Sometimes this is what it's like. Thank you, firefighters. Thanks again.
A wildfire that threatens your home is not like a hurricane back east. It's a different disaster experience. Wildfires are a surprise too fast for the news. This spirited man has lived in many different places, but never until now, in a place that comes with a disaster.
Survival guide: when you move in every year he's caught off guard this fire. This fire is four months early. He spotted it on the way to a playground. If we've got to leave, he thought i'm packing just the hard drives this time.
Maybe the laptop the helplessness and the fear diminishes with each new fire season gives way to preparedness. The plan, execution and respect. Can you smell the smoke, respect for the fire and respect for the folks who put it out who save your home? This is a local spot, a trailhead that locals use this spirited man and his family parked in this pullout, because around the corner they saw fire trucks and they don't want to be in the way. If you want to help firefighters, it seems the best you can do is get out of the way after one of the trucks pulled out his family drove in to find out if their home was safe.
The firefighter's reaction to the arrival of this uninvited family surprised this spirited man. They did not act like authorities, though they were. They acted like fellow members of a community like friendly neighbors. They treated this family with respect.
One firefighter explained the status of the fire and some of the techniques employed to fight the fire. He explained that there were hundreds, more firefighters over the ridge on foot and out of sight and though the firemen did not say it explicitly, he gave the feeling that our homes were safe, another firefighter snapped us a photo for our holiday card and the next day, All of the evacuation orders were lifted. You.
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If I decided to Live in a Forest. I would install several metal Fireproof pipes (not cheap plastic abs) from my water Well pump to several Sprinkler heads that would keep my Family's home safe during any Raging Forest Fire! Make certain all power cannot be interupted to the water pump in the event of fires.
Another issue for those of us who live in California and near these fires is the air becomes unbreathable even if you live 100 miles away. And it can go on and on for months. It’s enough to make you want to move our of California. I’d take constant rain over these fire seasons that we’ve had for the past 5 years.
As an EMT who was for a time attached to a volunteer fire department, I can say you described them accurately. The bulk of them are really just trying to help and protect their neighbors. Good guys.
Glad to hear that it worked out ok and that you and your family are safe. My one and only brush with a wildfire came in November of 2018, 5 months after I had moved from Seattle to the town of Paradise CA. There was no chance to learn anything for the "next time" during that experience. The whole town was destroyed in a matter of hours. I had NO idea what I was dealing with and barely got out with only the clothes I was wearing. I lost everything I owned and at 51 years old had to start again from nothing. Brutal, but it could have been worse. Almost 90 people lost their lives that day. RIP to those unfortunate souls.
Nice video and good to here the positive result, reminds me of our experience almost a year ago in Santa Cruz. I made a couple of videos here on yt for memories sake. It's tough to go through personally, it's tougher to see the effect on the neighborhood and the people, the aftermath is seemingly never ending and the recovery work exhausting.
We live in NorCal and got tired of being caught off guard. After 2 years of evacuations we bought a retired wild land fire engine and got training from our local fire department. We can now stand our ground and fight a wildfire threatening our rural property.
I live nearby- when I saw the smoke while coming back from out of town, I instantly thought of your family, and hoped everyone was safe and out of the fire's way! Four months early is indeed scary….
I remember the 2003 cedar fire like it was yesterday. I had woken up for an unknown reason and had seen a quarter of the nearest hill side not even less than a mile away from my house fully ingulfed in flames. I immediately woke my family up and we left as soon as possible for my grandmas house a couple towns over. Quickly evacuation orders hit the area. I dont remember much fore I was little but I do remember the air quality made it super hard to breathe, which lasted months. I'll never forget that smell. Super glad your family and house is safe. Our house we built luckily survived as well.
Thanks to global warming and climate change. California's fire Armageddon is just a way of life now. One thing that really pissed me of about the fires is the could stop them. But the government won't give them the funding for the equipment they need. Even though the give away billions of our tax dollars to other nations and call it relief money. Where the hell is America's relief money. Look how many homeless are in LA now.
Why is YouTube not notifying this "Spirited Man" of new videos after I have clicked the notification bell? The algorithm is quick to take videos off deemed against guidelines but not notify of new videos? Fix this YouTube!
Dear Van,
I was watching a interview with Tom Sachs the other day where he explained 10 rules of filmmaking he shared with you. But in the video he only numbers 3 of the 10 rules. This spirited young man believes that these rules will help him in his journey to become a better filmmaker. Do you by any chance remember these rules?
– A Salvadoran Spirited Young Man