The Deadliest Wildfire In California History

California's largest utility company, Pacific Gas & Electric, filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday after facing mounting scrutiny for its role in November's Camp Fire.
While climate change is partially to blame for California's deadliest fire, most residents of Paradise, California almost immediately pointed the finger at the largest utility company in the state. The investigation into what caused the Camp Fire is still ongoing, but PG&E cited “actual and potential liabilities” in its decision to file for bankruptcy.
VICE News was in Paradise immediately after the Camp Fire to meet residents and learn how California can survive a future of deadlier fires.
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  • @VICENews
    @VICENews5 жыл бұрын

    “We know, as a matter of fire science, that high winds and dry weather are some of the most dangerous conditions,” said John Fiske, a lawyer representing residents, cities, and counties against PG&E in multiple wildfires, including the Camp Fire. WATCH NEXT: The Last Days of Death Row Inmate Scott Dozier - bit.ly/2FASiJb

  • @yocinfluenced9256

    @yocinfluenced9256

    5 жыл бұрын

    When California fines pg&e the California energy commission lets them raise there rates and we end up paying there fines for them

  • @janbadinski7126

    @janbadinski7126

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@yocinfluenced9256 Customers were told in the 70s and 80s that nuclear power plants would make rates cheaper. It's the line they fed us but after Diablo Canyon. The rates went up to supposedly to pay for the facility. Then the rates went up again. They have never lowered rates. This is what happens when PUC is too closely affiliated with a utility company. They rip everyone off then wonder why their reputation is too accurate for them. They've know there was a problem for decades with their power lines and did nothing. Now people are dying because of their negligence and they want to get out of paying for lawsuits. California's utilities need to be split, they are a monopoly.

  • @evoazx2660

    @evoazx2660

    5 жыл бұрын

    Why don't you follow a shot crew or a jump crew Vice? You guys seem to follow only contract and municiple crews. Pease quit reporting on fire.

  • @janbadinski7126

    @janbadinski7126

    5 жыл бұрын

    What a shame they won't be paying the fines and such. It isn't like they don't have the money.

  • @rickyracks8848

    @rickyracks8848

    5 жыл бұрын

    also no rain,

  • @Roman-uu3gz
    @Roman-uu3gz5 жыл бұрын

    Im from Chico and I can tell you that it felt like the apocalypse, The sky was blood red and you couldn't see more than 5 feet in front you you. Many people I know lost everything. The environment is trying to tell us something, but we refuse to listen....

  • @Lrix

    @Lrix

    5 жыл бұрын

    So sorry you had to experience something like that. I know it may not mean much but my thoughts are with you guys.

  • @maggiee639

    @maggiee639

    5 жыл бұрын

    Watching the footage on the news was shocking. I’m sorry you had to go through that.

  • @lolzormachine

    @lolzormachine

    5 жыл бұрын

    Same here. I remember days later, the air pollution was so bad at some instances that it broke 900 on the air quality index. That's breaking the scale. Societies really do need to radically restructure themselves to mitigate and adapt to climate change and prepare for disasters like these. If you're reading this, know your potential threats of disaster, prepare for them, have a couple plans, and make a go-bag.

  • @grantdubridge7995

    @grantdubridge7995

    5 жыл бұрын

    The environment told you nothing. There have always been forest fires with most of them starting from lightning. Lightning is the environment. Forest fire areas go back to life in less then a year with all new ferns and trees growing, that's the environment. Buy good for insurance.

  • @markmnorcal

    @markmnorcal

    5 жыл бұрын

    That Thursday morning was cold and dark here in Chico. Fire came within a mile from me.

  • @LoveEquestria4evet
    @LoveEquestria4evet4 жыл бұрын

    And just today PG&E being investigated AGAIN, for the newest fire.

  • @shadowspire

    @shadowspire

    4 жыл бұрын

    yes and unfortunately we will foot the bill once more, just like we did the last. PG&E really has to be held accountable, they should be forced to adopt the Tech system our county utility SDG&E(which is a PG&E subsidiary) has developed, it is a mix of modernization of power lines by burrying them, 24/7 monitoring for faulty lines(above ground), weather watch in areas deemed potential fire hazard. As well a grid that can be configured to cut power while not affecting less risky areas. Great example is last Friday, in Rancho Santa Fe and surrounding areas was cut but not my city, the outage went around us while crews were on high alert ready to deploy. If SDG&E can do it on a smaller budget, there is no reason PG&E cant either

  • @reversecourse

    @reversecourse

    4 жыл бұрын

    What happened to the homeowner's responsibility of having a defensible space around their house?

  • @shadowspire

    @shadowspire

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@reversecourse there's only so much a homeowner can do. I'm not sure if you're in Cali or not but the main reason that the Camp fire was so deadly was not because people did not have a defensible space around their home, most people did. Granted some may not have but happened was the constant wind that was fueling the flame was also throwing embers all over the place. The city i live in was not affect too much by the fires last year but i got to see the after math in the neighboring city last year even though the fire was not as big it managed to destroy some homes about 30mins from my house, on the way to my job i was able to see how the fire simply spread because of the embers that flew over empty plots of land that had almost no brush and destroy a couple homes. It's easy to say things such as what you have stated it's another to actually live them

  • @johnny4aces410

    @johnny4aces410

    4 жыл бұрын

    These fires are occurring with frightening frequency. The unprecedented number of fires appears to coincide with leftists taking over CA. When CA was a Republican state there never was so many fires. I doubt if this is a coincidence.

  • @shadowspire

    @shadowspire

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@johnny4aces410 Normally I'd reply with facts but You can't fix Ignorance in most. So run along with your tin foil hat.

  • @kingsamoanOG
    @kingsamoanOG5 жыл бұрын

    My good buddy works for pg&e doing gas lines and he told me that they have tons and tons of faulty shit and when its brought to their attention they tell the workers it's not in the budget and they will do it later. He said some of the lines are from the 1930s and they simply refuse to fix it until it's to late.

  • @jimgritty7064

    @jimgritty7064

    5 жыл бұрын

    Wow.

  • @bgroks1

    @bgroks1

    5 жыл бұрын

    Organic OG FarmzZ Unfortunately it’s natural that utility companies have lots of debt, the cost to upgrade the lines while also taking the loss of people not being able to pay for the power they don’t receive, and then the fines they owe, so either they accumulate more debt, or take a large loss and possibly fail to make a debt payment. PGE estimated the time to replace the lines and clean up brush is a few years.. I believe it was 5 years that they said.They are testing controlled blackouts to wild fire prone areas like a San Diego company has been doing.. but then they run into the issue of people only having internet based phones that go out when the power does.. so 911 won’t work, and also people who need medical devices to live. Unfortunately, there is no simple quick fix.

