I was a victim of this fire. This Sheriff was amazing in his organization and diligence. He was also the man who led the evacuation of the Orville dam incident. He should be an example to all Law Enforcement agencies on how to handle disasters.
You’re so proud! Did you or someone you know participate in the ‘true’ and very well hidden, secret activities in Paradise? Paradise, California was a racist sundown town. Many Black Americans were killed there by murderous Caucasian monsters. When Paradise burned to the ground, I thanked God. Paradise, California was an evil place. I pray you never rebuild. 🤲🏾🙇🏽♀️✊🏾🇺🇸🔥🔥🔥
It took me over 3 hours to get less than 2 miles at the end of town. Traffic was blocking the police and fire trucks, and people had to get others to pull to the side of the road to let them through. At the end of town there was a power pole down in the two lane road and we were driving around it through the flames. God bless the firefighters, and law enforcement, and everyone that lost their lives.
I was there gridlocked in the bumper to bumper traffic on Clark Road, (I slipped up and had typed Clark Ave). The air was black, with sparks dancing, butane and propane tanks exploding sounding eerily like artillery, the fire was overwhelming the ability of the emergency responders to react, hundreds if not thousands of people came within minutes of being incinerated in place. If the professionalism of the responders had cracked, that is what would have happened. I thank them for my life. All was not perfect but they held up under some of the most intense pressure I have ever witnessed. The CampFire exceeded all I have ever experienced, two tours in Vietnam, two near drownings, caught in the open by an F4 tornado, typhoons, stranded in a blizzard, mugged, beaten, lightning strike, vehicle and industrial accidents, all pale compared. From setting out the trash bin at 6:55 am until being gridlocked at 8:30 am, the entire town incinerated by 9:30 am. Please pray for those who did not survive. Thank you all.
@Tan Le A wheeled garbage can, except now it is a plastic bin with wheels and a lid and a self contained handle, that you take to the street end of the driveway on garbage pick up day.
@Tan Le Yes. Basically an oversized plastic garbage can on two wheels that you tilt and move like you would a mover' s dolly, hand truck.. about a 250' , 80 meter, driveway
We are so very greatful to all the first responders. They saved my sister from the Feather River Hospital, Adventists Health Center The part she was in burned.
We got burned out completely but it was almost worse for our few friends that didn't loose everything. For weeks like the rest of us they didn't even know if they had a house or not and a month after returned to a devalued home without services in a neighborhood devoid of life. Most of us had moved on to other places shortly after but living in a ghost town and loosing all your friends to the fire or forced out by the destruction was hard for the few that had somewhere to return to. Pretty crappy situation for all of us.
After evacuating and relocating from the Carr fire I remember that morning. The wind was crazy and I told my wife that if a fire starts today it will be devastating. I will never forget that moment. Within an hour the news started coming that paradise was on fire. I am so sorry for your loss.
My cousin's sister lives in Paradise. Her house burned down. But, a week ago, she had a house warming party and a whole bunch of family came. It was really nice!
A few years earlier, emergency services had rehearsed an evacuation of the town. They realized even then that the roads would become hopelessly gridlocked. They devised an elaborate evacuation scheme, whereby the town would be evacuated section by section. But this fire spread so fast that the evacuation plan became irrelevant.
The problem with evacuation routes which rely on narrow roads is that it only takes one idiot to gridlock the entire plan. There are actually people so dumb, or who can get so rattled, that they don't realize that stopping to argue with your buddy about whether to proceed or stop automatically makes the decision for everyone behind you.
I always wondered how they managed to get gridlocked wasn’t everybody going one way? Why wasn’t everybody flooring it? Watching documentaries of the entire town evacuating reminded me of traffic on a freeway which usually happens when someone in front or people in front are nosy slowing down looking at cops pulling over someone etc and I never understood it like what can be exciting about a fire coming towards you why was there even a gridlock happening on one road going one way?
My home was on there. What was my home rather. My family lived there in that same place for over 50 years. We lost everything as you can see here, they actually showed my burned home here.
@@mefford67 With the help from my wonderful dog Bear who pulled me through the flames without even hesitating I got out. The town labeled my Bear a "dangerous animal",,, they could not have been more wrong, he is my hero. My son lost his guitar building business but has recovered and has been building again.
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That guy driving the bulldozer had more guts than a government mule! I worked in public safety for 32-years and have been in that situation myself. What keeps you going when every survival instinct says to turn back is this.... the easier choice was to keep going. If you turn back, you still have to look in the mirror.
Yup, you're not wrong. Experience is usually needed for people to understand that... you have to live with your actions, and lack of actions just the same.
I am so sorry about what has happened to this town, it’s so heartbreaking! Everybody who lived in Paradise is here in my heart even if I don’t know them, they’re here in my heart! It’s all so shocking to me that something like this happened! But, we all need to have hope that things will get better and all will not be lost!
Despite appearances, many of the trees did burn, primarily soft woods (like Pines, Cedars, Maples, etc.). Black Oaks and Valley Oaks on the other hand take much more flame and heat to catch and tended to survive when further away from the structures. If you visit the town now, many areas that were fairly dense have been cleared and resemble that of a logging operation. I know this because I lost my home in this fire and visit Paradise multiple times per week.
Llived in Paradise for a decade (moved to Chico prior to the fire). The lack of trees alone make it look like another world. Sorry for your loss! Where are you now?
@@KPB0853 Eucalyptus was planted in California in the 1850s by the thousands. Blue gum Eucalyptus is the one that thrived the best, it's known as Gasoline tree because it's so explosive. The Oakland fires were over 50 percent blue gum. There's probably around 2 million acres of it all over the bay area of California. It thrives on fire, it creates an environmental for fire and it needs fire for its survival.
I clearly remembered this, especially since we live here in Northern California. although our city was a couple hours away, the smoke from this fire travelled more than 400 miles. this and now the same tragedy out in Maui, Hawaii. prayers to all who perished.
These men are the true description of courage and heroism. They did it not for the attention or the accolades. They did it because it was the compassionate thing to do.
It makes m so angry that PG & E just keep letting this happen over and over. Those Executives need to be in prison and that piece of crap company taken down.
You can also thank CA leftist insane liberal fire preventative policies that have turned forests into raging infernos. Notice how the only place in the world this happens is......in Californian. Tree cutting has been banned, cattle, goats and sheep are not allowed to graze to clear ground cover, etc etc etc.
@@tmunson5568 Yes... let's get political when it's clear that PG&E had failed to maintain/replace failing electrical infrastructure. The issue then exacerbated by drought, and wind. It doesn't matter how much clean up anyone does in many cases, a single ember can be carried by wind and if it hits something that can ignite, it's gonna ignite... Know what that does? Create more embers to again be carried by wind, starting more fires. 40mph winds aren't going to blow out a fire, they're going to spread it FAST. What you can REALLY thank, is urban spread. People love to live in the wilderness, in areas that 30 years ago were uninhabited or minimally inhabited, save for vacation cabins. The metal frames you see on all those home sites, mean these homes were modular/mobile homes, that are all essentially tinderboxes READY to go up. Much of the terrain out there, it isn't even feasible to have livestock graze to clear ground cover, if any of it would even be edible. What used to be used, was controlled burns, but with several years of major drought, even when it's NOT fire season, those are out of the question. But yea, let's totally blame politics. How about Gatlinburg Tennessee? Tennessee is a Republican stronghold, yet look at what happened there. Sure that took a few days, and was a total failure to react for of all things a holiday weekend; But they're also documented saying that a major fire without weather assistance to put out would easily wipe out 200k acres.
