other decision is irresponsable. Anything else as far as I can see, causes unnesseccary drama! Peter should stop this by urgent court desicion. It is obvious: seperation will damage Bella. Hope Peter does not accept this. He has a good chance getting Bella back home! Because the desicion was not made in favour of the child. It was made in the interesst of burocracy. BUT the childs interesst comes first !!! Also in my country Germany. There is no evidence why Bella should go through this. What looks wrong, short sided missguided order - is exactly so. This child in her best interesst has to stay where she is now! Please consider a lawyer Peter and stop the damage to Bellas soul! I am sure, this can be overthrown by evidence from your local court. Foster care should be about avoiding damage/drama! Here is the way. Please consider a lawyer Peter! Bella has to stay where she feels home and safe! Adress mistake - to late - not relevant anymore -. Argument : Avoid trauma for Bella in her best interesst. A missing paper - does not justify taking a small child away from her siblings and care father family! The desicion based on burocracy reasons should be overthrown and stopped - immediately! All best wishes ❤

@andreaelisabethlotz1209 It will be stopped once the lazy fire department comes out and does the inspection he needs to have his foster care license renewed! He's been trying to get them out to do the inspection for 4 weeks now. They know what it is for!! Then they set up a date to come out and they did not show up or call! He called them asking if they are coming to do the inspection. That's when he was told by them that his address in not in their district!! This is unacceptable behavior from the fire department!! Their lack of caring is disgusting and has caused trauma to these children and disrupted that whole house hold do NO GOOD reason!! If this was one of their loved ones, you can guarantee it would have been done in the first week of asking!!! 😡

THEY should be fined for that!!!

Not FD fault…inspection request was sent to city FD and the house is not in the city. County FD is responding quickly to the new (correct) request.

@@Maggies87The fire dept. should have known that from the start and proactively redirected him To the county.

agreed!

YES THIS! And your congress representatives

Hang in there daddy, hopefully your baby will be back.

Call your representatives.

YES, and look how many people know about this --- over 20,000!!!! SHAME ON THEM! THAT ALONE should make them correct this ASAP WITHOUT the child being traumatized!!!

Well he didn’t really have a choice thanks to the fire department. If he refused to let her go then he could go to prison and be stopped from ever fostering her again.

I wonder did he try calling proper officials to see if they could assist him in getting it done faster.

He said he was calling and calling and calling. I'm sure he did everything he could to keep her with him.

@@lisam2496 I think you misread. It’s inexcusable The Fire Department didn’t do the inspection though they had a reasonable time frame. Peter did do everything he could!

@@kathleenobrien8502She did not misread anything, she replied to @lindywheeler4192 question about calling 😉

Fire department is racist

Well said, I felt exactly the same. This is outragous!!!

The foster system is beyond messed up, and never changes, it just gets worth with time and government related agencies involved in it.

That's the system... It's insane. We had grandkids, and "dealt" with two different counties - Or, more accurately - they'd call US when they needed something, and ignored us anytime we had questions, or needed permission to travel, get special permission for after are since (was my husbands granddaughter) had a heart condition (so we didn't for 2.5 years, and she couldn't go to after school care for 2 hours, so we had to cut out work days short and ultimately our storefront closed...) The system is so broken, and they don't support the foster parents or families who take the kids in. I love that Peter is real about it, but honestly it's a nightmare with all the red tape - they don't care about the kids, or their mental health at the end of the day - it's about the paperwork.

The system is beyond broken!!!

Yep. Enough that I want to make some phone calls but won't for Peters sake. I don't think I would stay level headed on the phone

this is so sad though too it has to make them feel insecure...

Peter you are amazing. I am in a situation that is different but similar in it being out of my hands. 😢❤

They don't care. Its an agency like the government, they want your money now, but when its time for them to earn that money they suddenly don't have the time.

Nice ⭐ job

I wonder if whoever the slacker paperpusher is would like their 2 year old taken away for some minor bureacratic reason?

There are a lot people out there who feel no shame for anything.

Welcome

Can't you help him

@grannylpz I don't live in the same state. In my area if this happened, I would 100% help!

