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Where I live tornados and Yellowstone erupting are the major threats. But I still worry about more than that, like the grid going down. No one else takes it seriously. The people I know who have fireplaces won't even buy firewood in case of a power outage in the winter, which we HAVE experienced before. My Dad takes it seriously, but he can't convince Mom to, and he'd have to to prepare properly because she controls the family finances. I had to buy them firewood and materials to make a small, basic firewood rack, because they're one of the 2 households I know who have fireplaces but won't buy wood. I admit I don't have an evac plan, because there's no disaster for which an evacuation would actually help unless we got out of town well in advance, like when you know a hurricane may be coming, and we don't get those here. And I don't have a car. So most of my plans are oriented around sheltering in place. If I have to leave, I have multiple boxes of various supplies, plus a tent and a sleeping bag. As long as the weather isn't too insane or there's radioactive fallout, I'm prepared to set up a campsite wherever is available if I do have to leave and someone brings me and my stuff with them.

Stories just beginning. Not forgotten

Now we understand how trees dont burn next too homes..murder

In 03 and 11 when the smoke turned black I knew it was bad

I am a survivor of the April 27, 2011 tornadoes. My home in in central Alabama. My town was severely hit. I understand the shock, devastation, heartbreak and grief. I understand how much it takes to rebuild. My heart goes out to the people of Paradise.

I am a survivor of the April 27, 2011 tornadoes. My home in in central Alabama. My town was severely hit. I understand the shock, devastation, heartbreak and grief. I understand how much it takes to rebuild.

I miss seeing our baseball games!! My daughter's play softball!

Fire nation attacked

I always find it so sad for American citizens that the government never learns from the disasters of other countries to put in safety measures they always wait till it happens to them. Many of the bush fire safety measures they put in place are ones we've had in Australia for years that we learnt through loss that they're needed. So many life's and livelihoods could be saved if everyone learned from everyone

I live about 60 miles from Paradise. During the Camp Fire there were ashes falling on our cars. I try to watch all of the documentaries, videos, and stories about the Camp Fire. I appreciate the format and purpose of this video. It is set up to help people know they need to be prepared. It is indeed easy for people to say what should have been done. I've seen that in the comments of other videos. In my opinion so many things, and systems went wrong during this fire. No one could have predicted just how bad it would be because everything that could go bad did, essentially forming the "perfect storm". The people of Paradise who helped their neighbors and all of the first responders are true heroes! I don't think most communities (of 52,000 people) would be able to stay calm in that situation! Look how many of us lose it in traffic when we aren't running from flames! Thank you!

This documentary is incredible, not just for its insanely good production quality, but for an angle and perspective at such a scope that I’d never considered. Good heavens…this documentary should have received numerous awards. SO well done, SO well produced, SO emotional. It’s nothing short of spectacular in its eye-opening depth.

I was a lowboy for BOTH, was supposed to be a lowboy for the camp fire too, but was too far away and the fire was too intense. I was asked to mobilize, then SHORTLY after, informed of the situation amd told to stand down til further notice

These areas were WARNED by the humboldt and pearson fires.

They were overwhelmed. First responders went into rescue immediately to save lives and only had time for that. There needs to be appointed residents through out the areas at one mile distances to communicate sight on fire. Cell service and modern day communications seem not to be able to be trusted. Maybe CBs? There has to be a better way. This fire was reported north of Concow as it spread past. They were not given current status when calling about fire information. The fire was in Paridise when the evacuation was ordered.

We haven't learned a damn thing. Blm USFS numbers are down across the board. They have less and less qualified people do to IA's it's scary. Then you have good candidates that apply and don't get in cause ego or red tape nonsense. It's sad I look around and see less and less. Ridiculous

Its cute to think im going to wait for a word from a government entity before I can save myself. Nope.

