Back in 2018, the Camp Fire of Paradise CA burned my whole town down.
Here we are in 2024 and we're being evacuated again for the Park Fire, a fire set by a pedophile who got out of prison recently. Not joking about that.
So anyway, might lose my house.
Again.
To a fire threatening to burn my town down.
Again.
If anyone would like to donate to help my family, please donate to my GoFundMe to escape California, or donate to my Donate Button on my main page.
Please reblog this post as well, my family is packing up and leaving with just about $120 in our collective banks and we don't know how long we'll be evacuated.
It’s strange, how mesmerizing it is to watch our own destruction
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The Park Fire started July 24th at around 3pm in Upper Bidwell Park of Chico, CA. It was started by a man pushing his buring vehicle down into a Ravine and instead of calling to report what had happened, he walked away.
When we went to sleep last night the fire had burned over 6,000 acres but when we woke up it had consumed 47,000 acres in one night. It is now at 124,949 acres and the largest fire of the year in California. Despite having a wet winter, we’ve had a scorching summer leaving much of Northern California a tinder box.
Forest fires were a normal occurrence before humans arrived in this area. Some species even relied on forest fires to spread their spores or reset habitats. But since Global Climate Change has been taking place, leaving us in year long droughts and at high fire risk, these fires are far more destructive than they ever were before.
My family and I are south of the fire and have not been issued an evacuation warning but we are right on the edge of evacuation zones.
My grandmother’s friend, someone who lost their house in the Campfire that ripped through Paradise, CA in 2018 (literally the next town over from the Park Fire) her new house just burned last night in this fire. How many more towns need to burn and lives destroyed before people realize that THIS ISN’T NORMAL?
Super fun news update; a fire broke out near my home yesterday! Within 24 hours it's now labeled as the largest active wildfire in California.
It started because some 42 year old white man PUSHED A BURNING CAR INTO A GULLY at one of our local public hiking spots! He was caught doing this on civilian camera, and has since been identified and arrested without bail.
On a personal note; my home is not currently in the burn zone, but we evacuated anyway since we were so close (less than a mile from the next evacuation zone). The winds are so high and the temperature is so hot, I just... Don't trust like that.
A family of Rottweilers was abandoned by their owner as they fled the blaze. Firefighters found the dogs a few days later in a truck by the
Excerpt from this story from the LA Times:
A litter of Rottweiler puppies and their mother were saved from a fiery death in the Park fire thanks to a determined member of the Butte County Sheriff’s Office, officials said.
The rescue is one of the few silver linings to the Park fire in Northern California. The blaze had burned almost 390,000 acres as of Wednesday morning and was still only 18% contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The dogs, two adult Rottweilers and their four puppies, were left in a truck that had broken down on the side of the road, left behind by residents who were evacuating the blaze near Campbellville in Butte County, the Sheriff’s Office said.
The truck’s owner was not able to take the dogs, but provided the location of the vehicle to the Sheriff’s Office. Because of the fire, rescuers could not immediately get to the dogs’ location.
On Saturday, days after the dogs were abandoned, Trevor Skaggs, a member of the sheriff’s search-and-rescue team, flew to the area in a helicopter to find the dogs.
After landing, Skaggs ran more than a mile to the location where the dogs were reported to be. Though the adult male Rottweiler had died, Skaggs found the mother and puppies still alive in the truck — “tired and very thirsty” — according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Skaggs’ wife, Christina, told the San Jose Mercury News that Skaggs is a vegan and ultra marathoner and that he ran from the helicopter to where the dogs were. Skaggs was familiar with Rottweilers because his first dog was a Rottweiler, she said.
Once he found the dogs, Skaggs sang to them and was able to persuade the mother, and then the puppies, to trust him, his wife said.
Skaggs gave the animals water and fed them a few bites of his granola bar and then got the animals to follow him back more than a mile to the helicopter.
Video provided by the Sheriff’s Office shows the puppies and the mother trailing behind Skaggs as he led them back to the helicopter.
In the wake of the Park fire, I am so, so worried for you all. I was a firefighter for a decade and the pictures I'm seeing from the front lines absolutely blow my mind.
This fire is racing and devouring everything in its path. It's an evil fire started by an evil person. Watching my home (Northern California/Shasta) burning AGAIN is just devastating. My heart hurts.
Heed your warnings. Don't wait for alarms to sound. If you have even a smidgen of doubt, get your family and your pets and GTFO.
I send you all safety, love, and water energy to help stifle the flames. I love you all. Please be careful.