My name is Connie I am 70years ago. I bought my for ever home in paradise and loved it on November 8th I lost every thing I ever had I have no pictures of my family or my son as he was growing up of my life as a mother and wife .I couldn't even proof that I ever was alive .I don't know how to get thru I feel lost I still have my son I am blessed and will try to go on But I'm not sure how to do this. Who am I???
I was there up in magalia up by mastorson, my brother was getging his tonsils removed, he is 10 now, i'm 22, we smelt smoke then saw the sky was RED ASF, went home to get my dog and cat, when we got out the house with our animals, we saw the fire all by Hills Country store and by colter next t our house, we left up to gridly and stayed at the shelter for 2 - 3 weeks and we got Noro-virus, luckily no one in my family died, but now its 2024, my family lives in magalia besides my, I live in chico now, heard they are building alot of new stuff, but RIP to everyone who died, may you rest up in heaven and any family who lived, I wish you the best of life.
Corey Honea is someone who hasn't failed to impress me, both through the Oroville Dam mess and the Camp Fire. I don't think he was getting much rest in the aftermath of the fire, but he remained professional (though not always suffering fools), throughout. Joe Kennedy was definitely a hero, as were others. Thank you first responders for all you did, at your own peril, despite what each of you lost, and were losing while you were saving lives. You had the right priorities!
Sorry for the loss of your town. I only knew it for five months, having moved there in June of 2018, from Seattle. In my short time in Paradise I quickly came to love the town and the community. An amazing place to live. I really enjoyed my short time there. I was living on Foland Rd and the morning of the fire I was listening to the radio and watching my phone for an evacuation order. There was none. When I started hearing propane tanks exploding in the distance, around 8:45am, I stopped waiting for an official order and jumped in my truck and headed for Chico. I didn't get far. Trying to turn right off Foland onto Pearson I had to wait for several minutes for someone to let me in. Traffic was gridlocked. Over the next 45 minutes the sky got darker, with an orange glow to the NE getting brighter and brighter. During that time we moved about 3/4 of a mile. I thought for sure we were going to have to abandon vehicles and run for it. It seemed inevitable that the fire was going to over run us. The amazing thing, incredible really, was that while all the civilian traffic was headed West on Pearson, trying to get to Clark, emergency vehicles were headed in the other direction, directly into the oncoming fire. I will never forget he courage shown by those firefighters. I've never seen anything like it before, or since. Just when I thought that we in real trouble, the police turned Pearson into a one way road. With two lanes now headed West, instead of just one, traffic really got moving and in a few minutes we were turning left at the Ace Hardware Store, onto Clark, and we were free, able to drive down to Chico, albeit by a very circuitous route. Further down Clark, by the airport, the fire had jumped the road. That was the closest I got to actual flames. From what I have learned in the the last 3 years about the speed and timeline of the fire, if I had left my house 30 mins later I would not have had such a clean getaway. Even though I lost everything that I owned in the fire that day, knowing what I know now, I consider myself to be very lucky.
Lost my home in this fire, fire authorities have officially determined that Pacific Gas and Electric Co. was responsible for last year’s deadly Camp Fire in Paradise, California.
I was there in the gridlock on Skyway for several hours, nothing moving, dark as midnight at 12 noon, wondering for the first time since my tour in Vietnam, if this was where I was going to die, holding my 2 dogs and wishing I could say goodbye to my family and friends... as luck would have it, the traffic finally began to move and after driving thru the flames to get down Skyway and on into Chico...
We lost our retirment home and everything we'd collected from around the world. Didn't matter since they were just things. We had our lives when others didn't. We bought another home in the Sierra foothills and now we have trouble with fire insurance. Our broker told us a few days after we closed that we are living in the next "Paradise". Hmm... I love it here and love our home so the only way I'll move again is if we are burned out again! I sure hope not!!!
Thank goodness for the fire fighters and for all who are courageous and helpful in times of horrific disasters. so sorry for all , including the wildlife .
Strangest fire....something just not right about this fire. Just look at the ruins and you can see that something is weird and NO CONSPIRACY....just common sense l used when I saw incinerated homes and vehicles.
I lived this and went through it with my teacher she took me and 4 other students through the fire it was one of the craziest days of my life I was stuck at the chico fairgrounds with out my family for about 5 hours lost my home and my childhood home :( I’m glad to be up here and rebuilding though ! #buttestrong
I live in Portugal and the year of 2017 wil be forever printed in our memories for the worst reasons. In two separate occasions 17 June and 15 october we lost 112 people due to the wilde fires. Never in our history we have so many casualties. Small villages were littered destroyed. The fires spreading 4 km in 10 min, just insane. The lack of cooperation and coordination and the failure in the emergency communications lead to this catastrophic result. The origin of the fire in June was the power line cable. The wind blows at 100 km/h and the temperatures wel above 38° Celsius. So the ingredients were there and the result was 66 people dead 50 factorys and 500 homes were lost. In 15 October 2017 we have 500 wild fires in one day, never in Portugal we saw such tragedy. The fire was cause for arseners and the weather was just perfect to cause a fire storm multiply in many cities in all Portugal. 46 people lost their lives and hundreds of buildings and factorys were destroyed
@The Real Miss Mia every single year its the same. In this summer 2022 a natural reserve burn almost completely, and the causes of the fires is 90% arseners
@The Real Miss Mia here in Portugal our law protect the criminals, even if you face a court of law the sentence will be always in freedom. That's is wrong because the destruction caused by the fires its tremendous
Can't and won't. Won't because the people responsible will never be held responsible other then having to throw money at the survivors of their catastrophic mistake. Can't because California will always be an inferno, and that is coming from me, a person who has lived in California my entire life.
I worked a lot at Butte County Community College. Sometimes I had to spend the weekend there. I went into Paradise, CA just to sight-see. I found a huge Pine Cone and brought it back from the canyons because of the novelty of the size of the cone. I can't imagine the devastation that took place there!
My dad has a friend whose house and all his personal belongings were lost in this fire. I pray extra hard he and nobody else from that town has committed or even contemplated suicide.
Same here and I don’t even know him but things can always be replaced your life can’t be replaced your only given one life and with the love of his family friends strangers and others who went through this I know that God will see him through this horrible situation as well 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I can't speak for everybody but for most of us who lived there before and during the fire have little interest in how well the place is growing. I never felt too comfortable returning for long. It never felt the same. Just about everybody we knew moved away anyways.