  • @Austin-do8se

    @Austin-do8se

    5 жыл бұрын

    Jeez. That's horrible!

  • @lynnwood7205

    @lynnwood7205

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Markus Allen Operate to failure. Divert monies directly given by the State of California for the maintenance of brush and timber clearance along power lines to executive bonuses and stock dividends Decide not to cut power in order not to be required to pay food spoilage claims.

  • @AscheDjidoi

    @AscheDjidoi

    5 жыл бұрын

    The only thing they care to protect is their administration fees.

  • @michaelvalencia7234
    @michaelvalencia72344 жыл бұрын

    To everyone who lost everything I’m sorry I was one of the many hot shot crews on scene and I can tell you my crew tried our ass off to stop it at the canyon.. it spotted so much over our backs that we couldn’t do anything I am so so sorry...

  • @shoneast6880

    @shoneast6880

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cant stop Gods judgment.

  • @FaithandNova

    @FaithandNova

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@shoneast6880 many don't understand that. If God says there's nothing none of us can do 😔

  • @michaelvalencia7234

    @michaelvalencia7234

    4 жыл бұрын

    Shon East yeah just sucked we couldn’t hold our lines at all literally spotted over us the whole time

  • @kylemontano228

    @kylemontano228

    4 жыл бұрын

    michael valencia you did your best, and that’s all that matters. Thank you to you and all other hotshots

  • @johnettastevens4906

    @johnettastevens4906

    4 жыл бұрын

    Look to the back of your bible my friends, I fear we are closer to the end than we think.

  • @builtbypi2276
    @builtbypi22765 жыл бұрын

    The transition from 6:50-6:54 is incredible

  • @HansWurst-xs2ru

    @HansWurst-xs2ru

    5 жыл бұрын

    unbelivable. Like from night to day

  • @xxitsmeboi_stxckxx8354

    @xxitsmeboi_stxckxx8354

    5 жыл бұрын

    yea..

  • @Brian_Moser1118

    @Brian_Moser1118

    5 жыл бұрын

    give that editor a raise !

  • @markuse3472

    @markuse3472

    5 жыл бұрын

    That seems to have been edited to suit her words.

  • @100consciouseternallightho6

    @100consciouseternallightho6

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Markus Allen Sounds like to me you are having a good laugh. Are you smoking that weed?

  • @WeylandLabs
    @WeylandLabs5 жыл бұрын

    Rest In Peace for the good folks of Paradise that didn't make it. My heart goes out to the families of the victims. God Bless ❤

  • @markoaurelius2046

    @markoaurelius2046

    5 жыл бұрын

    What was it that they were making?

  • @jezdzicnaczerwonodostacgow7756

    @jezdzicnaczerwonodostacgow7756

    4 жыл бұрын

    Markus Allen chill he was just making a statement and showing gratitude, just accept that...

  • @obadiahscave

    @obadiahscave

    4 жыл бұрын

    Socialism: accepting immigrants and giving them free food and money, rich are providing you with wages that are insufficient, the government pushing an ideology that is sinking you.. you love socialism, you praised socialism, now you reap the rewards of socialism...

  • @hollybaker3918
    @hollybaker39183 жыл бұрын

    This was the worst day of my life! I lost everything including my cat.... I'm still in Paradise but living in a RV because I can't afford a place to live... I have lived in Paradise for 31 years. It will never be the same... Right now we are in between 2 fires. It's absolutely terrifying...

  • @vhangzpaquiabas8830

    @vhangzpaquiabas8830

    3 жыл бұрын

    So sorry to hear that 💔🥺

  • @Heavenclone
    @Heavenclone3 жыл бұрын

    This was just the beginning. Here we are in September 2020 and California is burning even worse. Stay Safe.

  • @samahita-vca

    @samahita-vca

    3 жыл бұрын

    I honestly thought that it was made recently. I just noticed that it was made over a year ago from the comment section. Dear God, how are these people and more doing with the worse fire this year? My heart goes for those affected by this worst of time.

  • @colonelbeatson6027

    @colonelbeatson6027

    3 жыл бұрын

    think before you speak ok us australians are here you know.

  • @ericunderwood1482

    @ericunderwood1482

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@colonelbeatson6027 YEAH....I remember watching Australia and crying....damn fires jumped the Pacific.... Hey my Dad was over there in WWII ... Paupa and Bloody Buna Sanananda... First big shipment of American GIs to the Pacific Theaters.... PFC Eugene H Dog Underwood 32d 126th Combat Infantry Regiment and 2d Engineer Special Brigade Amphibious 592d Boat and Shore Regiment He had a sweetie in Rockhampton...

  • @Darkdevil1584

    @Darkdevil1584

    3 жыл бұрын

    this year gonna be worse because theres no hotshots

  • @genesiss420

    @genesiss420

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Darkdevil1584 and no water in the lakes

  • @vwlover4677
    @vwlover46775 жыл бұрын

    I lost everything but the underwear that me and wife ran out of the house in. All my childhood pics/toys everything gone in 45min. This is horrible!

  • @ffejkk37

    @ffejkk37

    5 жыл бұрын

    Did the GTI make it?

  • @vwlover4677

    @vwlover4677

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ffejkk37 yes! Thankfully it is a manual and my driveway is on a slant. So I was able to get it out of harms way.

  • @scottp4063

    @scottp4063

    5 жыл бұрын

    lovelover Volkswagen sucks

  • @scottp4063

    @scottp4063

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Spadookie L.A! Wahahhas we smoked L.A. In basketball , baseball and now football . Boston baby city of champions. L.A. city of fair weather fans

  • @markzuckerburg5220

    @markzuckerburg5220

    5 жыл бұрын

    Scott Porter your mom sucks

  • @owenbrown5763
    @owenbrown57635 жыл бұрын

    My house burnt down in Paradise. Times have been though but we will get through it.

  • @Dreadz530

    @Dreadz530

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mine too brother and I work for a tree service so I am literally working in this shit for 8 -10 hours a day. Every day I come home covered in black from the burnt and it's sad. I literally can spin a circle and as far as the eye can see it looks like a nuclear bomb wiped everything out. I get lost all the time trying to get to jobs because there are no land marks anymore and every road looks the same. I'm still waiting for the scene in this movie to end and them to clean everything.