Thank you for taking the time to make this high-quality, well-constructed and extremely informative documentary. It's hard to believe we're getting quality like this for free on KZbin.

in 2017 I was looking for a new place to live and heard of Paradise CA. I had been through other California fires. When I entered Paradise CA my first thought was that this is a fire trap. All of the entrances and exits were overgrown. Timber and brush grew right up next to nearly every road and it was dense. I could not comprehend what was happening there. It seemed ot me like the place was asleep to fire danger. I had planned to stay 4 days. I stayed one night and left. When you look at the videos, you can see traffic stopped as cars waited for gusts of wind to die down so that they felt like they could drive through the blowing embers. That same year I also drove through other counties where the brush and timber along main roads was cleared. The distinctions were obvious. some counties cleared along main roads. Others did next to nothing. Another part of the "plan" that I see missing still to this day is plans for front loaders to clear obstructions on roads. This was clear in the recent Lahaina fire. If you have a major even such as a wind driven fire in drought conditions, you need people prepared to man front loaders to help keep the roads clear, and you need brush clearance along those roads so that the loader can get around traffic. Just some of my observations and thoughts.... I have looked at a number of towns evacuation plans and to this day I don't see these ideas being put forth. I'm an old man with health issues. someone else is going to have to take this up.

Communication! I was in the camp fire as well and in the 2008 fire. I worked at a major facility and ended up transfering. I now sit on different disaster planning sessions and weigh in on emergency plans and one thing I try to get across everytime is communication. It is so important to have multiple ways of communication and to not put all your weight on one source or one plan. Unfortunately I oftentimes feel that those concerns are pushed aside in place of other planning. Its hard to explain the importance and the affect of not having multiple plans for communication to people who have never had to lose all communication during a disaster. So if you are watching this and you are also a disaster planner please take to heart the communication lessons in this video.

95 % of us did not get an evac warning the reason we knew was the fire it self Also traffic was flowing smoothly only until they put sheriffs cops and fire fighters in interceptions once the were in place we got stuck and backed up and we aske the officer that were closet to us about what going on and they said verbatim we don't have a plan and we don't know what to do and the paradise police officers in my area Montna.dr they we telling people to get out of there cars and walk a whole group of us protested and really were yelling don't tell anyone to get out of there cars your gonna kill way more people if they try to walk out 😢

More than 80 people died. Hundreds of people, if not thousands died. How many properties went unclaimed after the fire?

I’m from no where near that fire but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel awfully bad for these people ! I’m sure some are still struggling and I’m here to say I have forgotten you and still pray and donate !! Some day we will be in a place fire will never reach. Until then…. ❤️🙏💪💯

Citizens - not civilians. Fire and Police and EMS are not in the military.

Money grabbers and murderers all for the love of money which is the covenant oath anyone makes to the beginning of all evil in their lives. You cannot serve Mammon and Tbe Lord God in heaven at the same time. No one can serve to masters for either you you love one and despise the other in actions. Here they murdered to justify the good deed of building back better. No one , it is said, can serve two masters. You are either black or white or hot or cold in the root motive of your behavior and actions.

I have made it through an earthquake we live with ‘em unfortunately

I live in NSW Australia we have already had our first summer fire and the bush is very dry. Were I live we havent had rain for a long time. After the major fires here a few years ago where the rain forest burnt. This year looks just as bad, I agree you have to be ablle to look after yourself and organise yourself. Have a bag with all important papers and things for pets. I believe get out early is the way you save yourself. I hope this year comeing is a better one for you.

For Lahaina, like Paradise, I blame the despots behind WEF right from King Charles to Harry to Oprah and their owned!

If the fire burns too hot in a target area, usually where they want a smart city, if houses turn to white cinder, people/animals to black char, cars melt metal but plastic and blue remain, we have been hit with a DEW from WEF and no one is doing anything about it, now Lahaina, Canada! shameful the unelected with no nation and paid BOD have such black hearts.