My aunt lives in oroville, ca, her friends were in paradise, I remember as child paradise being beautiful town, country, friendly people, farm land, I was worried sick, I live in socal, so I couldnt even get flight out to Sacramento due to flight cancellation due to smoke. Thank god my auntie is safe. Her friends are missing. Paradise strong they are ❤️❤️❤️
Gary McGrath Are you kidding me right now? There was literally one orchard off pentz rd and the rest of residential areas covered in trees. I know where I grew up and Durham and Redding is actual farmland compared to paradise. You don’t swim in rivers and climb up trees in farmland lmfao!!
Gary McGrath Apple and orchards? Where did yo go to? Must of went to Biggs and thought it was paradise. When you live on a ridge line of a mountain it isn’t farmland!!
@@itsrocketscience7693 I guess you don't comprehend what you read very well? Paradise was apple and olive orchards many years ago, and that is probably what Rebecca is reminiscing about. I know where I am at.
People don’t understand that when the brain loses oxygen, lights out, you’re dead. Those people who they picked up were very lucky. It’s not fire that kills you, it’s the smoke.
I don't know why people blame wildfires on global warming, I don't think it is I think personally that it's a lack of forestry that's leading to the wildfires in California and all over the West Coast.
It hurts watching your home town burn down to the ground knowing so many people died. My grandparents almost died in this fire, my school burnt, 86 (I think) people died. Paradise is not the same one day we will rise..I made it out okay but knowing others didn’t hurts. God bless my home town and god bless the families who has lost someone or there homes everyone was so brave. We had to drop and leave almost everything and I have type 1 diabetes and lost al the supplies but others in this fire have lost a lot more than I have. My mom is a firefighter and my dad was missing for 2 days cause nobody could find him but he was at a friends house. I’m sorry to all my fellow ridge people paradise strong! (My mom is US force service!) (cal-fire and force service did the work not just cal-fire)
@@rae4421 no it isn't. God is a fairy tale spaghetti wizard man in the sky. Good luck. Pray to him and see when nothing happens. No voice and no answer.
I don't understand, why does the California government not allow controlled burns when the weather is favorable. It's going to burn one way or the other, why not control it ?
Joe Dunbar i am completely agreeing with you. the costs alone of fighting these firss are enough to prevent any fire like this. this is going to happen again; our leaders should find ways to prevent this from happening again. don't just accept that there is nothing we could do against nature.
If the business down the street from me had killed 80+ people because they decided to quite maintenance to pay the owner more, there would be people in jail. Why isn't the CEO of PG&E in jail? He killed those people.
I remember when I was a school, I was just studying like any student would. some students said "Look!", "Its so big!" I didn't think anything of it and continued with my work. when the school day ended I walked outside and I turned around to see if any of my friends were gonna come with me to the bus, but I see a large cloud of smoke. some kids ran from their classes over to others running to their parents or friends and hugging them. I ran as fast as I could to the bus holding onto my friend. when I made it to the other school I was gonna go to for homework studies, half of the kids their were panicking and crying as some tried to hold back their fear of dying and continuing with their work. I went home and I got a email saying my school was cancelled for the next few weeks. to this day still having the wildfires, I still couldn't forget the faces of the little kids going to their moms and dads hugging them in fear and everyones tears,
something ain't right about these fires. you guys noticed how all the houses are burned to ashes, but the trees and the street are in perfect condition. it's like the fire were concentrated to each house and did not spread from house to house.
That bulldozer fighter had big balls.Cars on fire blocking the road and only one road in and out.I lost everything in the Phoenix Oregon fire.I know what it's like to have both sides of the street on fire.Dont ever want to experience that nightmare again.
I remember i was 7 turning 8 and i lived in the town below oroville and i remember seeing from miles away just red flames. I also remember there was smoke everywhere and we had to evacuate to ou uncle and aunt house. My grandma lived in magalia and made the right choice. She lived like on a hill on the mountain and she went uphill instead of down where traffic was and she went uphill then down to my uncles (not the same) and she was there for a week. My fish lived with her and the power went out. He is still alive somehow. HE OUTLIVED HUMANS AND HE WAS A LITTLE FISH!!!
Do you live in CA Cynthia? Were you here to watch the freak August lightning storm that sparked the 3rd largest fire in state history, the same week it was record-breaking temps of up to 120 degrees for the entire week? Did you live through that because I did. Come drive through the neighborhoods that have burned before you start spreading stupid conspiracy theories online.
Notice how the homes are completely gone yet the grass and trees are still there !!! Plastic trash cans were on the streets not even warped and on the same street it shows a car so burned and turned upside down.
Vehicles were abandoned in the roadway....firefighters used heavy equipment to move them out of the way....they could have flipped them over. Another possibility is the driver got into a vehicle accident during the evacuations. Homes incinerated down to foundation with green vegetation immediately next to it also happened during the Oakland hills firestorm 1991.
@@babybrat2958 ...uncle Sam wants the land for the 5 G towers. Wants to drive all Americans towards cities. Agenda 21. Are you from Paradise ? Heard about the people that lived together in the housing track, all had their own dentist. They all came up missing didn't they ? They all escaped underground through the tunnels.
No he doesn’t. You understand that people are rebuilding up there right? Do you have any knowledge of extreme fire behavior or fire history? Do you also believe that they aren’t allowing the rebuilt to take place in the Tubbs Fire 2017 and Carr Fire 2018 burn scars? From my understanding of Agenda 21,single family homes are prohibited from being rebuilt.....yet in both areas people are rebuilding their single family homes. Do you even live here in California?
Yes. Plasma and microwave. There is another DEW fire that was caught on camera by a TV crew. It was a 700 acre GRASS fire, not forest fire.Grass burns much cooler than a forest fire. They needed 500 FF and 6 tankers to control it. How bizarre. But the freaky part was seeing 6 homes far from flames catch on fire from the inside at the same time. they were not next to each other, but random located. There were no embers flying as it was grass. And grass embers would not set 6 homes on fire 300 meters from a grass fires. Once the cameras had recorded this they panned away from the homes.
In 2016 Jerry Brown vetod senate bill 1463 wild fire risks with electrical lines o.c. state Sen. John Moorlach, R-Costa Mesa.Nancy McFadden who was once Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for PG&E than served as the top policy advisor,executive secretary and chief of staff to Gov. Jerry Brown advised him to veto sb 1463.PG&E transposition tower suspected of starting the fire was nearly 100 years old. In 2012 five towers collapsed.All of this because PG&E didn't bother doing upgrades.