  • @tatertots3888

    @tatertots3888

    5 жыл бұрын

    May God bless you two.

  • @danlaroche6025

    @danlaroche6025

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm fixing to start working up there, doing Phase 3 cleanup. Butte County still needs help.

  • @TheNimshew

    @TheNimshew

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mine did too. Though,I’m not sure my town will survive. One tenth the population in the future won’t support the business we had. No hospital, fewer schools,services. I’m questioning why even be a town anymore. It really doesn’t make sense.

  • @danlaroche6025

    @danlaroche6025

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not yet. Waiting to take certification courses for Hazmat and OSHA. I just want to get started, so at least the misery isn't so visable. It will be hard to contain hazardous materials with all the rain.

  • @mashamitchell9574
    @mashamitchell95745 жыл бұрын

    I feel bad for the pets that were left behind with no chance of escaping.

  • @lolzormachine

    @lolzormachine

    5 жыл бұрын

    There's so many unclaimed pets out here.

  • @nathanb5994

    @nathanb5994

    5 жыл бұрын

    Also all the dead children , but y'kno poor whiskers..

  • @MannyRoad

    @MannyRoad

    5 жыл бұрын

    Masha Mitchell what about the actual humans that died? Stop caring about animals and get your priorities straight

  • @lolzormachine

    @lolzormachine

    5 жыл бұрын

    And this is why the planet is dying@@MannyRoad

  • @adamfidelio1213

    @adamfidelio1213

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@MannyRoad Stop comparing everything you morons. @Masha mitchell felt bad for the pets that were left behind

  • @eddysaidtht
    @eddysaidtht4 жыл бұрын

    Watching this for the second time almost a year later and this shit is still sad asf.

  • @CormacHolland

    @CormacHolland

    4 жыл бұрын

    eddysaidtht me too. What’s crazy is that after the cameras stop rolling, people are still forced into homelessness from this fire. And more fires this week.

  • @Billyboy4209
    @Billyboy42095 жыл бұрын

    I have been doing work up there and the pictures and videos don’t do it justice. When you go through town in the 1st days of the cleanup and You see all the abandoned cars on the roads that clearly the people had to run for their live from, you can’t help but break down in tears...

  • @TheNimshew

    @TheNimshew

    5 жыл бұрын

    At least 14,000 burnt vehicles. How many trees have to come down? 100,000+? 15 million cubic feet of hazardous waste. 200 to 250 tons of material per footprint! They haven’t started phase two yet. When they do, it’ll destroy the roads. One thousand truckloads a day? Sure. They’re delusional, or liars.

  • @Billyboy4209

    @Billyboy4209

    5 жыл бұрын

    Markus Allen hahaha,troll much? Nice try sweetheart 😘🖕🏻💯

  • @markoaurelius2046

    @markoaurelius2046

    5 жыл бұрын

    How could it do justice? Justice doesn't exist anymore. Had it still been in existence, you would be in jail too. But you aren't. "Nuf" said! IF you can't dazzle 'em with brains...you can always dazzle 'em with your bullshit!

  • @karenengelhardt1610
    @karenengelhardt16104 жыл бұрын

    Props to all the firefighters that came from southern cal, oregon and washington to help with this. I lived here for many years and will never be back. Can't.

  • @colonelbeatson6027

    @colonelbeatson6027

    3 жыл бұрын

    think before you speak ok us australians are here you know.

  • @maliaminer3324
    @maliaminer33244 жыл бұрын

    But the hope didn’t disappear. The high school was fixed up and the 2019 graduates got to graduate on their field and PG&E did in fact file for bankruptcy

  • @rockss2422
    @rockss24225 жыл бұрын

    The world is just depressing

  • @trifectat8694

    @trifectat8694

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think its wonderful world, its all in the mind some people live in bliss in shit conditions and some people are miserable living lavish.

  • @rockss2422

    @rockss2422

    5 жыл бұрын

    It’s my opinion

  • @doloresperez2554

    @doloresperez2554

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@trifectat8694 ok, trump whatever you say

  • @alexanderbecker6294

    @alexanderbecker6294

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@doloresperez2554 why are you so anti trump

  • @gone7777

    @gone7777

    5 жыл бұрын

    Direct. Direct. Direct Energy Weapons like on purpose

  • @AndTecks
    @AndTecks5 жыл бұрын

    a lot of my family lost everything. Its incredibly sad. My father did an interview for the news and fortunately got a lot of support. He stayed through the fire to help save his horse and dogs.

  • @lottebussink4844
    @lottebussink48445 жыл бұрын

    Imagine all the animals that died or people where on a vacation and no one took their animals... im so sad for all the people who died because of this.😭

  • @Spike.SpiegeI
    @Spike.SpiegeI5 жыл бұрын

    great coverage by VICE. I hadn't seen other stories showing the impact like this. It's devastating to see...

  • @markoaurelius2046

    @markoaurelius2046

    5 жыл бұрын

    Great lies too! Can I lick the bowl before it's poured into the pan?

  • @markoaurelius2046

    @markoaurelius2046

    5 жыл бұрын

    So you avoid checking for any lies of deception from media...you just go by the impact level of the story. If it's devastating to see, why did you look? Or did you peek through the spaces in your fingers and let on like you didnt see it? I know...Vice would never lie now would they? Hee heee haaa haa hee hee haa aahaaa haaaaa haaaaa

  • @Darkdevil1584

    @Darkdevil1584

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@markoaurelius2046 lol as a wild land firefighter ask me anything bruh. ill be glad to clarify anything for you:X

  • @lyellgurski483

    @lyellgurski483

    2 жыл бұрын

    If you want to see another really good view on the campfire/Malibu fire, Bring Your Own Brigade is an amazing documentary on it.

  • @TeddyRumble

    @TeddyRumble

    4 күн бұрын

    To put shyster lawyers on, hoping to get rich from a tragedy. Vultures.

  • @81jeremylbradley
    @81jeremylbradley5 жыл бұрын

    I seriously feel that this incident is up there with Katrina. But yet no one on the east is talking about it. Thank you VICE for youre work. America is such a different place than one it was in the 80s and 90s. We’re all neighbors but also strangers.

  • @InvalidCharacter
    @InvalidCharacter4 жыл бұрын

    6:58 My sister recorded that, I still look back at it and thank the heavens that me and my family escaped safely. We were lucky compared to many other people. I escaped my school at about 8:03 AM, and my school started burning at 8:30 AM, from what I know.

