The Ugly Truth to the 2018 Camp Fire

[@jmv37]

I really appreciate you mentioned the other communities like Concow and Yankee Hill. Our communities were forgotten in many of the major news and still some people call this the Paradise Fire, forgetting the other communities that were just as devastated. This video is well done, thank you!

[@TeddyRumble]

Magalia

[@MomentsNature-w8o]

A detailed video, right?

[@stevenschnepp576]

Like Oplontis and Stabiae, destroyed in the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius.

[@FirebourneFred]

I say "destroyed Paradise and surrounding towns" due to how many unknown towns surrounded the area. I can say Sterling City, or Magalia, or DeSabla, or Concow, but since none were mentioned in the news nobody would know what I am talking about. I however never forgot places like Pulga, where Terra Hill almost died, or Yankee Hill, where I visited Golden Feather Adventist, or Lovelock, where we went hiking to enjoy the beautiful scenery from up high. Some of those places didn't burn, but they sure were affected by evacuations and having to escape either through Paradise or the long way through Quincy. Perhaps all the little towns are better off not being in the news because of the potential attraction for mass building...

[@basileusofstupidonia6462]

This was a great documentary on the Camp Fire. It's really sad that incompetence within an electrical company could cause so much devastation and loss of life.

[@Zenergys_Life]

And they are STILL abusing us .. 5 years later...

[@mikeadams42]

This incident wasn’t the first time their incompetence has lead to such devastation. The San Bruno pipeline explosion, the campfire and Dixie fire are just a couple examples. These incidents killed approximately 100 people. Yet the state continues to protect them from any real repercussions.

[@Buasop]

It wasn't incompetence that fuels PG&E, it's greed

[@xamandamarie]

i've been watching your videos on tornadoes for the past few days, and just stumbled on this one. at the time of the camp fire, i lived on the very southeast edge of chico, right at the foothills below paradise. i went to school and everything that morning, but had to rush home midday because we received an evacuation warning. by 10pm that night, the fire was still spreading southwest and i'll never forget the view of it rapidly overtaking the foothills and heading straight for my neighborhood as i finally evacuated. im beyond grateful for the fire crew who took the necessary precautions and made the preparations that kept our lives and houses safe and, very luckily, untouched. sadly one of those we lost in the fire was a close family friend that i grew up with. i appreciate how informative this video was and how you focused on the cause and who was at fault. so many people i knew in town already had issues with pg&e, and highlighting their "mistakes" (negligence) is important. there's still so many issues with them having a monopoly over these services in california and i hope this education on their repeated shortcomings eventually leads to a much needed change. great video, just like the rest of yours ive seen :)

[@TeddyRumble]

PG&E has 150,000 miles of power lines. It's impossible to make them all perfect. People get really, really pissed when it shuts off power on Red Flag days, so they try not to. Y'all expect everyone to be perfect, even in 60 mph winds, when you are not.

[@kryscat5481]

@@TeddyRumble PG&E has a long long history of "deferred maintenance" so that they can divert funds to executive bonuses and shareholders. The blame goes to the fat cats who cut costs and siphon off needed funds, not the overworked employees.

[@shirleyandrews1152]

The fire fatalities are ongoing, still. Lung cancer, chronic asthma & COPD has taken its toll on previous Paradise souls.

[@NatalieScarbrough-v8u]

Yes! What the officials are neglecting to mention to is that there are over 2500 Bank accounts, unclaimed insurance policies, unclaimed property, property and homes who have great insurance coverage have not even had a claim made and no. Communication to the insurance companies from the climate. The preschool that had a teacher and 6 children that died are not mentioned or included in the 86 who they tell us that's all that passed. So much more and proven factual details are not told to the public it makes me sick. The rate cancers people are dying from hasent been told to the public. It's so sad.

[@Bi-polarAyatollah]

100% True. If they counted all the deaths caused indirectly from the fire it would be in the 1000s.

[@shirleyandrews1152]

2023 Dec 30. AND, still we wait for PGE to PAY. For the past 5 yrs a dribble of $$ from them. They still owe me 65% of the agreed settlem’t amount. I have $14.08 in my savings account while trying to rebuild my house. While PGE executives buy new cars & go on expensive vacations. Must be nice😢😡

[@cabledad65]

There were approx $19 billion in claims, across 24 fire attributed to PG&E. PG&E funded the FVT to the amount of only $13 billion. The current estimate is that of the settlement offers the FVT offered, the FVT will only be able to pay them out at a rate of about 65/70%. My big issue is the state avoided any responsibility in the situation, even though they are in charge of the governing body that regulates PG&E. They were also negligent in proper land management on their propeerty by way of not clearing fire hazards on state property, nor enforcing existing laws on private property's.

[@bevror6180]

You missed one huge point, I used to live in paradise and have many family that suffered through that fire. The point you missed is that there is essentially just 1 road to get in and out of the whole town. This road is not big either, mostly 2 lanes wide but at points is only single lanes. Of the thousands of citizens that evacuated traffic caused many to get stuck in the town.