Oh no no no.. we can not continue telling the truth to the people you guys!! They will simply shut off the comments under this demented video, "Yes" absolutely demented
We had similar fire in Australia, 2009 40 plus degree day my mum was burnt out on a Mountain and destroyed a whole town 88 plus souls cherished. We are subjected to fire every year, AUSSIE SPIRIT IS KEEP FIGHTING,FOR NOT JUST US BUT OUR BEAUTIFUL WILDLIFE, they always ask for help our wildlife our respects to all
You people have no idea of what we went through. Die in our car as a family? Run, with my disability, trying to carry my kids I wasn’t even supposed to have because of my ovaries?? Or literally, drive through the fire engulfing us? The fire was at our car. There is an amazing story we have, If you people genuinely care that is. We are trying to make a “new normal “,
And to think, this was just a rehearsal, a dry run if you will, of what was to come! Now they're doing it to numerous small towns in OR and WA. So sad and so disgusting. These are truly signs of the times.
i was in schoolwhen it happened im from chicothat morning we saw a huge ploom and as soon as third period hit around 10 o'clock it was black scary just gad that it didnt make it here i dont bleive in god but if hes real i hope every single person that died is with you
I live not to far from Paradise California I live in Willows California 50 miles away there was a lot of people from Paradise here in Willows I talked to many they were devastated which was totally understandable
Sad they never mention they’ve neglected annual back burning , and proper forest husbandry for decades . Not removing dead timber from the Japanese beetles, and allowing people to collect the dead fuel , all the while not back burning the brush is what caused this far more than any drought or winds .
@@paulsmallriver6066 look at all the facts, the conditions. High winds, drought conditions, build up of ground fuel, also fuel in branches, foliage. Some species of trees there are the most flammable and explosive trees that produce huge amounts of fuel of years. Blue gum Eucalyptus, known as gasoline tree. It's been spreading in the bay area for over 170 years, approximately 1 million hectares. You also have to take in account radiant heat. Extreme temperatures up to 1600C. Cause could be anything, one match, one power line, spark from machinery. There's also thousands of witnesses that watched the fires spread. I've heard people say dew attacks, but that's absurd.
Why say that? Oh because this fire spread 29 times FASTER than conventional fire. If Paradise burned in 15 minutes, the public would assume it was just a fire.
This is so humiliating. Had they let the world know the extreme disaster they were going through they probably could have been saved from it being such a travesty.
If your from SoCal imagine driving to Vegas. That's how much this fire burned in that amount of time u took to drive to Vegas .. image your on the 15 an all u see is fire approaching u like all them cops that check your speed limit on the way. When I realized how bad this was all I could do was cry an pray for them an our whole state 🕊️🤍🕊️
The lost so incredible to even describe but the state of California and Butte County have determined to raise my property tax on a completely burnt partial the state of California and the tax collector could care less
9-6-2020 I can’t watch this again. I still cry when I go back to what is left. All my trees are gone, dirt is all that’s left. No more squirrel, deer, ‘poosums. Almost 2yrs now, and It’s still near impossible to rebuild. Only 378 building permits have been approved. I can’t afford to rebuild It’s just too costly.
I was a victim of this fire. This Sheriff was amazing in his organization and diligence. He was also the man who led the evacuation of the Orville dam incident. He should be an example to all Law Enforcement agencies on how to handle disasters.
Oroville Dam was pretty much a panicked evacuation if I recall correctly.
@@maxsmith695I mean you can only evacuate so fast when you’re told the dam is breaking NOW lol
@@maxsmith695 You don't remember right the emergency spillway was very close to failure and could have caused one of the worst disasters in the world
@@ragdump I watched it closely, you are right.
You’re so proud! Did you or someone you know participate in the ‘true’ and very well hidden, secret activities in Paradise? Paradise, California was a racist sundown town. Many Black Americans were killed there by murderous Caucasian monsters. When Paradise burned to the ground, I thanked God. Paradise, California was an evil place. I pray you never rebuild. 🤲🏾🙇🏽♀️✊🏾🇺🇸🔥🔥🔥
It took me over 3 hours to get less than 2 miles at the end of town. Traffic was blocking the police and fire trucks, and people had to get others to pull to the side of the road to let them through. At the end of town there was a power pole down in the two lane road and we were driving around it through the flames. God bless the firefighters, and law enforcement, and everyone that lost their lives.
I was there gridlocked in the bumper to bumper traffic on Clark Road, (I slipped up and had typed Clark Ave). The air was black, with sparks dancing, butane and propane tanks exploding sounding eerily like artillery, the fire was overwhelming the ability of the emergency responders to react, hundreds if not thousands of people came within minutes of being incinerated in place. If the professionalism of the responders had cracked, that is what would have happened. I thank them for my life. All was not perfect but they held up under some of the most intense pressure I have ever witnessed.
The CampFire exceeded all I have ever experienced, two tours in Vietnam, two near drownings, caught in the open by an F4 tornado, typhoons, stranded in a blizzard, mugged, beaten, lightning strike, vehicle and industrial accidents, all pale compared.
From setting out the trash bin at 6:55 am until being gridlocked at 8:30 am, the entire town incinerated by 9:30 am.
Please pray for those who did not survive.
Thank you all.
Lynn Wood it’s Clark Rd not avenue
@@Pywacket4.0Thank you. I did miss that.Will correct.
I was there too. I lived on Bille and the road was packed took 2 hours to get out of town. It was like nite at 8 in the morning
@Tan Le A wheeled garbage can, except now it is a plastic bin with wheels and a lid and a self contained handle, that you take to the street end of the driveway on garbage pick up day.
@Tan Le Yes. Basically an oversized plastic garbage can on two wheels that you tilt and move like you would a mover' s dolly, hand truck.. about a 250' , 80 meter, driveway
We are so very greatful to all the first responders. They saved my sister from the Feather River Hospital, Adventists Health Center
The part she was in burned.
My cousin literally lived next door to the hospital. She lost everything, but she managed to get away to Chico.
Did anyone tell you it was volcano activity
I was personally affected by this fire. House didn’t burn but I havent felt comfortable ever since. This fire messed me up
We got burned out completely but it was almost worse for our few friends that didn't loose everything. For weeks like the rest of us they didn't even know if they had a house or not and a month after returned to a devalued home without services in a neighborhood devoid of life. Most of us had moved on to other places shortly after but living in a ghost town and loosing all your friends to the fire or forced out by the destruction was hard for the few that had somewhere to return to. Pretty crappy situation for all of us.
After evacuating and relocating from the Carr fire I remember that morning. The wind was crazy and I told my wife that if a fire starts today it will be devastating. I will never forget that moment. Within an hour the news started coming that paradise was on fire. I am so sorry for your loss.
My cousin's sister lives in Paradise. Her house burned down. But, a week ago, she had a house warming party and a whole bunch of family came. It was really nice!
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A few years earlier, emergency services had rehearsed an evacuation of the town. They realized even then that the roads would become hopelessly gridlocked. They devised an elaborate evacuation scheme, whereby the town would be evacuated section by section. But this fire spread so fast that the evacuation plan became irrelevant.
The problem with evacuation routes which rely on narrow roads is that it only takes one idiot to gridlock the entire plan. There are actually people so dumb, or who can get so rattled, that they don't realize that stopping to argue with your buddy about whether to proceed or stop automatically makes the decision for everyone behind you.
hundreds of unreported dead. huge lines of cars. too graphic for media/public.
Cite your source
@@babybrat2958 -- On TH-cam, watch "Escaping Paradise | California Wildfires: The New Normal" starting at 8:16.