  • @Mythril_Pulaski
    @Mythril_Pulaski5 жыл бұрын

    Lived in Paradise for 18 years, and in a matter of hours it was decimated. It makes me so sad to see it gone, and to see my townsfolk scattered and homeless is incredibly disheartening

  • @Aaron-is9xo
    @Aaron-is9xo5 жыл бұрын

    Should start putting power lines underground, like they are doing a lot lately.

  • @irumicu

    @irumicu

    5 жыл бұрын

    California is earthquakes prone.

  • @johnr.6029

    @johnr.6029

    4 жыл бұрын

    I owned a home (it burned in the fire) on Timber Ln. in Paradise off Pentz Rd. near Dean Rd. PG&E just finished putting underground power lines on the whole street maybe a week ago. This represents maybe 30 homes (former homes, anyway).

  • @TeddyRumble

    @TeddyRumble

    4 күн бұрын

    Very, very expensive, and vandalism.

  • @BV-nq7wd
    @BV-nq7wd4 жыл бұрын

    I was a lucky one. I had just upgraded all my Lighting in my home to LEDs, touched up the paint inside and out. I made it as perfect as I could get Just had the carpets cleaned the day before the fire. The home was vacant. I had planned on turning it into my retirement home. In a flash it was gone.

  • @dj1400777
    @dj14007774 жыл бұрын

    A friend I worked with in CalFire a few years ago worked for the ambulance company there and she almost got burned over. She posted on Instagram that it could be her last moments alive while she was at the hospital there trying to get patients out. The fear in her voice was haunting but luckily she got out alive.

  • @chadsmith66
    @chadsmith664 жыл бұрын

    Poor forest management, no prescribed burns, lots of fuel on forest floor along with being so dry

  • @souvikrc4499

    @souvikrc4499

    4 жыл бұрын

    And climate change and aging infrastructure...

  • @chadsmith66

    @chadsmith66

    4 жыл бұрын

    More like Geoengineering the weather

  • @enlightenedhummingbird5101

    @enlightenedhummingbird5101

    4 жыл бұрын

    This was all planned, and more to come worldwide. Check out stop the crime dot net, deborah tavares, and their version of events.

  • @siyabongamngomezulu9743

    @siyabongamngomezulu9743

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johnperic6860 drought.

  • @iheartbrentfaiyaz
    @iheartbrentfaiyaz4 жыл бұрын

    Lost everything. definitely the worst day of my life. Rip paradise

  • @mysunnysunshiine
    @mysunnysunshiine4 жыл бұрын

    We lost our home and everything we owned. We were homeless for 6 months with our 5 year old then we woke up yesterday morning in our recently new apartment to a small smoldering fire on our front lawn from the neighbor not properly putting out their cigarette. All the emotions from the campfire came flooding back. It was hard and it still is. PTSD is no joke.

  • @itsbeenmonths
    @itsbeenmonths5 жыл бұрын

    If you ever been there. You know the beautiful scenes we had. Oh I will treasure those years. Good luck to everyone who lost their homes to loved ones also that didn't loose anything God Bless You All. May the new year bring more positive perspectives but most of all enjoy yourself and stay strong.

  • @thatonekid701

    @thatonekid701

    4 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in paradise, we my not get much snow and rain, but the clean air , amazing veiw was worth it

  • @Bloodreign137
    @Bloodreign1375 жыл бұрын

    As resident near this area during the fires all I can say is that the videos of friends and loved ones digging through ash and rubble hoping to find anything from their lives left..it’s still haunting

  • @callmeishmael4659
    @callmeishmael46595 жыл бұрын

    Oh Jesus! I can't even watch that. Imagine being literally enveloped in traffic only to have fire inching closer to you second by second. I'd have been offroading my ass full speed out of there like a bat out of hell

  • @johnr.6029

    @johnr.6029

    4 жыл бұрын

    Off-roading would have ended your life in a ditch, into a tree, or into oncoming traffic or into the back-end of another vehicle. I don't know of anybody who off-roaded it out of there except for crashing through a fence or becoming disabled in a ditch. And I've talked with many people who evacuated like me, out of Paradise.

  • @ameeromedia5883

    @ameeromedia5883

    4 жыл бұрын

    john r. I watched an hour documentary on this fire on another channel. How in the world did you make it out of there because that place was engulfed from corner to corner. Even the survivors, they never mentioned how they got out.

  • @johnr.6029

    @johnr.6029

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@ameeromedia5883 Everybody's escape was different. My escape went fairly easily as I slowly drove through town on my way out with hundreds or thousands of others on the same road at the same time. However, right as I thought all was going well, suddenly my escape route turned into a fiery hell, and there was no one behind me. Everything turned dark black. Then fire tornado twisters shot across the roadway in front of me. Trees and brush alongside the road spontaneously burst into flames. Everything turned flaming orange bright and I could actually see the roadway. But I didn't see anyone in front of me or behind me. Where did everybody go? Later I learned that my exit route had been shut off because it had become an inferno. All those behind me had been diverted to a safer escape route, one that took 2+ hours. As soon as I could see maybe 100 - 200 feet in front of me due to the flames, I stepped on the gas. My face was burning through the glass side window. I thought my truck's engine would either melt or die, or I would rear-end someone and crash, or someone would crash into the back of me. Had any of those scenarios happened, I would have sat and burned alive in my truck, or burned alive by getting out of my truck and running - to who knows where. Then, after about 10 minutes of speeding almost blindly on my way down the hill toward Chico, I could see a clearing ahead and sped toward the visual clearing in the sky ahead of me. Just minutes behind me is where I thought I might die! A few minutes later, I was safe in Chico and talking in bewilderment to others who had also survived the exodus! I thank God that I am alive today, and that my wife and mother-in-law, who were minutes behind me, had escaped down the alternate route to safety in Chico.

  • @ameeromedia5883

    @ameeromedia5883

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@johnr.6029 Woooooooooowww. Thank you so much for sharing and glad you were able to make it out!

  • @oACE20o
    @oACE20o5 жыл бұрын

    My home town. We will rebuild! R.I.P to the 86 people who never made it out.

  • @TheNimshew

    @TheNimshew

    5 жыл бұрын

    I’m not so sure,420.

  • @elenthora442

    @elenthora442

    5 жыл бұрын

    Amen to that!