[@Ender0807]

Being a Campfire "Victim" (Don't know a better word for it) myself I have really wanted to learn more on everything that happened on that day. This is a really well made documentary and I learned more due to it!

[@Kyle-ev4fk]

PG&E just passed the cost on to us.

[@facebookb803]

Yes they did. The FVT is a joke!

[@mikeadams42]

We can thank the head of the CPUC, who’s a retired manager of PG&E.

[@MetalBaller83]

PG&E are fucking EVIL

[@TeddyRumble]

So? Where's the money going to come from? Most of the award went to shyster lawyers, you know that, right?

[@ragdump]

Wow THANK YOU , I live 3.5 miles directly above Pulga , I'm the only one who saw what happened that morning watching from Concow Road at the top of Flea Creek Canyon, I got a message 7am about the fire start from a Friend Chris Hail that was a Battalion Chief with Cal Fire. I had to drive to Flea Mountain to see what was happening , it was a shock of a lifetime I was expecting to see some smoke NOT the Atomic Bomb blast from Heroshma. I am impressed with your accuracy so many bullshit stories going around , I stayed for the entire time . the fire eventually got about 500 feet from my place but it took 5 days since it wasn't a raging inferno at that point. I was very lucky also that Cal Fire had a fire base set up just below Flea Mountain about 2 miles from my place and took care of me

[@a_dose_of_wx]

Ending up watching this after reading this in-depth story on the PG-E failures and resulting passing of blame. Doing 1 annual observations, via helicopter, viewing each super structure for 13 seconds a tower. Well done covering this

[@ragdump]

The part that pisses me off the most was a blind man could have seen the wear ! When the hooks and the plate they are hooked into are new you couldn't put your finger between the top of the hook and the plate . When they got that worn there were about 2 inches of space. The Helicopters have Hi-def cameras and they also used Drones and people with Binoculars and it just wasn't hard to see

[@TeddyRumble]

They have 150,000 miles of powerlines. There are not enough linemen in the USA to personally inspect all of it. You forget, winds were hurricane force that day, and Paradise never implemented the recommendations from the county years earlier.

[@Snowstar837]

This is incredibly well-made, and I learned a lot from it! Thank you!

[@Dantezonzo]

For a small channel This was actually a pretty good video wow 😮

[@junefirst]

I appreciate it! Spread the word ;)

[@mikeadams42]

PG&E has neglected all of their equipment for decades. Even after all of their incidents, they still aren’t doing much to improve their safety. Most of their hydro plants still have equipment that’s almost 100 years old.

[@TeddyRumble]

Are you perfect? No. Neither is PG&E.

[@stephanielloyd4053]

Ive watched so many wildfire documentaries and hot shot videos, I find it fascinating and terrifying. I heard at its most the fire consumed a football field a SECOND!

[@ragdump]

Yes and even a little more 80 football fields a minute and I was there watching

[@stephanielloyd4053]

@@ragdump Oh no! Really? That's just so vast and scary it's hard to imagine it!

[@ragdump]

I was standing just above Pulga watching it @@stephanielloyd4053

[@doug7260]

I just watched you report on the Camp fire, wow.. Nice work..! I never knew they had winds like that up in their mountains. the fire destroyed so much and, so much tragedy for the people in the areas. My prayers and Condolences. I live in the oak fire region. California. Itll either, burn or sink. Thanks for your video.

[@williamhiles7404]

At the time of the fire the Caribou transmission line was 117 years old. Pacific Graft & Extortion is the pits. Ruined my life, lungs, and a nice town. And their 'supposed' undergrounding of lines has already been exposed as mere window dressing. Yep, some things never change. I would never move back. The 'settlement' is a slap in the face, cooked up by PG&E, the CPUC, and Gov. Newscum. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹

[@MKPrive]

Sadly they now pass modernization costs onto the communities they ravaged with their own negligence. Our electric bills here have soared in the wake of this judgment. Some things just shouldn’t be for profit or if so, must have stricter oversight. Self regulation doesn’t work.

[@Zenergys_Life]

They are crazy!! Have you seen the commercials now praising themselves for the improvements!! I mean talk about rubbing It in our faces!!

[@TeddyRumble]

Move to the city

[@soupwifey]

When my family lived in Orange CA. There was a wildfire that stopped 2 miles from their neighborhood. They had evacuated with their dogs. They were so glad that their neighborhood was spared by the fire being extinguished just 2 miles up a dried up grassy hill. They showed me. I saw the black grass and the dried grass that looked like straw.

[@colin7244]

I have a bad feeling about mid to late October because the gfs is showing a low pressure moving in which could cause some fires to grow out of control. I just hope that we dont have the same situation as the camp fire this year

[@calvinhobbes6646]

Keep making your videos my dude. They are so good. Channels (who I won’t name) with many tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of followers pump out stuff that is far worse than yours.

[@junefirst]

Thank you! I really appreciate it!