​@@lsansing1783 God bless you

Same my father in law is actually firefighter and a cop and emt .!!! I will definitely find out if there's a way to speed this up !

So YOU are the boss!

Not surprised, when it comes to agencies like that its very common, and no they aren't busy, and no it don't take long to do the paperwork LOL.

It's infuriating that they would sit on paperwork causing dismay in a child's already hard life. We got to do better ppl💯💯

Government messes everything up. There should be some sort of extension approval, especially when the falt with the government. What an absolutely unnecessary stressful situation, all because the government can't find it's way out of a wet paperbag. What a blessed family ya'll are. ❤🙏❤ Come home soon Bella to your sweet loving family. 🥰

Just imagine it’s literally “sitting on someone’s desk.” They can do something but they won’t, they “can’t” - if it was someone with connections that inquired, this wouldn’t happen. That’s what’s messed up, we aren’t all equal.

This would NEVER happen in NZ!

Agree 😢 so damaging for poor wee Emma (Bella).

This is an absolute disgrace to that fire department!! Some of those people in the fire department must be parents , don't they see the damage to this child ...to this family? And I agree with the other comment can an allowance an extension be made you're clearly a good and caring man

Update? So unnecessary trauma and sadness for everybody😢

That’s exactly what I’ve been thinking! This is traumatic for her. Horrible.

Yah I'm.not understanding why the Caseworker didn't "turn her cheek" to this and let him handle what he had too,he's obviously a great Father and the Fire department could have handled it better.I hope she's okay

I know! What’s up with that? I wish they had called the mayor for an emergency call so the paperwork could be delayed. So I hope they don’t send her to a home that will mistreat her. I really don’t know why every CPS across the country is not getting an updated system. It makes no sense to me that they are going to take her from a loving home to one that may hurt her. Do something government!

The fire department didn’t even let him know that they weren’t coming to the appointment. How Very Unprofessional

Absolutely disgusting of them

They don't have time. They've got to cook their steaks and workout.

I agree

Both the child service and the fire department. Mindless people...

They are lazy. My brother-in-law works for the fire department and they have gotten too used to just hanging out all day, cooking meals and working out. The Boston Globe did a piece on this several years ago, stating that due to advances in fire suppression, fires have dropped by over 90% over the last several decades and that there really isn't a need for a paid fire dept. So instead, they have moved in on the EMS depts territory and are taking over their jobs and responding to car accidents, injuries, etc.

​@@EarthStudent7thanks for the info. I wondered why a big firetruck came to the scene of a two car accident.

@@terirobinson3616 Exactly. And the kicker too is the fact that the get to retire as long as they've given 25 years. Many retire at age 50 and then get a nice pension to live out the next several decades on the tax payers dime. But, we can't question any of that because they are part of the "hero" club and deserve our worship. I joke about this with my brother-in-law all the time and he readily admits that if people really knew the truth of how much waste goes on with spending for fire depts., there would be no more paid fire depts. At a minimum, we wouldn't be supporting their inflated pensions.

I don’t believe she’s eligible for adoption just yet.

Also adoption is expensive

So sorry for you and the kids!💔❤

Yes! In my area they'd be all over this. They'd be outraged at this and have the team the send for the Hall of Shame out there immediately

Yeah. It's pulpable. I hope she'll be okay. I know they see a therapist. I hope they can help her sort these feelings. It might be some PTSD from her past, too. I'm so sorry to see this.

I can't hold my tears to see her go 😢

This is soo sad, can’t stop crying for Bella. Imagine going into a house she don’t know anyone there and having to sleep without her siblings and dad.😢😢😢 this is so sad. Let’s pray that Bella is back with Peter soon and he gets to adopt her permanently. He is all she knows, he had her from a baby

That's her sister, I can only imagine their bond, and now Isabelle will be the only girl at home without her sister, only because of a minor mishap their whole life is turned upside down 😢 When will the system realize they are inflicting trauma as well?

Yes it’s the same here in Minnesota the licensing worker does it all thank God.

Yep. I did.