Posted on 08/07/2021 4:06:39 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Firefighters working the massive Dixie Fire burning in several Northern California counties are having to deal with another challenge: residents who refuse to evacuate and are brandishing guns at fire crews.
Flames from the Dixie Fire advanced into the town of Greenville, burning an estimated 75% of homes and businesses in the historic Gold Rush-era town of about 1,000 residents.
Meanwhile, the fire has aready destroyed another town: Canyondam, Ca.
Fire crews have encountered property owners who were refusing to leave their homes as the flames approached and threatening firefighters with weapons.
California Incident Management operations section chief Jake Cagle made the stunning revelation at the end of the Thursday morning news briefing.
“[Wednesday] was a very tough day for all of us. There is stuff out there that we didn’t want to see. Again, talking about the people out there dealing with evacuations. We are all challenged. Law enforcement’s challenged.
“We have firefighters getting guns pulled out on them because people don’t want to evacuate. That’s just the duality. That’s what it is. Not trying to place the blame on the landowners. We understand, our hearts go out to them.”
Cagle said when residents ignore evacuation orders, it makes it more difficult for crews to contain the fires since they are diverted into transporting people in fire vehicles to safety.
“The impacts, the devastation we understand. That’s why we are here, we are trying to do the best we can. That is our sole intention. But again it comes down to life threat, and that’s what we need to manage.”
CA residents have guns? I thought the commie gbmint’ here took them all s/
They know once they leave, thieves come to pick at the wreckage..
My heart breaks for them. It’s got to be horrible to watch everything you have built being destroyed and there is nothing they can do.
Hi.
In Florida during a hurricane if you’re in a zone deemed necessary to evacuate, and you don’t, the police/fire/emt will tell you to write your SSN in indelible ink on your arm if you don’t evac.
5.56mm
Long before the arrival of European invaders, native American Indians were using controlled burns to manage the ecology for their own benefit and the benefit of the wildlife they depended on for food.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_use_of_fire_in_ecosystems
But Lieberals know everything and made sure flammable biomass accumulated to catastrophic levels so the could blame climate change.
“It’s got to be horrible to watch everything you have built being destroyed and there is nothing they can do.”
Sort of like the Obama years for America as a nation followed by a brief reprieve during the Trump presidency. Now we’re back to the same downward track.
“”My heart breaks for them. It’s got to be horrible to watch everything you have built being destroyed and there is nothing they can do.””
That’s about all that any of us could say...you said it for us. Hard to imagine that kind of devastation.
Indellible ink is pretty useless if you are burned to a crisp.
Hurricane Steve, hurricane.
5.56mm
This. Burned corpses do not look as people would think.
Nor will they be allowed to return any time soon.
Cant they at least try doing fire breaks around a property and then working to redue anything that tries to come over and burn stuff?
You burn a sacrifice perimeter area around what you want to save and when the fire meets it theres no burnable fuel left in the burnt perimeter, and it goes around. You have to watch for stuff in the air overhead and put those out, but i would think it would give people a fighting chance
The radiant heat will get you.
Government knows better.
They put out the small fires, then they run when a big one burns what the small ones should have.
Idiots.
Hmmm
This is pure BS...these towns are being sacrificed on the alter of climate change...either by choice...or incompetence....
Environmentalist won't allow it.
This is pure BS...these towns are being sacrificed on the alter of climate change...either by choice...or incompetence....
Agree.
Do you suppose the citizens of these CA towns will ever wake up and run their ‘leaders’ out on a rail??
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