Heartbreaking photos show the toll on firefighters as they seek to rest or take a break amid the California blazes https://t.co/1GUjHxQbeH pic.twitter.com/UYwfnPByrH— CNN (@CNN) October 13, 2017
Inspiring story about the Santa Rosa Hospital Staff and their efforts during the fires. More at link.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Their-homes-went-up-in-flames-but-saving-lives-12282891.php
As Santa Rosa hospital staff’s own homes burned, they kept saving lives
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital stayed open even though 51 of its doctors lost their homes. It stayed open even when twice as many patients as normal crowded into its emergency room, coughing and gasping. It stayed open and delivered 36 babies.
“We had no way of knowing what was coming,” said Tyler Hedden, the hospital’s chief operating officer, reflecting on Monday about what was doubtless the toughest week in the hospital’s 67-year history.
Sonoma County began burning in the late hours of Oct. 8. Within days, the voracious wildfires would grow to be among the deadliest, most damaging blazes in California’s history, killing 41 people — 22 of them in Sonoma County — and gobbling thousands of homes and hundreds of thousands of acres.
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital was one of the first places to get the call. Get ready, said the paramedics in the ambulances, we’re coming.