  • @paradiseconnection5308

    @paradiseconnection5308

    5 жыл бұрын

    We are rebuilding

  • @retiredarthritic2083
    @retiredarthritic20835 жыл бұрын

    A Canadian company has been selected to help rebuild Paradise, the northern California community that was almost entirely destroyed by a raging wildfire in November. Calgary-based Black Diamond Group Ltd. says its U.S. business unit has won a $20-million rental contract to supply portable housing units with 1,584 beds to support reconstruction. It says the initial term of the contract is for nine months, with an option to extend, and includes transportation costs.

  • @100consciouseternallightho6

    @100consciouseternallightho6

    5 жыл бұрын

    Do you think this is about "follow the money"?

  • @TeddyRumble

    @TeddyRumble

    4 күн бұрын

    Send money out of country. Smart. Typical Democrat move.

  • @lucasrendon4182
    @lucasrendon41825 жыл бұрын

    I lost my house and was burnt in the 2017 fires. Was like the apocalypse living through it.

  • @delilahhart4398
    @delilahhart4398 Жыл бұрын

    PG&E has never really been held to account, because none of the key decision makers associated with it have done prison time

  • @TeddyRumble

    @TeddyRumble

    4 күн бұрын

    For what exactly? Not stopping 75 mph winds? For CalFire dragging its feet on evacuations?

  • @jkfilms6738
    @jkfilms67385 жыл бұрын

    seeing stuff like that makes me want to be a firefighter or EMS person.

  • @janbadinski7126

    @janbadinski7126

    5 жыл бұрын

    It looks like you would make a great first responder. I hope you choose that area for a career.

  • @jkfilms6738

    @jkfilms6738

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@janbadinski7126 well one of my goals is the navy for a bit but yeah.

  • @janbadinski7126

    @janbadinski7126

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@jkfilms6738 They can teach you stuff as a good head start for your (hopefully) new career.

  • @nancyking2867

    @nancyking2867

    4 жыл бұрын

    J&K films Then you should do it, I'm sure they could use you.

  • @zacbroughton154

    @zacbroughton154

    Ай бұрын

    want a medal?

  • @Quietcowgirl
    @Quietcowgirl5 жыл бұрын

    Rest In Peace Paradise. I feel blessed to have spent my childhood here, met my first love, experienced my first heart break here..to graduate high school and have my son here.. I feel blessed to have known it and remember it as what it was..Paradise. My mom, my uncle and so many of my friends lost absolutely everything.. but I’m blessed to have their lives intact...So many are stuck in this illusion of rebuilding.. which may happen. But the devastation and the losses are so great; I feel as if it’s one giant graveyard full of souls that were not ready and died a horrific death.. may those souls rest peacefully in their own Paradise.

  • @SFVnative

    @SFVnative

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@justLori530--Racist? Because they wanted a crime and violence free environment? Interesting that nobody minds Asians moving next door. Gee, I wonder why that is. No black home buyers were ever intetested in living there anyway.

  • @SFVnative

    @SFVnative

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@justLori530--Where have you been staying? We give so much money to the Red Cross; did they not help you?

  • @jb95969
    @jb959695 жыл бұрын

    It’s been six months to the day since our town burned down. It’s as painful now as it was on November 8th.

  • @skyykell1288
    @skyykell12885 жыл бұрын

    My boyfriend is a wildland firefighter and we can attest these fires aren’t by poor management from the forest service, I’ve seen him come home from being out on a fire for 21 days take his mandatory 2 days off and then head right back out, these men and women bust there butts and try to save what land they can 😔 this is the most devastating fire we have seen in the years he’s been a firefighter

  • @therapedwarf502

    @therapedwarf502

    5 жыл бұрын

    Being a wildland firefighter doesn't automatically mean you know anything about fire science or forest stand dynamics.

  • @TeddyRumble

    @TeddyRumble

    4 күн бұрын

    Of course it's poor forest management. Democrats don't want to clear cut. Clear cut means fire breaks, but no...

  • @fantasyNamerian
    @fantasyNamerian5 жыл бұрын

    That's so sad.

  • @kari_koo
    @kari_koo5 жыл бұрын

    I’m from Chico the whole entire time this was happening was filled with fear terrible and devastating. Love to all that have been affected 💛

  • @Linaluvv000
    @Linaluvv0004 жыл бұрын

    I was effected by this fire too, half of the people didn’t get evacuation calls. The sign we had to leave was the sky was pitch black. My house was in the hottest point, right next to the hospital.

  • @Jules-6022
    @Jules-60224 жыл бұрын

    Well presented. My heart goes out to everyone affected. Love, hugs, & prayers 🙏❤

  • @ctr0n675
    @ctr0n6755 жыл бұрын

    Your Breaker box sparked and lost 8 football fields of land in 1 minute.

  • @markoaurelius2046

    @markoaurelius2046

    5 жыл бұрын

    Did the breaker box ever find the 8 foot ball fields? I'd name that breaker box Sparky now.

  • @markoaurelius2046

    @markoaurelius2046

    5 жыл бұрын

    boy did it ever! Hee hee. No shit sherlock .what was your first clue? I always wanted to say that after a fire that destroyed a whole town in just a few hours. Finally got my opportunity...Hee hee.

  • @hambone4984
    @hambone49845 жыл бұрын

    So glad I left California. During the fires my family kept me updated and thankfully no one died but even after some had to evacuate due to fire, many of them had to evacuate due to smoke and there were people going door to door passing out masks, air filters, and various kits in areas that weren't even close to the fire but were being hit massively with the smoke

  • @markoaurelius2046

    @markoaurelius2046

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hammster Wonder Cheeks WTF are you on?

  • @SFVnative

    @SFVnative

    4 жыл бұрын

    People did die. There is a video of burned out cars with skeletons in the seats. What would take 75-100 years in a grave this fire did in minutes.

  • @SFVnative

    @SFVnative

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Markus Allen--Do you even know this person you're writing this nonsense to? What the hell is wrong with you?

  • @thisistheworldtoday

    @thisistheworldtoday

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hammster Wonder Cheeks they say about 80 people died but does that seem accurate?