I always wondered how they managed to get gridlocked wasn’t everybody going one way? Why wasn’t everybody flooring it? Watching documentaries of the entire town evacuating reminded me of traffic on a freeway which usually happens when someone in front or people in front are nosy slowing down looking at cops pulling over someone etc and I never understood it like what can be exciting about a fire coming towards you why was there even a gridlock happening on one road going one way?
My home was on there. What was my home rather. My family lived there in that same place for over 50 years. We lost everything as you can see here, they actually showed my burned home here.
Sgili *I’m so sorry...I hope everyone got out safely.* 🙏🏻
I'm very sorry for your loss, but glad you escaped.
I bet when you got your money i bet Commifornia took most the money that you could of yoused to rebuild your life
@@mefford67 With the help from my wonderful dog Bear who pulled me through the flames without even hesitating I got out. The town labeled my Bear a "dangerous animal",,, they could not have been more wrong, he is my hero. My son lost his guitar building business but has recovered and has been building again.
Hi, contact me at 7024296355 I will put you in touch with RFB or with a number of podcasters , Jamie at A Plane Truth would also love to get your story, thank you
That guy driving the bulldozer had more guts than a government mule! I worked in public safety for 32-years and have been in that situation myself. What keeps you going when every survival instinct says to turn back is this.... the easier choice was to keep going. If you turn back, you still have to look in the mirror.
Yup, you're not wrong. Experience is usually needed for people to understand that... you have to live with your actions, and lack of actions just the same.
Speechless at the heroism and selflessness.
I am so sorry about what has happened to this town, it’s so heartbreaking! Everybody who lived in Paradise is here in my heart even if I don’t know them, they’re here in my heart! It’s all so shocking to me that something like this happened! But, we all need to have hope that things will get better and all will not be lost!
Despite appearances, many of the trees did burn, primarily soft woods (like Pines, Cedars, Maples, etc.). Black Oaks and Valley Oaks on the other hand take much more flame and heat to catch and tended to survive when further away from the structures. If you visit the town now, many areas that were fairly dense have been cleared and resemble that of a logging operation. I know this because I lost my home in this fire and visit Paradise multiple times per week.
Llived in Paradise for a decade (moved to Chico prior to the fire). The lack of trees alone make it look like another world. Sorry for your loss! Where are you now?
SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS TRUST GOD HAS LANDED YOU SAFELY ELSEWHERE 🙏🛡🗡🏆🇺🇸
The Eucalyptus is what made the fire severe as well as the strong winds.
@@michaelparsons2225 What Eucalyptus? Are you talking about the fires in Australia?
@@KPB0853 Eucalyptus was planted in California in the 1850s by the thousands.
Blue gum Eucalyptus is the one that thrived the best, it's known as Gasoline tree because it's so explosive.
The Oakland fires were over 50 percent blue gum.
There's probably around 2 million acres of it all over the bay area of California.
It thrives on fire, it creates an environmental for fire and it needs fire for its survival.
I clearly remembered this, especially since we live here in Northern California. although our city was a couple hours away, the smoke from this fire travelled more than 400 miles. this and now the same tragedy out in Maui, Hawaii. prayers to all who perished.
These men are the true description of courage and heroism. They did it not for the attention or the accolades. They did it because it was the compassionate thing to do.
Yes 🙏😢😢🍩☕🌹💋love fire dept
WOW THEY RAN AWAY REMEMBER
COWARDS
NOT REAL FOREST FIREFIGHTRRS
My dad was on the fire as recovery team, I can’t imagine what this was like
It makes m so angry that PG & E just keep letting this happen over and over. Those Executives need to be in prison and that piece of crap company taken down.
It’s on American greed tv show .
I'm a victim of that fire and I still live in rv and no prospects it ruined my life
I lost everything that I worked for my entire life, thanks pge
Used to have a lot of family and friends here. You still around here Brother?
You can also thank CA leftist insane liberal fire preventative policies that have turned forests into raging infernos.
Notice how the only place in the world this happens is......in Californian.
Tree cutting has been banned, cattle, goats and sheep are not allowed to graze to clear ground cover, etc etc etc.
@@tmunson5568 Yes... let's get political when it's clear that PG&E had failed to maintain/replace failing electrical infrastructure. The issue then exacerbated by drought, and wind. It doesn't matter how much clean up anyone does in many cases, a single ember can be carried by wind and if it hits something that can ignite, it's gonna ignite... Know what that does? Create more embers to again be carried by wind, starting more fires. 40mph winds aren't going to blow out a fire, they're going to spread it FAST.
What you can REALLY thank, is urban spread. People love to live in the wilderness, in areas that 30 years ago were uninhabited or minimally inhabited, save for vacation cabins. The metal frames you see on all those home sites, mean these homes were modular/mobile homes, that are all essentially tinderboxes READY to go up. Much of the terrain out there, it isn't even feasible to have livestock graze to clear ground cover, if any of it would even be edible.
What used to be used, was controlled burns, but with several years of major drought, even when it's NOT fire season, those are out of the question. But yea, let's totally blame politics. How about Gatlinburg Tennessee? Tennessee is a Republican stronghold, yet look at what happened there. Sure that took a few days, and was a total failure to react for of all things a holiday weekend; But they're also documented saying that a major fire without weather assistance to put out would easily wipe out 200k acres.
@@717dash_cam cool. move to the city
You won't have to worry about wild fires any more.
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@@tmunson5568 Shut up and move to Russia, and you won't have to worry about liberals anymore..
My name is Connie I am 70years ago. I bought my for ever home in paradise and loved it on November 8th I lost every thing I ever had I have no pictures of my family or my son as he was growing up of my life as a mother and wife .I couldn't even proof that I ever was alive .I don't know how to get thru I feel lost I still have my son I am blessed and will try to go on But I'm not sure how to do this. Who am I???
Hello Connie. How are you now?
My friend Aaron lost everything in this fire he's been living in Oceanside in a camper ever since
I was there up in magalia up by mastorson, my brother was getging his tonsils removed, he is 10 now, i'm 22, we smelt smoke then saw the sky was RED ASF, went home to get my dog and cat, when we got out the house with our animals, we saw the fire all by Hills Country store and by colter next t our house, we left up to gridly and stayed at the shelter for 2 - 3 weeks and we got Noro-virus, luckily no one in my family died, but now its 2024, my family lives in magalia besides my, I live in chico now, heard they are building alot of new stuff, but RIP to everyone who died, may you rest up in heaven and any family who lived, I wish you the best of life.
Corey Honea is someone who hasn't failed to impress me, both through the Oroville Dam mess and the Camp Fire. I don't think he was getting much rest in the aftermath of the fire, but he remained professional (though not always suffering fools), throughout.
Joe Kennedy was definitely a hero, as were others.
Thank you first responders for all you did, at your own peril, despite what each of you lost, and were losing while you were saving lives.
You had the right priorities!
3 years ago today I lived this. I will never forget the nightmare of watching my town burn down. #Buttestrong #Paradisestrong
Sorry for the loss of your town. I only knew it for five months, having moved there in June of 2018, from Seattle. In my short time in Paradise I quickly came to love the town and the community. An amazing place to live. I really enjoyed my short time there.
