Fire Trucks Responding to Santa Cruz County's Biggest Wildfire in Decades

Fire Trucks from several agencies responding to the biggest wildfire to strike Santa Cruz County in decades. The fire has burned over 78,000 acres, destroyed at least 163 structures, and killed at least one person just days after ignition. The fire was caused by a number of lightning strikes, and is named the CZU Lightning Complex Fire.
A full length video with coverage of the entire fire will be public in the coming days.
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[@UnknownUser-zt2rc]

0:38 This guy in the Cowboy hat needs a shout-out for assisting first responders by directing traffic, Kudos to this guy

[@CaliforniaCapitalRefuse]

legend

[@taofledermaus]

Great night time shots! Don't know if the cowboy hat guy was helping or just getting in the way. lol

[@Openwound408]

Fancy seeing you here

[@soccerboy22100]

thats 2 in the afternoon..a lot of smoke.

[@MorganMcGinnis]

TAOFLEDERMAUS Holy Crap!!!! HEy!!!!!!!!!! LOVE your Channel!! This is my local! :) and Matthew, this was not 2pm..... this was at night,

[@soccerboy22100]

@@MorganMcGinnis lol

[@gulayyesilyurt5358]

@@Openwound408 qggmvhvnj

[@michaelpalmer9169]

Who’s the cowboy directing traffic? 😂

[@joeblazo6412]

Cluetus

[@1luhnick]

IKR 😂

[@westcoast7514]

Straight up 😆

[@HighOnLife1985]

Doing his civic duty.

[@ajbaumgart4774]

Michael palmer i was getting ready to ask the same question kinda odd a civilian would guide traffic instead of policemen or anther fire fighter weird

[@code3socal83]

damn that first strike team came in loud and proud, sweet vid man.

[@natashabinford6536]

Wow I love that first strike team came over that road

[@stevenreid3190]

Lived in Scotts Valley my whole life, and seeing this is absolutely chilling. This will go down in infamy, but will bring us all closer together in these little mountain towns we live in.

[@vinnievierra6320]

Thank you for this!!! Amazing responses by these heroes!

[@BrandonKipp]

Yeah it’s great to know that they are always here when we need them!

[@drhambone1598]

Great capture Shout out to santa cruz's first responders

[@natashabinford6536]

Shout out to the fire trucks in the firefighters

[@ericfisher1503]

I live in this war zone. The fire came within 1500 feet of my home. The tireless efforts of these brave heroes, especially our local volunteer departments, prevented our whole valley from being engulfed in flames. From the firefighters I talked to, they said they had never seen anything like this, they were doing all they could just to save structures while the fire swept on by. Sadly over 900 homes lost and counting, we are a close knit community so this was a very special fire fight for the valley departments, they were doing all they could to save the memories of friends and family. They came with all they had, the state fell short in that the resources were spread so thin. Sadly much of the beautiful wooded hillsides are chard and so many structures lay in ash. Kudos to all that participated, wish I could have been along side to help fight this beast. Right now off in the distance the helicopters continue to fly, the fight goes on.

[@natashabinford6536]

Lol

[@ffandrewd2986]

@@natashabinford6536 wow. Your really gonna laugh at that? I don’t really like people, but *FUCK YOU* in particular

[@viperq]

I work at the animal shelter in SMC, we're taking in a lot of animals.

[@kayceekeith1997]

NICE!!! This is going into my Favorite Firetrucks folder!!

[@nicholasdiehl7368]

You know it's real authentic when the dozer is brought in

[@sportsshorts398]

Love the thumbnail and some great clean night shots!

[@williamlacombe3501]

It's interesting seeing a volunteer department in CA. Never knew they had volunteers over there.

[@MorganMcGinnis]

All of the SLV Fire Departments are Volunteer.........

[@leytone.4809]

@@MorganMcGinnis Yup

[@hosedragger-204]

~92% of fire departments in the US are volunteer. Meanwhile here in Vermont, that number is 98% of departments

[@katiehorton5507]

remind me of our fire last year gives me chills hearing sirens still that is when the fire was coming towards town and evacuation was taking place. good video the guy in hat is most likely apart of the fire dept. or he's a CERT member helping with evacuations too.

[@LiamPattisonPhotography]

Holy shit, wicked air horns on that first clip. Love the random cowboy putting in work, lol!

[@SuperDuckman24]

2:24 damn the fact that you can see the glow of the fire 🔥 that’s gotta be scary 😧

[@mikesmith-pj2fy]

Santa Cruz and Scotts valley are my backyard highway 9 and 17 I'm retired firefighter from Saratoga keep strong and continues to kick ass

[@lanceryourbuddy2255]

Thanks for the video, and Thanks to all the first responders! Hope yall get it under control!

[@MD21037]

Strike Teams. They do have some nice fire equipment in California; I give em' that.

[@andrewcr8322]

These fires are crazy!

[@anthonyg13emergencyvideos]

awesome catches.

[@jm7488]

This gives me flashbacks of the Carr Fire

[@mastercfromhalo3]

So why was Brett Michaels directing traffic in most of the video???

[@EvanDowell1213]

The man in the cowboy hat is a community helper, which includes doing what you just saw.

[@thesunsetreptiles]

How big was this fire

[@stevenreid3190]

80,000+ acres in heavy timber forests.

[@animalchannelandmore8465]

This is so sad

[@sanddabz5635]

who's the duffus directing traffic?