This is a great documentary. I just moved to Paradise from New Orleans. I grew up in Sacramento and knew Paradise before the fire. After 7 years of dodging hurricanes, I moved to another place where havoc strikes, lol. I live in a condo complex that survived the fire with the exception of 2 joined units. A burning tree from another property fell onto the roof. The reasons why this complex survived were how it was built and how it was landscaped. Stucco walls, soffit, facia, screened rain gutters, composition roofs, and sparse landscaping. This place was designed to survive. With all the new houses going up throughout Paradise, I hope the builders use these practices to lower the risk for all of us. Rebuild with survivability at the forefront

Looks so much like Hawaii

Could the randomness of pinpointed destruction be caused by Directed energy weapons? Did the cars in the affected areas have melted glass and melted alloy wheels and aluminum engine blocks? Like those in the Maui fires? Take an aerial video of the post Paradise fires and those in Maui for a comparison. It is believed that each were initially caused by power company equipment failures. This I agree with. Were there areas where the fires burned everything on one side of a road, then nothing for 25 yards or more. Burn an entire structure to the concrete slabs yet not burn trees and landscaping 10' away? Isn't this odd? Normal fires, forest or others burn at several hundred degrees. Auto glass melting point of 2500-3000 degrees, and alloy wheels, engine blocks melt at 1800-2000 degrees. Odd. How hot do DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS OPERATE AT? 2500-3500 degrees. Does the military have directed energy weapons (Lazers), yes. Are they able to pinpoint targets and move on to other adjacent areas without affecting those areas? Coincidence? You tell me.

And that Hawaiian tragedy ...another Paradise burnt to ashes , resulting from Very Unusual Strong 'Violent' Winds combined with Fire ... 😔

Folks no matter where they live need to know how to shut off utilities. Gas and electricity. Knowing how to turn the valves off -- can lessen any further interior damage somewhat. Know where water hoses are for your property to soak your roofed structures a.s.a.p. Keep them in repair, so pressure for water is useable AND effective before any local fire personnel are there to help! Become self-reliant, without becoming "too arrogant" in your response to an event as well. Sometimes YOU WILL have to leave, regardless of YOUR attempts to save YOUR residence, auto or other structures ... BE SMART, in your response -- not stupid.

The Mormons have advocated flight/ evacuation bag per person for over 100 years.help others and leave the disaster area . Always keep a full tank of fuel in your car. Know your neighbours, particularly the aged and disabled, have a plan to include them into your evacuation plan

Australians remember our summer 2019. 13 billion hectares of land destroyed, 2 trillion animals perished. The area and losses larger than twice the size of Belgium. This video has a lot of good advice. Not sure if it would have helped our disaster that year, but preparing to leave is essential. Law has been passed people MUST evacuate areas under threat. All people have a government app which the fire service uses to track the fire and get the evacuation word out to the community

I can't guarantee your plan will work or the conditions will match, but i Can guarantee you will Not be prepared without planning.

great job with the video, thanks

Awesome video!! I've been saying this for years!! It's great we have emergency services but... there is and always will be a situation where those emergency services in our area are included in the same scenario we are. Get out, and find a way is as applicable to them as the common citizen. In the end people are not heroes, they just survive and move on, help others survive and move on. That's no heroics. No one Flys into a fire with a cape or walks through flames untouched or moves like lightening like the Hollywood super heros... if that happens a very real God has His hand around a normal ordinary human being. Only God is a hero, only He saves. Sometimes He uses a individual under extraordinary circumstances, but most the time He uses everyone everywhere, in dreadful circumstances, doing sacrificial things, selfless things. That's how it works.

I just started watching this, I live in Montana we just had a train derail. A couple of the cars that fell over were butane cars luckily in this case the butane was not spilled. However the train did spill a bunch of beer cases and cans into the creek. So they have the first thing brought up as a chemical accident and after we just had an accident that could have been a chemical accident yeah

How is Paradise now? I pray 🙏 all of the people who were displaced are coming back? I hope that it is coming back from the Camp Fire. Love from Marysville, California

The US Army has a saying: "No plan survives first contact with the enemy." If it's any comfort to the survivors....you may have lost everything, but you didn't lose YOU. God Bless You all.