  • @melissag1364
    @melissag13644 жыл бұрын

    I live in the town 15 miles away that most people evacuated to. My roommate woke me up to tell me there was a big fire in Paradise and I was kinda like “yeah whatever fires happen”. Got up a bit later and it looked like it was 9pm outside. Dark hellfire skies and ash raining down on everything. There’s something very surreal about seeing people going about their everyday business in full respirators while it’s almost pitch dark and sirens are constantly blaring in the distance. Our population increased by 26% after the fire

  • @TheNimshew
    @TheNimshew5 жыл бұрын

    I lived in Paradise from 1981 until Thursday, November 8, 2018. Basically,my entire adult life. I go into town just about every day. And every day I end up angry when I drive down the hill. Frustration, loss, disorientation....tears every day. Yes,living in a 5th wheel is better than living outside, but not much better. It sucks. No rentals. The occupation rate for Butte county before the fire was 98%. Now? Good luck finding a place to rent. And the rents have gone through the roof. After all, if you can’t make money after a catastrophe, when can you?

  • @SFVnative

    @SFVnative

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thete should be a rent freeze.

  • @ToastyCoClothing
    @ToastyCoClothing5 жыл бұрын

    the lady at the end "i wish you could have been here before" just ripped through me

  • @markoaurelius2046

    @markoaurelius2046

    5 жыл бұрын

    did you get sewed back up yet? Tee hee...I was floored over that one! Hardy harr harr harr!

  • @auxta5355
    @auxta53554 жыл бұрын

    This wild fire was soooooo close to where I live, honestly scary.

  • @maliaminer3324
    @maliaminer33244 жыл бұрын

    almost a year later and it’s still chilling... even in the sacramento area when the fires were going on the skies where grey and red for weeks and the smoke caused schools to close for a few days and people were urged to get masks. Horrible situation, thank god for those who survived

  • @HaleighAundreaGeorge
    @HaleighAundreaGeorge4 жыл бұрын

    This makes me want to cry, it literally looks like hell on earth

  • @emyemyemyyyy
    @emyemyemyyyy5 жыл бұрын

    We need a better alert system. Half the time you don’t have cable, electricity, your phone doesn’t work, the news doesn’t give updates until things have already happened, you don’t know until the police are driving down your road with a megaphone telling you to get out. When you do get out, the shelters are either evacuated and moved (before you even arrive and can even find that out), or you can’t take your animals (like when the downs burned down, lots of those horses were evacuated horses being held there). So many people down here have farm animals etc, too, it’s difficult to explain until you’ve experienced it. Horrific. We need a better way.

  • @emyemyemyyyy

    @emyemyemyyyy

    5 жыл бұрын

    Also, the power companies don’t care about us. We’re rural, they take care of the places with more publicity faster and ignore us. This last year we had a simple problem and our whole street was out for days and they were going to fix random things (it’s all reported online) that were much less important but in less rural areas. We would call and they would have no information, they wouldn’t even let us actually report it for a day. We ended up having to contact media as my mom had just had chemo and it was getting into the 40s at night. The second we called and said we had media coming they were there, suddenly not too busy to acknowledge us. They keep upping the rates for reasons that don’t make sense as well. Adding random fees etc. it’s really ridiculous.

  • @emyemyemyyyy

    @emyemyemyyyy

    5 жыл бұрын

    We don’t have good roads going out, either. Our roads are notoriously bad to begin with, during the big fires a few years back we had one road out, they had to open the base up to us it was so bad, and they eventually locked us all in and there was no way out. It’s frustrating and you never know when or where it will hit, and when it does you’re completely on your own.

  • @themilitantvegan2515
    @themilitantvegan25155 жыл бұрын

    But trump says it's cold in the Midwest so all is ok

  • @kilomilo917

    @kilomilo917

    5 жыл бұрын

    Everyone knows trump knows way more than those stupid scientists (sarcasm)

  • @adgtheg4146

    @adgtheg4146

    5 жыл бұрын

    This is the West not the mid west, I'm in Utah and it's fucking freezing.

  • @sheacarrigan8868

    @sheacarrigan8868

    5 жыл бұрын

    This is Northern California

  • @themilitantvegan2515

    @themilitantvegan2515

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@sheacarrigan8868 lol you folks seriously don't get what I am saying

  • @NelliSmith

    @NelliSmith

    5 жыл бұрын

    But the Cheeto is an umbrella expert that also makes him a climate expert. Be nice guys!

  • @MijoShrek
    @MijoShrek5 жыл бұрын

    This is vice & true video journalism at it's finest. Very well made and filmed of a monumentally important cornerstone of a new kind of scary future in cali fam, you can literally feel the weight of the devestation. In my lifetime I see it just get more ramped up each year now..

  • @RoMayDrako
    @RoMayDrako5 жыл бұрын

    I will always remember that video that a guy took when he went back to his friends and realized he was the only one to survive.

  • @osamabindiesel3389
    @osamabindiesel33894 жыл бұрын

    Terry woolcox actually recorded a video immediately after the fire went through his neighborhood and its horrifyingly real. He found the scorched bodies of his neighbors that didn’t make it and you can see what they were doing their very last moments before their death. Highly recommend anyone watch if you can stomach it.

  • @aimeejupp7691
    @aimeejupp76915 жыл бұрын

    The guy from 14.15 + broke my heart when he started to breakdown about his childhood at this house 😭😭😭 I’m in New Zealand and in Napier a fire just started and then another 3 happen the world is telling us to be prepared if you don’t change the way, and save the world RIP California my prayers will go out for all of you

  • @chinoloc916
    @chinoloc9165 жыл бұрын

    I remember clinicals got cancelled that morning. I took a few things and went back to sac. The freeway 99south was stopped, dark, and fire and everyone going code 3. I have 3 classmates that lost their homes.... it was intense. I went back to Chico and donated as much as I could and tried to do my part. All I know Is when we came back to school at butte... it was rough seeing my classmates that lost all. The nursing staff, program, and classmates all held together and strong. We all supported each other.

  • @Oscaregarciaiii123
    @Oscaregarciaiii1235 жыл бұрын

    In Oregon (state above Cali) there was so much smoke fire coming into the Valley that they even told us "Don go outside unless you absolutely need to if you suffer from breathing problems, asthma, allergies, etc." and I was living only 300 miles away. It was so bad I couldn't tell if it was a cloudy day or if it was smoke. I could only imagine being down there and having to deal with this.

  • @Brian_Moser1118
    @Brian_Moser11184 жыл бұрын

    i've been to paradise a few times and always thought its such a gorgeous town and that i might live there one day.. and to think that could've been me burnt alive trying to escape its crazy

  • @endosmokingtv3391
    @endosmokingtv33915 жыл бұрын

    I love you California!

  • @SFVnative

    @SFVnative

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Markus Allen--Then why don't you go there?