[@fayecox9401]

Hello from uk this was spot on and very imformative definitely subscribing to your channel

[@julieb6835]

Well done This November will be six years since we lost everything … the greatest loss is not being close to family who live in Chico and the sense of community we had there and have not found since … we were forced out of the area due to lack of affordable housing. We left the state and even if we wanted to we could not go back because of the ensuing financial impossibility to live there. Crime has increased exponentially as has the influx of professional transients. Friends who chose to stay and rebuild are having difficulty finding property insurance coverage. PG&E rates are now based on your gross income. There is a lot of hype about the town of Paradise rebuild process … that would be a good follow-up investigation if you talk to real people rather than the newbies who brought their Bay Area attitudes to the area. Also, there are many of us whose health has declined since then. Marriages didn’t survive the stress - so many people split up.

[@turdfurgason8476]

Line failure?!😂 PG&E sent a pulse on PURPOSE.😂

[@carlafreeman6680]

was PG&E also involved in the contaminated groundwater issue in the movie and true story "Erin Brockovitch" ?

[@whoever6458]

I had some friends who were on that fire. Crazy stuff! What has become normal in this country is for companies to do no maintenance at all because they calculate that it will be cheaper to pay for liability if/when something happens than it is to properly maintain things and prevent disasters. Sadly, no amount of money can replace a human life. We ought to make this practice illegal with stiff penalties because you see this all the time. The train derailment in East Palestine is another example of a company putting profits before people.

[@ColleenScatena69]

The fire that keeps on giving 5 years later. We lost everything still have a hard time believing this happened

[@kainhall]

look up the "lodgepole complex" in NE montana...2017 300,000 acres iirc . just black from horizon to horizon lightning caused

[@melodyivey8066]

There's still people who haven't gotten anything from PG&E

[@grapeshot]

This destruction reminds me of the photographs of scene from Black Saturday wildfires in Australia..

[@soupwifey]

All my life. There's been wildfires every day somewhere in the world. It makes me sad. I'm just glad that I live in a concrete jungle. AKA Downtown Dallas.

[@TeddyRumble]

Coffey park suburb in Santa Rosa burned to the ground, also in a concrete jungle.

[@JAFO.]

Where is the location of the gorgeous cedars at 4:17?

[@jimmyjohnson1452]

Started about 5 miles from me.100 mph gusts that morning.

[@junefirst]

Woah! That would be very unsettling.

[@jimmyjohnson1452]

@@junefirst luckily I left for ohio the morning before, the 7th

[@Paul-mu9oz]

here we go again

[@melodyivey8066]

PG&E got away with murder

[@mikeadams42]

They always have and always will. They weren’t held accountable for the San Bruno pipeline explosion either

[@TeddyRumble]

Riiight. You are perfect, aren't you.

[@tonysmario817]

what's 'ugly' is simply recounting the official story with zero insight into the 'never before seen' anomalies associated with these 'wild fires' that suddenly incinerate towns, but leave most of the trees alone. Fires that melt cars, but not plastic trash cans, for instance. After the string of unlikely 'forest fires' that now turn homes to powder, away from the untouched forest, such as in Lahaina, any fool can see that the 'fires' are a cover for the microwave tech used to destroy the towns...it doesn't take much research to find the patents for this technology. why isn't anyone asking, 'what are they doing with these patents'...besides turning the twin towers to dust? or did you forget about that?

[@NK-gamer88]

This is a good video, how is it only 9k views?😂

[@PAVEL-JAKL]

Here after LA fires..🔥

[@FirebourneFred]

You failed to mention the gross negligence of the California government, who was given hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up, to deal with the dead and dying trees, and the support they show to America hating Sierra Club, who's motto is "save a tree, kill yourself". The Sierra Club is a big reason California did not maintain the trees and therefore a major cause of the fire. Even before 2018 we had desperate levels of drought, causing many trees to die. However, to remove trees from your own property it costs $1k or requires you to have a contractor license and pay $10k for a permit to remove said trees. Also, California government played dictatorship to PG&E and told them when they can and can't do things. So ultimately it is 100% the California government's fault. I live in a state where drought is much worse, and they get far less money, and they maintain the forests just fine so don't even try to tell me that's the reason.

[@mamscasunbuds2866]

Paradise was a designed disaster. In fact all the actuaries from the insurance industries warned them of this.

[@johnpanko9118]

You flunked out of Drama class didn't you

[@KatyWantsToGo]

Yeah, you need to look harder, try harder, something because you missed the mark…

[@mikeadams42]

What exactly was missed??? Was it that one of my best friends was in the power plant that morning, to shut the power down. Then at the last minute told to stop???

[@KatyWantsToGo]

34 seconds in and the video is already suspect… I’d be more convinced if you showed the helicopters dumping fire bombs….that’s partially why it started

[@Buasop]

@@KatyWantsToGo You're in a cult of mental pygmies

[@monicaramirez5293]

There was nothing left of the elderly people of Paradise to identify not even any teeth

[@monicaramirez5293]

Wildfires don't cremate humans Humans do

[@mar.a842]

The cremation process generally occurs around 1,400 - 1,600℉, and extreme wildfires can have flame temperatures exceeding 2,000℉. So, yes, wildfires can absolutely cremate humans.

[@mamscasunbuds2866]

Paradise was a designed disaster. In fact all the actuaries from the insurance industries warned them of this.