Holiday Farm Fire Damage, Oregon
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2024
- Holiday Farm Fire is a huge wildfire on the McKenzie River in Oregon. I wanted to show a bit of the damage without getting in the way of recovery. This has been a very sad wildfire season for our forests and many homes.
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Over a year later and I still close my eyes and relive that day. It's forever changed my life
It was a big deal. Then the same thing happened the next year elsewhere. Wow. We need some forest management for sure.
Nice work covering this tastefully without sensationalism. Having recently passed through the area, I think I was most astonished by how it just went on and on and on for so many miles, and it was surreal seeing the occasional house standing as if nothing had happened, while all their neighbors were simply erased.
Thanks man. I thought the chimneys left over at every lot was pretty sad to see. Makes me want to make a house out of brick.
Looters took everything we had left.
My husband and I drove through there this afternoon,it was sad to see Blue River so decimated:Finn Rock Store was gone:the burn went on for miles ,skipping around different sites,burning this area but not another. The river was beautiful in the sunlight despite the charred areas all around it but strange to be able to see so much of it. Thank You,enjoyed the video♥️
Thanks Cheryl. Sad times for those that lost homes. Pretty crazy we got this up and down I-5 all over the state.
I just recently found your channel. Nicely done video on this. I was one of the many fire fighters battling that fire. It was very emotional for me the first time I drove through after the are was reopened. Seeing the devastation after the fact was very humbling. I have spent a lot of time in the McKenzie valley growing up and to see it forever changed from my past memories was difficult.
Nice job stopping the fire. Thank you. I hope you get to enjoy some more of these videos. The fire actually started at my wedding site! Not the same year but that was a weird coincidence. Seeing those chimeneas sitting alone sure was spooky.
Hard to stomach, but thanks for showing the truth. This gets my emotions flowing again. Oregon forests will be fine and they will recover fully, we just won't see it in our lifetimes like it was before. That's small consolation for those that lost everything, but good to keep in our hearts as we begin to heal. A human life is a blink of an eye to the mountains and forests. Thanks, brother.
Thank you. Life will move on but have to feel for those that lost their homes. Fire is a healthy and natural thing. I don't think these fires were completely natural. Things like global warming, power lines, lack of natural fire.
This absolutely breaks my heart i grew up in Blue River went to Mckenzie elementary and middle school was on the cheer team my oldest son spent his first 3 months of his life in my beloved litte home town I used to play at the city park and swim in blue river I am just sickened by this I pray for all involved and for a triumph rebuild it was an amazing little town to have grown up in
Pretty sad. Same story for much of Oregon last year and probably this year too. With so many issues, hoops and loops recovery is taking awhile.
I live very close to the site of the initial fires, and I really think I have a mild case of PTSD because your images have left me a trembling wreck. The night of September 7th is seared into my memory, without a doubt one the worst nights of my life. Watching your video has brought the memories to the forefront of my mind, and as odd as it sounds to hear, thank you for leaving this up. Some of the lessons we as a community learned should remain fresh in our collective minds, we paid a very high price in the learning.
While some re-building has happened, according to the local paper roughly 85% of residents have yet to make significant steps to rebuilding! It's going to take decades to rebuild, and for some it will not happen all.nrr
Sorry to hear that. The start of the fire was actually my wedding site! Somehow most of that wedding area didn't burn all that much. Maybe since it moved west quickly. I am not sure how much the government has adjusted. I haven't heard of any big preventative policy change. Hopefully they do something.
@Matt.Cook.Oregon The Government doesn't seem to be especially helpful I agree. Likewise, the policies to prevent another disaster don't seem to be under discussion, let alone examined.
Thank you for this video. All those affected are in my thoughts and prayers🙏🏾
Thanks Jonathan! The humans and animals appreciate the love I am sure.
Sobering and sad to see the destruction. Your video was thoughtful, in good taste considering what happened. Audio was excellent!
Thank you, what a tragedy. I had planned to film a lot more, but when I got there the mood changed. Less footage and a quick edit is refreshing to me as sometimes I spend way too much time editing!
Disheartening to see so much damage to the property and wildlife! California has experienced a lot of fire damage this summer too.
It is not great. We caused it one way or another. Hope everyone finds a home.
I miss Oregon
Nice. Big Oregon fan here. Maybe when you come back it will have healed.
Very sobering to see, but tastefully done and the music as spot on......well done!
Thank you very much! A sad thing to record but it is important to document these things.
Devastating. ☹️😞
Not great! Could be worse. could be better.
So very sad...
Yep, true. Hope everyone and everything recovers.