  • @gokaren420
    @gokaren4204 жыл бұрын

    Strange fire.......something was not right...never seen a fire melt cars

  • @jacobt6412

    @jacobt6412

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fires can melt cars, especially aluminum. My girlfriends aunt lost her house and a car was mellted alongside from a San Diego wildfire on a windy day.

  • @mattl3916

    @mattl3916

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes.. nothing at all normal about these fires. DONT let anyone try to tell you any different. You question this because you are Smart and you know better. Most people will allow Fox News to dictate and control the narrative of just about any story that surfaces on our television, but Not You and it's because you are Intelligent and bright, and beautiful 😘

  • @gunfuego
    @gunfuego5 жыл бұрын

    I hope everyone involved finds closure. May God Bless them and their Families.

  • @Raja-bz4yw
    @Raja-bz4yw3 жыл бұрын

    2020: I'm about to break this fire record

  • @jayrod9002
    @jayrod90023 жыл бұрын

    Now it's September 2020, and California fires have set a new record of destruction; the fire season is just beginning.

  • @owenbrown5763
    @owenbrown57635 жыл бұрын

    My house burnt down in Paradise. Times have been hard but we will get through it.

  • @binladen4631
    @binladen46313 жыл бұрын

    Im hear while the record pasts itself again in 2020

  • @tiffsaver
    @tiffsaver4 жыл бұрын

    PG&E is the deadliest UTILITY COMPANY in California history.

  • @TeddyRumble

    @TeddyRumble

    4 күн бұрын

    You are worse, racist!

  • @MrHavoc313
    @MrHavoc3135 жыл бұрын

    Good Job Vice on the reporting its so hard to find such good journalism these days keep up the good work.

  • @doloresperez2554

    @doloresperez2554

    5 жыл бұрын

    More like its so hard to find a good president these days

  • @arthursalas8010

    @arthursalas8010

    5 жыл бұрын

    JJ do vice is now what qualifies as good journalism. It all makes sense now

  • @alexanderbecker6294

    @alexanderbecker6294

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@doloresperez2554 just stop

  • @doloresperez2554

    @doloresperez2554

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@alexanderbecker6294 fools

  • @doloresperez2554

    @doloresperez2554

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@alexanderbecker6294 stop what? My freedom of speech?

  • @tomkelly8827
    @tomkelly88275 жыл бұрын

    Forests standing all around and homes burned to the ground? What kind of forest fire is that?

  • @N530SYF
    @N530SYF5 жыл бұрын

    I live by Sacramento river off south Ave. and watched this fire in its beginning. Sad I know many people who lost it all.

  • @G.G556
    @G.G5565 жыл бұрын

    This fire got my little cat very ill and some other health problems sprang up on him and I had to put him down during the fires, it was really bad smoke in the air in San Francisco for a long week or more, I hope all effected are slowly gathering themselves,step by step. That cat helped me through a lot. I can’t imagine some people don’t even have anything left at all. Atlease I had closure.

  • @elcacheton3868

    @elcacheton3868

    5 жыл бұрын

    Come get a feral cat from my neighborhood in Sacramento . We have like 15

  • @markoaurelius2046

    @markoaurelius2046

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oh...you at least had closure...but you have one other thing....A DEAD CAT!

  • @SFVnative

    @SFVnative

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@markoaurelius2046--Down voted.

  • @InJusticeWon
    @InJusticeWon5 жыл бұрын

    Condolences to all those who lost their homes and loved ones during the fires, we can recover from the Holy Fire and Camp Fire.

  • @ResurrectedRhythm
    @ResurrectedRhythm4 жыл бұрын

    This is so very sad too see it repeating again. God Bless those affected 🙏🙏🙏😢

  • @cassie9682
    @cassie96824 жыл бұрын

    Chico is only 3 hours away from me...I'm very very grateful now

  • @ikeekieeki
    @ikeekieeki5 жыл бұрын

    this is tragic and upsetting. all those responsible, at all levels, should face harsh consequences. these people and the wildlife deserve justice.

  • @awooga2846

    @awooga2846

    5 жыл бұрын

    Markus Allen you need to be asking yourself that

  • @awooga2846

    @awooga2846

    5 жыл бұрын

    Markus Allen I’ll tell you what you didn’t do, use freaking grammar you ingrown sausage link

  • @LeonardoDeVinci1452
    @LeonardoDeVinci14525 жыл бұрын

    I have lived in fire country to think it would never happen. Then you are denial. When I left my home town the county only had 16 thousand residents now it has 60 thousand. They have to be living somewhere. Here is the price of living in the forest area

  • @markoaurelius2046

    @markoaurelius2046

    5 жыл бұрын

    Leonardo De Vinci WTF is wrong with you? Whatever it is...it's serious! What justifies that statement? You are one sick and disturbed monster!

  • @karenengelhardt1610

    @karenengelhardt1610

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@markoaurelius2046 I get what he meant, though it is a bit mangled. Emotion will do that. The fire and its damage is the cost. People grew complacent about fire danger, and few people thought of outdated electrical equipment. The town narrowly escaped a fire ten years earlier, and in those ten years firebreaks were poorly maintained around many buildings, which helped the spread of the fire. All the years I lived on the ridge I dreaded this very thing.

  • @markoaurelius2046

    @markoaurelius2046

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@karenengelhardt1610 I never asked you shit! SO BUZZ OFF!

  • @markoaurelius2046

    @markoaurelius2046

    4 жыл бұрын

    NO The price is being murdered by directed energy weapons! That is what the evidence shows! So don't freaking blame me for saying this! blame the evidence! Fires of any magnitude cannot and will not melt aluminum alloy rims on any automobile like candle wax and leave a plastic trash can in tact! MORONIC Shill POS SKUMBAG! People were incinerated in their vehicles on the streetl...MORONIC SHILL POS SKUMBAG! ENGINE BLOCKS MELTED UNDER THE HOODS OF CARS...YOU MORONIC SHILL POS SKUMBAG! NO WILDFIRE OF ANY MAGNITUDE IS CAPABLE OF DOING THIS...MORINIC SHILL POS SKUMBAG!

  • @markoaurelius2046

    @markoaurelius2046

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@karenengelhardt1610 YOU NEED TO GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE..I HOPE YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN YOU MORONIC SHILL POS SKUMBAG!

  • @crystalbowen7118
    @crystalbowen71182 жыл бұрын

    After 4 years it still has not clicked. Bless all the people with lots of love ...

  • @jmjosemora16
    @jmjosemora164 жыл бұрын

    That town will never be the same again.