I was living on Foland Rd and the morning of the fire I was listening to the radio and watching my phone for an evacuation order. There was none. When I started hearing propane tanks exploding in the distance, around 8:45am, I stopped waiting for an official order and jumped in my truck and headed for Chico.
I didn't get far. Trying to turn right off Foland onto Pearson I had to wait for several minutes for someone to let me in. Traffic was gridlocked. Over the next 45 minutes the sky got darker, with an orange glow to the NE getting brighter and brighter. During that time we moved about 3/4 of a mile. I thought for sure we were going to have to abandon vehicles and run for it. It seemed inevitable that the fire was going to over run us. The amazing thing, incredible really, was that while all the civilian traffic was headed West on Pearson, trying to get to Clark, emergency vehicles were headed in the other direction, directly into the oncoming fire. I will never forget he courage shown by those firefighters. I've never seen anything like it before, or since.
Just when I thought that we in real trouble, the police turned Pearson into a one way road. With two lanes now headed West, instead of just one, traffic really got moving and in a few minutes we were turning left at the Ace Hardware Store, onto Clark, and we were free, able to drive down to Chico, albeit by a very circuitous route.
Further down Clark, by the airport, the fire had jumped the road. That was the closest I got to actual flames. From what I have learned in the the last 3 years about the speed and timeline of the fire, if I had left my house 30 mins later I would not have had such a clean getaway. Even though I lost everything that I owned in the fire that day, knowing what I know now, I consider myself to be very lucky.
Lost my home in this fire, fire authorities have officially determined that Pacific Gas and Electric Co. was responsible for last year’s deadly Camp Fire in Paradise, California.
Big Rico Wrong. Look up at The Most High Yah, who strikes the match.
@@patricialucious5091 - It was Jah Rasta Man.
They did the dew? sorry in my thoughts are with u and anyone visiting
Like ya didn't know how the Rothschild' operate.!!!!! I'm sorry they burned you out.
Possible answers look up ... Eadge of wonder paradise fire
I was there in the gridlock on Skyway for several hours, nothing moving, dark as midnight at 12 noon, wondering for the first time since my tour in Vietnam, if this was where I was going to die, holding my 2 dogs and wishing I could say goodbye to my family and friends... as luck would have it, the traffic finally began to move and after driving thru the flames to get down Skyway and on into Chico...
I remember the blue streak of energy coming form the sky and impacting the area. I saw an angel standing over the Catholic church and it did not burn.
@@maxsmith695 ...really?? when I returned 5 weeks later, there wasn't a building left standing, not even the churches were spared...
We lost our retirment home and everything we'd collected from around the world. Didn't matter since they were just things. We had our lives when others didn't. We bought another home in the Sierra foothills and now we have trouble with fire insurance. Our broker told us a few days after we closed that we are living in the next "Paradise". Hmm... I love it here and love our home so the only way I'll move again is if we are burned out again! I sure hope not!!!
Thank goodness for the fire fighters and for all who are courageous and helpful in times of horrific disasters. so sorry for all , including the wildlife .
Peeps from Paradise, Cali
I feel bad for all of you!
I'm sorry for your loss!
And I hope all of you have a happy rest of your life!
those are some very very fireproof trees and leaves. huh, thats odd??
It's amazing how cars were melted yet the trees still stand.
D.E.W. again,nobody sees what's really happening.
Why was FEMA set up weeks before the fire,why a road diet,and fire drill the week before.
Scott Collom lol conspiracy much?
@@comptonghost9013 LOL Dale. GREAT comment. Maybe Scott can tell us where Jimmy Hoffa is buried...and what became of Judge Crater.
Strangest fire....something just not right about this fire. Just look at the ruins and you can see that something is weird and NO CONSPIRACY....just common sense l used when I saw incinerated homes and vehicles.
Everything in and on a car is flammable and so are homes. Trees are full of moisture an water
I lived this and went through it with my teacher she took me and 4 other students through the fire it was one of the craziest days of my life I was stuck at the chico fairgrounds with out my family for about 5 hours lost my home and my childhood home :( I’m glad to be up here and rebuilding though ! #buttestrong
We lost everything. Lived off of Bille rd. We rebuilt, permit #109. This is hard to watch!
I live in Portugal and the year of 2017 wil be forever printed in our memories for the worst reasons.
In two separate occasions 17 June and 15 october we lost 112 people due to the wilde fires. Never in our history we have so many casualties. Small villages were littered destroyed. The fires spreading 4 km in 10 min, just insane. The lack of cooperation and coordination and the failure in the emergency communications lead to this catastrophic result. The origin of the fire in June was the power line cable. The wind blows at 100 km/h and the temperatures wel above 38° Celsius.
So the ingredients were there and the result was 66 people dead 50 factorys and 500 homes were lost.
In 15 October 2017 we have 500 wild fires in one day, never in Portugal we saw such tragedy. The fire was cause for arseners and the weather was just perfect to cause a fire storm multiply in many cities in all Portugal. 46 people lost their lives and hundreds of buildings and factorys were destroyed
@The Real Miss Mia every single year its the same. In this summer 2022 a natural reserve burn almost completely, and the causes of the fires is 90% arseners
@The Real Miss Mia here in Portugal our law protect the criminals, even if you face a court of law the sentence will be always in freedom. That's is wrong because the destruction caused by the fires its tremendous
I don't understand why this experienced reporter did not ask "What could be done to avoid this from happening in the future."
Carlos Martinez because we simply can’t
Can't or won't? I'm not from California it's heart breaking to see this every year happening.
He may have asked. We're seeing an edited version of hours of work. Plus, I think this piece was focused on the people rather than prevention.
because when a firestorm starts only mother-nature or a lack of fuel can put it out .
Can't and won't. Won't because the people responsible will never be held responsible other then having to throw money at the survivors of their catastrophic mistake. Can't because California will always be an inferno, and that is coming from me, a person who has lived in California my entire life.
I worked a lot at Butte County Community College. Sometimes I had to spend the weekend there. I went into Paradise, CA just to sight-see. I found a huge Pine Cone and brought it back from the canyons because of the novelty of the size of the cone. I can't imagine the devastation that took place there!
I give all MY respect to firemen and police, paramadics and im sorry for everyone loss
My dad has a friend whose house and all his personal belongings were lost in this fire. I pray extra hard he and nobody else from that town has committed or even contemplated suicide.
Same here and I don’t even know him but things can always be replaced your life can’t be replaced your only given one life and with the love of his family friends strangers and others who went through this I know that God will see him through this horrible situation as well 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
This is a beautiful place to see. I enjoy documenting the regrowth and nature here.
What are you talking about? It’s one of the most depressing places to be in California. Unless you like to see the signs of death and destruction.
I can't speak for everybody but for most of us who lived there before and during the fire have little interest in how well the place is growing. I never felt too comfortable returning for long. It never felt the same. Just about everybody we knew moved away anyways.
my friend lives in paradise, i hope he was alright :(
i remember i couldnt even go outside because the smoke was close to my town
@Nicofanforever GAMING r u ok?
