I wish a reporter would report on not only humans not being about to escape the inferno, but what about the spotted owl, the very reason for not cutting anymore trees in fed or state land? Keeping man out of the federal and states forests has been such a living success for man and beast!
More accurately the call of the spotted owl. I believe the biologist later admitted he never saw one, rather heard it. After his retirement of course. As to the fate of the spotted owl, I'm sorry big owls eat little owls. Don't know what the big owls taste like, but maybe owl season is a solution. Big owls.
Just read an article in the Prospecting and Mining Journal that was sent in by one of our prospectors out of Redding.
He decided that after the Carr Fire it would be a good time to go out metal detecting looking for those nuggets in areas that were opened up because all the brush and trees were gone.
He wrote about a doe deer he had found, she was forward on her knees and burned to death.
He figures she was running from the fire and when all the oxygen got sucked out of the air by the fire storm she just went to her knees to rest, and just never got up again when the fire overtook her.
I live in Hayfork, just a few miles from the Carr fire burn and I can tell you, everything is just gone.
The fire was so hot it burned even the underground roots.
It looks like an atom bomb was dropped there.
The doe was the one that caught his eye, but from experience (was a wildland fire fighter as a young man) I can tell you that EVERYTHING inside that burn area is DEAD.