💯 You are bang on with every point. The discussion here (LA) has noted that the evacuation routes weren't adequate for able bodied people or cars. There were traffic jams. Cars were left abandoned and people who could, walked or ran away from the fires. There are multiple layers of mistakes and they go back decades. Fixing things will take a long time.
100. Thank you for saying this. Its not that we simply don’t take care of our own. For the most part, we haven’t even put plans in place to make able bodied people able to help if they want to. That’s how far behind we are in thinking about people who have existed for all of human history.
Thank you for discussing this Dana. As someone who is registered blind, and living in the UK, the issue of climate change that helps in leading to natural disasters has been a concern for myself and others in the disability community for years. Our topic of conversation is around flooding and emergency evacuation plans (or lack of them), and what happened in America is shocking for disabled people. Within the UK and with respect to flooding, mobility aids would be useless and human help/assistance would be challenging. We are not professionals. Just a group of concerned friends, who periodically discuss this topic amongst ourselves. The horrors in America that you have described with the fire is what we all fear x
This LA situation has been tearing me up. I lived there for a few years and my job at the time legit kept me in my car ALL the time so I know every street and neighborhood that's being destroyed by this....its so hard. I feel so tremendously for everyone touched by these fires...😥
You are an amazing friend for talking about this so candidly, especially as someone who doesn't have quite the same issues as your friend. Not enough people think about what someone goes through living life as a disabled person and how terrifying it must feel to not be able to physically get away from something and have to rely on others for help. We all should be incredibly angry about how people with disabilities are treated - none of those individuals should have died in the fire. Thank you so much, I hope your video makes someone think about someone else in their life who may be disabled and what they can do better in their normal relationship but also in emergencies like this. This also makes me think about how much people are pressured to keep their disabilities to themselves or how much disabilities isolate them so no one ever sees them. Out of sight out of mind kind of thing. Or people think about them too late.
As an Aussie, these Californian fires are terrifying. I've also volunteered for one of the emergency service here as well as completing a bush fire course through adult college. So I have a fair bit of knowledge a lot of people don't. But yeah people with disabilities are often overlooked in emergencies. I think there's been some changes since then but still a long way to go. I know there was a recent meeting about this, but I wonder if I should write to a few organisations after watching this video
These stories are terrible. I am visually impaired and cannot drive. In my own case I have lived on my street so long (40 years) that I’m a feature of my block-I think one or two neighbors would remember me in a disaster. Obviously most disabled people don’t have this kind of situation though.
Thank you for covering such an important disability topic! It means a lot to me.
Commenting to boost this. Thank you for making this video.
Thank you for this video (and for all the others .. but especially this one).
💯 You are bang on with every point. The discussion here (LA) has noted that the evacuation routes weren't adequate for able bodied people or cars. There were traffic jams. Cars were left abandoned and people who could, walked or ran away from the fires. There are multiple layers of mistakes and they go back decades. Fixing things will take a long time.
100. Thank you for saying this. Its not that we simply don’t take care of our own. For the most part, we haven’t even put plans in place to make able bodied people able to help if they want to. That’s how far behind we are in thinking about people who have existed for all of human history.
You are such a good speaker❤️ This is important to talk about, and you are doing the right thing.
Thank you for discussing this Dana. As someone who is registered blind, and living in the UK, the issue of climate change that helps in leading to natural disasters has been a concern for myself and others in the disability community for years. Our topic of conversation is around flooding and emergency evacuation plans (or lack of them), and what happened in America is shocking for disabled people.
Within the UK and with respect to flooding, mobility aids would be useless and human help/assistance would be challenging.
We are not professionals. Just a group of concerned friends, who periodically discuss this topic amongst ourselves. The horrors in America that you have described with the fire is what we all fear x
I'm crying listening to this. My father has Parkinsons and my mother has bad arthritis so this really hits, they wouldn't be able to escape 😢
Well said
that is absolutely heartbreaking..
Thank you Dana I agree with you with this we must not leave disabled people to suffer in any way not on.
This LA situation has been tearing me up. I lived there for a few years and my job at the time legit kept me in my car ALL the time so I know every street and neighborhood that's being destroyed by this....its so hard. I feel so tremendously for everyone touched by these fires...😥
7:53 to be fair, orange man told his nephew that that's exactly what should happen. 🤦♀️
You are an amazing friend for talking about this so candidly, especially as someone who doesn't have quite the same issues as your friend. Not enough people think about what someone goes through living life as a disabled person and how terrifying it must feel to not be able to physically get away from something and have to rely on others for help. We all should be incredibly angry about how people with disabilities are treated - none of those individuals should have died in the fire. Thank you so much, I hope your video makes someone think about someone else in their life who may be disabled and what they can do better in their normal relationship but also in emergencies like this. This also makes me think about how much people are pressured to keep their disabilities to themselves or how much disabilities isolate them so no one ever sees them. Out of sight out of mind kind of thing. Or people think about them too late.
Thank for the important video.
You are quite right
Love your jumper
Yep, it is frightening.
By the way on a side note I really like your jumper. Where did you buy it?
As an Aussie, these Californian fires are terrifying. I've also volunteered for one of the emergency service here as well as completing a bush fire course through adult college. So I have a fair bit of knowledge a lot of people don't. But yeah people with disabilities are often overlooked in emergencies. I think there's been some changes since then but still a long way to go. I know there was a recent meeting about this, but I wonder if I should write to a few organisations after watching this video
These stories are terrible. I am visually impaired and cannot drive. In my own case I have lived on my street so long (40 years) that I’m a feature of my block-I think one or two neighbors would remember me in a disaster. Obviously most disabled people don’t have this kind of situation though.