I’ve evacuated fire in Yellowstone 1988, and two fires in New Mexico. I’m not excited about it anymore. We live able to grab lock and leave. Fortunately the two local fires have removed fuel. I can grab the things that make life easier and be ready to roll in five minutes. I have water filters, food, tents, backpacks, footwear, clothes for me and my family. I’m not a prepared freak but the usefulness of knowing what to do so the home and family can sit and relax tell it’s time to run is very useful.

I would really like to know how this cannot fly in 35 mph winds... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_firefighting#/media/File:Thunder_Over_The_Empire_Airfest_2012_120519-F-EI671-001.jpg That aircraft is based at California's March AFB by the way (mic drop). If there is any event that can demonstrate how completely and utterly inept government is at solving problems, this is it. They had literally every resource; full fire departments, bulldozers, firefighting aircraft, the ability to commandeer, FEMA, the full resources of the US Department of Agriculture, and still could not stop this fire. This fire could have, and SHOULD have, been stopped immediately; there is no way in hell, as a former firefighter, that you can make me believe that they did not have a single firefighting aircraft that could fly in measly 35 mph wind! This fire was started by reckless arson, and perpetuated by government failure, NOT climate change. Again and again it is failure of government and infrastructure that causes these events. We need to stop simply letting government get bigger and bigger and start making government accountable for these failures. And now I am going to ask the question that NO ONE in the mainstream media has the balls to ask; did the government of California purposely not fight this fire to give politicians an event to blame on Climate Change?

Thank you for putting this together. While I no longer lived in Paradise at the time of the Camp Fire, I grew up there and still had friends there. I was following along as best I could remotely the day of the fire and it wasnt real to me until I saw a video of someone driving down Clark Road on their way out of town and I saw where I went to school and church growing up and it was completely gone. It was at that point that I just started bawling because my childhood town was gone. Thankfully all my friends were able to get out and only lost property.

This information is extremely important and Valuable as a hopefully candidate for the incredible VENTURA TRAINING CENTER , CAMARILLO CA.I really enjoyed this documentary.Thank you.

I lived in thousand oaks ca. the night before the borderline shooting had a occurred. I woke up that day and it was already surreal. I remember I thought I read the news headline wrong. Little did Ik what was happen later. I went to school and since I was so overwhelmed with emotion, I left at lunch. Then when I woke up from a nap after I got home I saw on the news that the woolsey fire had started near simi valley. And then they switched to footage of the camp fire which already had burned down paradise. And I was shocked. Never seen a fire completely destroy a town like that. The woolsey fire eventually burned 30 miles in 6-7 hours which is extremely fast for a fire. I remember my mom woke me up at 2 am saying we need to leave pack a bag I can see the flames topping the mountain from our balcony from our apartment. We left and drove to family near the ocean. And she had a balcony that faced the ocean so you could literally see the entire fire burn towards the ocean through Malibu. It was crazy and surreal couple of days. We had that entire month off school because they had to change all the air filters in our school ac system.

I don’t know if you are still reading these comments, but I just want to thank you for making this documentary. I’m a grad student finishing a capstone project on wildfire response in rural Utah cabin areas and am designing a tabletop exercise scenario based on Paradise. Your video is one of the best resources I’ve come across during the process.

Just saw this documentary, how sad that those 85 people lost their lives. Like what other poster’s mentioned, towns like Paradise need to invest in warning sirens like they have in the Midwest. Sirens make a great backup, should the cell towers go down, like what happened during the camp fire. This disaster, shows how we’re dependent on technology for everything. We can’t always depend on technology for everything.

Always have a plan. You are at the mercy of a wind shift at the wrong time for your entier town to burn to a crisp.