[@maxhallman1036]

Thats Kevin

[@sanddabz5635]

@@maxhallman1036 is that like a Karen thing?

[@maxhallman1036]

@@sanddabz5635 no he just helps around town

[@sanddabz5635]

@@maxhallman1036 ok, thanks!

[@christiangonzalez7081]

Fire works estoy video Vida si

[@ShariahThomas]

People keep being mean to me what should I do

[@lizgordon9042]

Stay safe if i could afford to come there and help i would

[@catwithabat7163]

It looks like a parade almost...

[@NCCEVANS]

The traffic control cowboy 🤠 lol

[@Monrovia1]

The rig at 00"56 looks like it was piggy backed off an OES Order.

[@maxhallman1036]

Its a HME WUI rig which oes uses

[@jole3799]

I can help you guys with my Batman cape

[@kevinkapen2096]

Traffic cowboy

[@johndoll1511]

Maybe it is time to rethink California's eco friendly land management approach. Climate change is not the culprit. Radical tree huggers are.

[@StofleTheBadger]

Apparently trees are more important than human life.

[@user-uj5zc6vx2k]

🎭

[@thesunsetreptiles]

San Diego is quite all the action is up north I live in a boring ass city

[@MartinezBros805]

Get ready for this weekend, you about to get ROASTED! Sunday and Monday BBQ Baby in SD. It's about to get real for you down there

[@cihanmert1893]

Tmm 12aer0y7

[@bryce6744]

That is an insane number of trucks arriving in one place. I've been both an urban and rural volunteer fire fighter in Australia for 8 years. I responded to one of the Black Saturday fires (In the state of Victoria) we had. Even we didn't see that many trucks arrive all at once. Incredible.

[@Adelaide_Transit]

Damn, Black Saturday was not a nice event. I remember watching about it on the television in SA, you guys in the CFA did amazing.

[@bryce6744]

@@Adelaide_Transit thanks mate yeah words fail to describe that day.. Sadly, i think those kind of weather conditions are going to be more common.

[@natashabinford6536]

Damn

[@SnowTopHusky]

Reminds me of when a local city near me had there town square catch fire. They dispatched 30 fire departments some over 30 miles away and from the neighboring state. All you heard was sirens roaring from every direction as lines of fire engines came roaring into the city from both the west south and east sides

[@celticsprods]

Thanks to the cowboy in the beginning for stopping traffic

[@ratclit]

glad to see there's not much smoke in Boulder creek

[@hawky225]

Got the whole gang from the Village People in that intersection. Cop, cowboy, construction worker...

[@jimratliff2753]

This is pretty tough to watch. I just lived two blocks behind the Boulder Creek fire station for years and years as a kid and went to high school in Felton. Hate to see what is happening there.

[@Bobs-bd3yo]

Like the dude with the cut sleaves directing traffic. Amazing response good capture.

[@arturomattal.7407]

Mack CH Raw Hide still kicking with dozer

[@johnloy6249]

Looks like we got us a convoy!🚒

[@dalegribble4281]

Texas Rangers arrived in Cali to help herd cars.

[@Kilrinstinct1]

Would love to come out there and help out. Don’t see much brush fires out here in NY.

[@jimmyboe2753]

Awesome recording bud 👌👍👏

[@emergencyresponsevideosand4423]

1:30 stop doing the parade there's a brush fire

[@Josephchristensen2024]

The guy in the cowboy hat is a true heri for directing the traffic before the police came on seen

[@rosalynarredondo7878]

thank u for that u r doing for us we appreciated all that u have dun for us in this community and with this fire and plz be safe out there in the fire u guys are awesome and rock

[@darrellswiger6335]

God be with all are fire fighters❤

[@BumberenzoTheFireEngine]

1:15 I love that engine

[@natashabinford6536]

What engine?

[@BumberenzoTheFireEngine]

@@natashabinford6536 Check the timestamp.

[@natashabinford6536]

OMG a wildfire?

[@alexperez-hc9wj]

Ride em cowboy!

[@shawnstaton941]

I bet they got there hands full now..

[@carolynghavam6079]

Dominions, Virtues and Angels, speed recovery for those who have lost their livelihood. B/ THE 🦋

[@futurecorpse7330]

We had a bad wildfire season in wnc back in 2016 we don’t even have a fire season but we had multiple t seemed like every week a new one started we had alot of guys come in from out west and can’t thank them enough not saying we couldn’t have put them out ourselves but we greatly appreciated their assistance and expertise but that year hearing sirens was always worrying. We had 2 fires within about 15 miles of our neighborhood on each side which wasn’t concerning at the time but I live on an embankment and I was woken up by a ton of sirens and my heart sank and when I went outside there was 20 fire trucks parked right out front we had a fire start less than a mile from my house luckily they put it out not long after it had started

[@Interstate107]

Awesome

[@jeremymanuel230]

Do you have any of the Texas crews that are out there?

[@jacobkubly1361]

Bless those firefighters and first responders. Thank God they are going get some rain the next few weeks and some cool weather.

[@asandalali8233]

Cool😂 but i fill sorry for those who are in the fire and one day I wish to be a firefighter

[@jamesmhango2619]

Insurance companies flipping the coins.

[@jorgediaz4677]

Como no pagar para tener un tono de llamada

[@cartman4885]

WOW what a amazing video you stuff is always great stay safe........

[@schmegle1]

Really with the fcking air horns?