[cake_crumb]

"I hope that those people don't wait too long to evacuate."

Me too...but I can tell you from experience that the bulk are ready and will evacuate in good order, but there might be a few who will be stupid...and the rescure crews will have to waste valuable time and resources, and will endanger their own lives, making sure either everyone is out or rescuing the idiots who waited too long.

[Grampa Dave]

Those roads are narrow and can't handle a massive all at once evacuation even without smoke or fire hazards.

If they are smoking and 17,000 people start to mass evacuation, those roads might look like what the road from Kuwait to Iraq looked like when Saddam's thugs waited too long to leave Kuwait.