Great video! so sad to see, I love that area
Thanks! A tragedy for sure. 173k acres is a lot.
hope everything will be better soon , I enjoy watching ur videos👍
Happy to see u friend and stay safe
It will be a long time of recovery. Thanks a bunch!
Worst fire season in quite a while I think. Growing up in Bend, forest fires in the summer was somewhat the norm. But this year ... Man. This year.
Yep pretty crazy. Usually our fires are further away and in the woods. We don't feel those as much as these ones that hit homes.
Hey Matt,
I really appreciate your sensitivity of how you didn't film people who were recovering what was left. My family lost two homes and a business in Blue River. At one point my Sister and I were going through the rubble of her home and someone had the audacity to snap a picture of us. Your footage was informative and helpful and I didn't find it invasive.
Im a filmmaker myself and am currently working on a doc. about fire victims emotional healing from all over the west coast.
Please let me know if I can use any footage from this video (you caught images of my families property), to be spliced into the doc, as I was too emotional to film the fire damage (even though I had just been gifted a camera). Of course you would be given credit if it made it into the final film.
Nice work.
Thank you. I didn't know what I was getting to on this. I thought it was so sad and interesting that the place I drive through every week was so different. Once I got there I realized I probably shouldn't be recording too much. I think it should be fine if you use some imagery with credit. Let me know where I can see the documentary when it completes. I also do commercial drone/camera work if anything specific is needed. oregonsbigfoot@gmail.com
@@MattCookOregon Thank you, I would definitely give you credit. Im in the early stages of pre production and I will certainly consider you for additional camera work :)
Thanks for sharing informative video
No prob. This one was a little sad.
That's a shame. It seems like the entire state is burned up now. ☹️
Yep pretty sad to see. A good chunk of Oregon burned this summer.
So sad it was damaged :(
Hey dude. Sad Oregon lost like a million acres of forest this summer. You got some good quality vlogs, got anything upcoming planned?
I’m glad it’s contained! That is a large area! I hope everyone is safe!
Yep big fire and we had a bunch of similar ones around the state. Sad but most made it out alive.
Good job Matt want to cover my neck of the woods soon lions head up the Santiam canyon of course 👊🏻
Thanks man. Wait are you asking me to record that area or are you going to do it? Either way as long as someone does it!
@@MattCookOregon I am going to do it soon I am thinking on heading up on the 30th I would do it this weekend but I have a fall backpacking trip planned 👊🏻
1:13-1:16 That is what's left of my life. Burned down house, burned down RV, burned down car.
So sorry to hear that. Are you getting the support you need?
I had to live through this 😥😥😥😥😥
So sorry! Is your home being rebuilt yet?
@@MattCookOregon idk
Thanks for the video Matt, pure sadness all around. There it's always a hope to everyone to never give up, even on hardest times, we need to stay together and do something... Today for others, but we don't know if tomorrow will be for us.
Thanks Antonio. The thought of hope is a good thing to have still going this year.
So sad 😢
I know they almost burned all my jungle jay action figures. Just kidding yes very sad hope everyone recovers.
It started on September 8th 2020. I know I was there.
Sorry to hear that Mary. Hope everything is ok.
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Thanks! Hope you enjoy.
nice vid happy halloween soon
First comment! Thanks man.
Wildlife and nature will come back, some will prosper (like Black-backed Woodpecker and American Three-toed Woodpecker and many more) but the situation for all the people that was living there is just awful!
Thanks for checking this out. This was a big disaster along with all the other similar Oregon fires. 2020 was a difficult year in many ways.
I have been up here a lot .. there are places you never knew were there until now a ruin and the expensive houses a crossed the river .....Gone some are some are not .But it is Devastating
And My friend in England was getting parts sent to her from the Mustang Guy in Blue River ( she has a Mustang two or a pony ) She got ahold of me of the night almost day there..And I was updating my FB Page on FIre com Talk .She said Becky Please tell it is not so ? I said what isn't so ? That Blue river was gone ..I was listening to Fire com and other stations and I said yes it's gone ..And She was Bawling her eyes out she said did they get out in time I said yes he got out .. But the shop and the mustangs are gone .Sad day for her too . At Mark 4:03 on the video
Thank you Becky. Isn't it a big bummer? The little things and the big things. Even animals lost thier homes. Go firefighters!
Crazy to think some of these fires are started by careless humans... I wonder if some of those charred trees will still survive?
Yep, careless and some malicious humans start them even. This one specifically was started by a windstorm and powerlines.
It started at the Holiday Farm RV park up by Rainbow. It started on September 8th. I lost a lot do to the fire!!