  • @daniel3231995
    @daniel32319955 жыл бұрын

    Glimpse of a ubiquitous reality we're all going to face soon. Prepare.

  • @trurtleshark6342

    @trurtleshark6342

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lol how?

  • @daniel3231995

    @daniel3231995

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@trurtleshark6342 the fact you even ask that is how. Did you even watch it?

  • @tammymarbury5199

    @tammymarbury5199

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@daniel3231995 end of times prophesy it's right in the bible..when he say my word shall go out and return not to me void we better believe it

  • @markoaurelius2046

    @markoaurelius2046

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes..prepare! thanks for the tip...Dan And do we have to ubiquitously prepare?

  • @watchthe1369

    @watchthe1369

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@markoaurelius2046 search "Wildfire in the urban interface." Look at US forest service videos on Fire Safe. It will be a weekend of time well spent.

  • @t0n0k0
    @t0n0k03 жыл бұрын

    Year 2020: Hold my everything Seriously this year is really bad, we need to change behaviour as our culture in alot of ways, not just adapt anymore.

  • @drewstaples9648
    @drewstaples96485 жыл бұрын

    so so sad! makes you really be thankful for everything you have!

  • @mohdizzatismat3833
    @mohdizzatismat38333 жыл бұрын

    this is heartbreaking stay safe guys

  • @Takeshi_Kovacs7
    @Takeshi_Kovacs75 жыл бұрын

    I dont understan why people in the US dont just bury the cables like most developed countrys do. In germany most powerlines are in the ground and just a few big powerlines are still above the ground to carry a huge amount of energy, but those lines run are completely secured and trees are beeing removed around them. If you would build stone houses like we do, burry cables like we do, then you would be more safe. Its sad that the US economy pushes you to get cheaper stuff for your money while putting you at risk. Thats not the way it should be. Wish you the best.

  • @ItsChurchieYall

    @ItsChurchieYall

    5 жыл бұрын

    We wish we could, at least people who have though about it over here wish we could just bury them, but taking them down and burying them would cost so much money- look at the US right now, the president wants to spend billions on a border wall that isnt going to work, obviously we wouldn't spend money to do something genuinely useful... which is awful since after storms when they fall and are already down why the hell are we bothering putting them back up Note: some places have it but most dont and wont ever have the money to unless the government steps in

  • @johndowe7003

    @johndowe7003

    5 жыл бұрын

    usa is 28 times size of germany just think about that for a minute

  • @Takeshi_Kovacs7

    @Takeshi_Kovacs7

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@johndowe7003 Size has nothing to do with this. Your ecenomy is huge, the money is there (just in the wrong hands) and you can still have powerlines in wildfire-free areas.

  • @Takeshi_Kovacs7

    @Takeshi_Kovacs7

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ItsChurchieYall Hope that the USA will make it through this mess, since Europe and the USA are connected through mindset, trade, heritage and history. Stay strong

  • @hambone4984

    @hambone4984

    5 жыл бұрын

    California has A LOT of earthquakes and even more tremors, so everyone tries to avoid putting anything in the ground (basements, pools, power lines...etc)

  • @novamaria5119
    @novamaria51195 жыл бұрын

    I'm from Germany and I can't imagine a fire like that. I'm sending so much love to all the familys that lost their home or a loved Person

  • @irumicu

    @irumicu

    5 жыл бұрын

    If you want to understand the true reality and horror of a fire like this closer to home (i.e, Europe) just look at the fires in Spain, Greece, and Portugal.

  • @robertdanyus6836
    @robertdanyus68365 жыл бұрын

    Have lived magalia / paradise area for 35 years and have delivery route in same area.....this fire is one which we've been waiting for and it is more devestating then anyone could imagine

  • @karenengelhardt1610

    @karenengelhardt1610

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I lived there too, and in dread. Can't tell you how many times I would wake on a hot summer morning to the sound of a transformer blowing up, because everyone has to run fans and AC on those hell hot days, but the fear was always worse when everyone's propane tanks were full.

  • @sunnyvang8623
    @sunnyvang86235 жыл бұрын

    Lived in oroville for 11 years, Yet this is still scary to see.

  • @MrKevinEaddy
    @MrKevinEaddy5 жыл бұрын

    14:40 thats my neighbor mikes truck and the fabulous 80s houses fireplace in the back.. my house is the house on the right, its still there tho

  • @MrKevinEaddy

    @MrKevinEaddy

    5 жыл бұрын

    Markus Allen i dont know whats so hard to understand?

  • @masterluxai8416
    @masterluxai84164 жыл бұрын

    Watching this is incredibly sad.. I’m in California and it’s October and Fires are still raging. I’m so scared

  • @trinkin361
    @trinkin3614 жыл бұрын

    This is my home 💔

  • @Mike-xg3mi
    @Mike-xg3mi2 жыл бұрын

    Another problem is we’ve gotten so obsessed with “saving the forests” that we don’t deforest properly and create the perfect storm of overgrown forest which fuels the fires in a uniquely dangerous way

  • @articnexas2548
    @articnexas25483 жыл бұрын

    Who is still here? *WaTcHiNg ThIs In 2020*

  • @olivia73aguilar
    @olivia73aguilar5 жыл бұрын

    I’m from paradise ca lost my home 😢

  • @SFVnative

    @SFVnative

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm sorry. Where did you go and how are you doing now?

  • @jeffreygillispie8780
    @jeffreygillispie87804 жыл бұрын

    And here we are again with the Kincade fire. THANKS AGAIN PG&E!!!!

  • @Ninawena
    @Ninawena3 жыл бұрын

    Just watched Ron Howard’s documentary on paradise and truly devastating brought me to tears

  • @aenorist2431
    @aenorist24315 жыл бұрын

    Powerlines need to be very large steel pylons, local distribution underground. This is only even a discussion because the US has third world infrastructure.

  • @The-Ink-Dragon97
    @The-Ink-Dragon975 жыл бұрын

    I'm from Ukiah CA. Our airport was landing and sending planes out like every ten minutes. We were, in a nutshell, on the frontlines for all these fires for the past few years.

  • @jamesfarrell1116
    @jamesfarrell11164 жыл бұрын

    A truly horrible situation. My thoughts and prayers are with the citizens of California. I hope that you are going to get your life's back together. One day at a time. Greetings from Atlantic City New Jersey. Have a wonderful day today.

  • @TheBassManJeff
    @TheBassManJeff2 жыл бұрын

    I was an insurance adjuster for AAA when this happened and every claim was utter devastation. What a tragic event.