08-21-2020, 12:58 AM
the eucalyptus trees were actually exploding.
That's something a lot of people don't know about them.
Not only to they catch fire and burn rapidly, but they often explode, sending embers everywhere, over great distances.
Cal Fire lost a contractor and his helo yesterday while making waterdrops.
Two squads of deputies from our SO left to help with mandatory evacuations in other counties under a mutual aid agreement.
They're going into very rural territories to tell people:
you must evacuate, it's mandatory
this is your only warning
we will not come back for you
there is no help coming
It's a little heartbreaking because some of those warned will.not.leave. and will not be evicted/evactuated.
As deputies clear the area and RTB, they will warn those they encounter if at all possible, a second time, and then they're gone.
That's something a lot of people don't know about them.
Not only to they catch fire and burn rapidly, but they often explode, sending embers everywhere, over great distances.
Cal Fire lost a contractor and his helo yesterday while making waterdrops.
Two squads of deputies from our SO left to help with mandatory evacuations in other counties under a mutual aid agreement.
They're going into very rural territories to tell people:
you must evacuate, it's mandatory
this is your only warning
we will not come back for you
there is no help coming
It's a little heartbreaking because some of those warned will.not.leave. and will not be evicted/evactuated.
As deputies clear the area and RTB, they will warn those they encounter if at all possible, a second time, and then they're gone.