Bless everyone in paradise 😢😢😢
My aunt lives in oroville, ca, her friends were in paradise, I remember as child paradise being beautiful town, country, friendly people, farm land, I was worried sick, I live in socal, so I couldnt even get flight out to Sacramento due to flight cancellation due to smoke. Thank god my auntie is safe. Her friends are missing. Paradise strong they are ❤️❤️❤️
Rebecca Reynolds Definitely not farmland
@@itsrocketscience7693 Definitely was farmland. Paradise used to be more apple and olive orchards than anything else.
Gary McGrath Are you kidding me right now? There was literally one orchard off pentz rd and the rest of residential areas covered in trees. I know where I grew up and Durham and Redding is actual farmland compared to paradise. You don’t swim in rivers and climb up trees in farmland lmfao!!
Gary McGrath Apple and orchards? Where did yo go to? Must of went to Biggs and thought it was paradise. When you live on a ridge line of a mountain it isn’t farmland!!
@@itsrocketscience7693 I guess you don't comprehend what you read very well? Paradise was apple and olive orchards many years ago, and that is probably what Rebecca is reminiscing about. I know where I am at.
People don’t understand that when the brain loses oxygen, lights out, you’re dead. Those people who they picked up were very lucky. It’s not fire that kills you, it’s the smoke.
I don't know why people blame wildfires on global warming, I don't think it is I think personally that it's a lack of forestry that's leading to the wildfires in California and all over the West Coast.
It hurts watching your home town burn down to the ground knowing so many people died. My grandparents almost died in this fire, my school burnt, 86 (I think) people died. Paradise is not the same one day we will rise..I made it out okay but knowing others didn’t hurts. God bless my home town and god bless the families who has lost someone or there homes everyone was so brave. We had to drop and leave almost everything and I have type 1 diabetes and lost al the supplies but others in this fire have lost a lot more than I have. My mom is a firefighter and my dad was missing for 2 days cause nobody could find him but he was at a friends house. I’m sorry to all my fellow ridge people paradise strong! (My mom is US force service!) (cal-fire and force service did the work not just cal-fire)
God doesn't exist. Fool
@@reviewgodusa9613 that’s your opinion :)
@@rae4421 no it isn't. God is a fairy tale spaghetti wizard man in the sky. Good luck. Pray to him and see when nothing happens. No voice and no answer.
@@reviewgodusa9613 um….can you stop I’m tryna play Minecraft 🤨✋
@@reviewgodusa9613 also if you don’t believe in god then why have him in your username
The reporter hasn't a clue about interviewing, he's asking the dumbest questions
Worst day ever for me in 2018
I don't understand, why does the California government not allow controlled burns when the weather is favorable.
It's going to burn one way or the other, why not control it ?
Joe Dunbar i am completely agreeing with you. the costs alone of fighting these firss are enough to prevent any fire like this. this is going to happen again; our leaders should find ways to prevent this from happening again. don't just accept that there is nothing we could do against nature.
Most of the land is owned by the federal govt, not the state.
@@paulsmallriver6066 okay substitute federal government for California state government. I still have the same question.
@@joedunbarjr Money, personnel, apathy and complacency in my opinion.
Environmentalists!
If the business down the street from me had killed 80+ people because they decided to quite maintenance to pay the owner more, there would be people in jail. Why isn't the CEO of PG&E in jail? He killed those people.
I remember when I was a school, I was just studying like any student would. some students said "Look!", "Its so big!" I didn't think anything of it and continued with my work. when the school day ended I walked outside and I turned around to see if any of my friends were gonna come with me to the bus, but I see a large cloud of smoke. some kids ran from their classes over to others running to their parents or friends and hugging them. I ran as fast as I could to the bus holding onto my friend. when I made it to the other school I was gonna go to for homework studies, half of the kids their were panicking and crying as some tried to hold back their fear of dying and continuing with their work. I went home and I got a email saying my school was cancelled for the next few weeks. to this day still having the wildfires, I still couldn't forget the faces of the little kids going to their moms and dads hugging them in fear and everyones tears,
Lies
The firefighters are true héros. Thank you very much.
something ain't right about these fires. you guys noticed how all the houses are burned to ashes, but the trees and the street are in perfect condition. it's like the fire were concentrated to each house and did not spread from house to house.
This isn't any normal fire. Houses don't burn to nothing but ash. There's always something left. It's nothing but ashes.
watching this in 2020 with even worse fires ....
I used to live there and I saw my house burning on the news.. I had 4 birds and they all burned 🥺😔
That bulldozer fighter had big balls.Cars on fire blocking the road and only one road in and out.I lost everything in the Phoenix Oregon fire.I know what it's like to have both sides of the street on fire.Dont ever want to experience that nightmare again.
I remember i was 7 turning 8 and i lived in the town below oroville and i remember seeing from miles away just red flames. I also remember there was smoke everywhere and we had to evacuate to ou uncle and aunt house. My grandma lived in magalia and made the right choice. She lived like on a hill on the mountain and she went uphill instead of down where traffic was and she went uphill then down to my uncles (not the same) and she was there for a week. My fish lived with her and the power went out. He is still alive somehow. HE OUTLIVED HUMANS AND HE WAS A LITTLE FISH!!!
I saw an angel standing guard over the Catholic church in town and it was the only Church that did not burn down.
They went from a palace to the projects. Life does change for people when drastic disasters happen.
A hippy town for retirees that doesn't have the funds for a central water main is hardly a palace. Wake me up when a gated community burns down.
Rip to all lost and thank you to all who helped 🙏❤️🙌✝️
This is NOT a "Wild Fire", "Forest Fire", or "House Fires" - these are strategic Directed Energy Weapons fires -
Or Smart Meter fires -
Do you live in CA Cynthia? Were you here to watch the freak August lightning storm that sparked the 3rd largest fire in state history, the same week it was record-breaking temps of up to 120 degrees for the entire week? Did you live through that because I did. Come drive through the neighborhoods that have burned before you start spreading stupid conspiracy theories online.
Stop the crazy.
Notice how the homes are completely gone yet the grass and trees are still there !!! Plastic trash cans were on the streets not even warped and on the same street it shows a car so burned and turned upside down.
Vehicles were abandoned in the roadway....firefighters used heavy equipment to move them out of the way....they could have flipped them over. Another possibility is the driver got into a vehicle accident during the evacuations. Homes incinerated down to foundation with green vegetation immediately next to it also happened during the Oakland hills firestorm 1991.
@@babybrat2958 ...uncle Sam wants the land for the 5 G towers. Wants to drive all Americans towards cities. Agenda 21. Are you from Paradise ? Heard about the people that lived together in the housing track, all had their own dentist. They all came up missing didn't they ? They all escaped underground through the tunnels.
No he doesn’t. You understand that people are rebuilding up there right? Do you have any knowledge of extreme fire behavior or fire history? Do you also believe that they aren’t allowing the rebuilt to take place in the Tubbs Fire 2017 and Carr Fire 2018 burn scars? From my understanding of Agenda 21,single family homes are prohibited from being rebuilt.....yet in both areas people are rebuilding their single family homes.
Do you even live here in California?
@@babybrat2958 ...no, I live in Nevada . So is it true about all of those people being missing from the fire in Paradise?
@@melissadavis713285 people “officially” died in the fire.
Rented RV...? I wouldn't want to rent that RV after
So strange that most trees are not burned only the houses! Electro magnetc weapon ???
Yes. Plasma and microwave. There is another DEW fire that was caught on camera by a TV crew. It was a 700 acre GRASS fire, not forest fire.Grass burns much cooler than a forest fire. They needed 500 FF and 6 tankers to control it. How bizarre. But the freaky part was seeing 6 homes far from flames catch on fire from the inside at the same time. they were not next to each other, but random located. There were no embers flying as it was grass. And grass embers would not set 6 homes on fire 300 meters from a grass fires. Once the cameras had recorded this they panned away from the homes.
That bulldozer driver is the biggest chad
My question is, what stops these fires? How do they not just keep going and going?
In 2016 Jerry Brown vetod senate bill 1463 wild fire risks with electrical lines o.c. state Sen. John Moorlach, R-Costa Mesa.Nancy McFadden who was once Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for PG&E than served as the top policy advisor,executive secretary and chief of staff to Gov. Jerry Brown advised him to veto sb 1463.PG&E transposition tower suspected of starting the fire was nearly 100 years old. In 2012 five towers collapsed.All of this because PG&E didn't bother doing upgrades.
Oh no no no.. we can not continue telling the truth to the people you guys!! They will simply shut off the comments under this demented video, "Yes" absolutely demented
Upgrades cut into profit.
That’s Was 5 Years Ago
We had similar fire in Australia, 2009
40 plus degree day my mum was burnt out on a Mountain and destroyed a whole town 88 plus souls cherished.
We are subjected to fire every year,
AUSSIE SPIRIT IS KEEP FIGHTING,FOR NOT JUST US BUT OUR BEAUTIFUL WILDLIFE, they always ask for help our wildlife our respects to all
Place looks nuts on Google Earth a year later
Did you see the house that burned in half?
You people have no idea of what we went through. Die in our car as a family? Run, with my disability, trying to carry my kids I wasn’t even supposed to have because of my ovaries?? Or literally, drive through the fire engulfing us? The fire was at our car. There is an amazing story we have, If you people genuinely care that is. We are trying to make a “new normal “,
putting people in bags because they burned so bad... thats dark
And to think, this was just a rehearsal, a dry run if you will, of what was to come! Now they're doing it to numerous small towns in OR and WA. So sad and so disgusting. These are truly signs of the times.
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I just finished filming a movie with Matthew Mconahaey about this Fire. "The Lost Bus"
i saw this. God forgive me for mentally telling that one lady to stop complaining that she had to walk
i was in schoolwhen it happened im from chicothat morning we saw a huge ploom and as soon as third period hit around 10 o'clock it was black scary just gad that it didnt make it here i dont bleive in god but if hes real i hope every single person that died is with you
Very Horrible all the fires from Paradise to the present day. California will never be the same. Very Tragic.
This is nothing. 2020 and beyond is when things get really bad.
Where are the trees 🌲 pines and cedars 🌲 etc…??? Gov needs to do something about it!!
I live not to far from Paradise California
I live in Willows California 50 miles away there was a lot of people from Paradise here in Willows I talked to many they were devastated which was totally understandable
Sad they never mention they’ve neglected annual back burning , and proper forest husbandry for decades . Not removing dead timber from the Japanese beetles, and allowing people to collect the dead fuel , all the while not back burning the brush is what caused this far more than any drought or winds .
It’s no accident or natural
No it absolutely isn't. This is part of Agenda 21.
Of course it's natural, the ignition source may not have been natural, apparently tree branch on a lower line.
But this is how fires burn.
prove it
@@paulsmallriver6066 look at all the facts, the conditions.
High winds, drought conditions, build up of ground fuel, also fuel in branches, foliage.
Some species of trees there are the most flammable and explosive trees that produce huge amounts of fuel of years.
Blue gum Eucalyptus, known as gasoline tree.
It's been spreading in the bay area for over 170 years, approximately 1 million hectares.
You also have to take in account radiant heat.
Extreme temperatures up to 1600C.
Cause could be anything, one match, one power line, spark from machinery.
There's also thousands of witnesses that watched the fires spread.
I've heard people say dew attacks, but that's absurd.
DEW
Why say that? Oh because this fire spread 29 times FASTER than conventional fire. If Paradise burned in 15 minutes, the public would assume it was just a fire.
You see the Sheriff playing it back in his head.
The trees look beautiful, but too many too thick can be deadly! Especially true these days!
This is so humiliating. Had they let the world know the extreme disaster they were going through they probably could have been saved from it being such a travesty.
Sorry but California is NOT worth all that for me to be living there.....I would have moved out of that state long time ago.
Jose Gray no one cares where you live, move on!!! CA doesn’t want you anyways.
You can run but what is happening in Ca. will follow you everywhere you go!Better to stand up against these Communist U.N.Oligarchs
@@j.s.1990 Your precious CA is about to be turned into Meheco 2.0 dipshit.
If your from SoCal imagine driving to Vegas. That's how much this fire burned in that amount of time u took to drive to Vegas .. image your on the 15 an all u see is fire approaching u like all them cops that check your speed limit on the way. When I realized how bad this was all I could do was cry an pray for them an our whole state 🕊️🤍🕊️
STOP CALLING THIS A CAMPFIRE!!!!!!!!
It's not "a campfire" it's "the Camp Fire". It's named after the road near where it started (Camp Creek)
It started in Camp Creek. Do some research before you embarrass yourself!
And, as predicted . . . it has gotten worse !
This has all been written and foretold.
Damn scotch broom is coming back with a vengeance this year.
And now the Dixie fire..size of New York
60 minutes is more like 40 with commercials
I went through this,, I love Sheriff Kory Honea
The dogs need to be wearing protective pawwear.
And im sorry for everyone child that got HURT BY the fire
Who is here after pg&e is pretty much responsible for another fire 7x the size of paradise fire?
Video instagram.com/tv/B4TYicOnvwC/
The lost so incredible to even describe but the state of California and Butte County have determined to raise my property tax on a completely burnt partial the state of California and the tax collector could care less
9-6-2020 I can’t watch this again. I still cry when I go back to what is left.
All my trees are gone, dirt is all that’s left. No more squirrel, deer, ‘poosums.
Almost 2yrs now, and It’s still near impossible to rebuild.
Only 378 building permits have been approved. I can’t afford to rebuild It’s just too costly.
So sorry
I was there, my home town
Mine too 💜
My home was there......I miss home.....my cats died
I'm so sorry for your loss. 💜
Oh Wow! I am so sorry for your loss. I lost one of my girls last year and still grieving.
Why are they doing this?
was this started by a camp fire or spontaneous combustion.
Downed power line sparked the fire and high winds drove the fire towards Paradise
Your answer can be heard at the 0:15 mark