How I Survived California’s Deadliest Wildfire | FRONTLINE Short Docs

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2. What a sweet girl

3. Fires are purposely started

4. I suppose once the fires are out completely people could rebuild but make sure houses were as fire-proof as possible and keep flammable vegetation to a minimum. Friend of mine built a house and cemented the outside of it and had a metal roof.

5. Its the Secret Society Elites depopulation agenda I believe. D.E.W.

6. Look up D.E.W. just like Maui fire.

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8. I was there, day turned into night and temperatures plummeted for a week. Everything was covered in thick a grey ash blanket, like a fresh winter storm that carried the bodies of your friends and neighbors. If I could imagine what a nuclear winter would be like, that was it.

9. She looked and saw his wheel chair in ashes and his charred remains sitting of what was him, his canteen he carried on the water spout, mustve been trying to get to it. Smh.

10. I’ll admit I was a bit overzealous when I first heard about these fires.
    I bought plane tickets, and flew down there to see the sequoia trees because honestly I thought they would all burn and I would never have the opportunity to touch or see them.
    Thankfully they are/were okay and while driving from the Hotel in San Francisco to the Trees I recorded 9 of the most vivid rainbows I had ever seen in the sky’s over Paradise.

11. Reason 13425 to not live in California

12. Thankyou for sharing your story jordan….i live in a forest in new Zealand so i appreciate your struggles
    Rest in peace pops❤

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14. Yeah, I live here in California (Sonoma County, to be exact) and it seems like year after year, there’s been a massive fire raging!

15. The story of Jordan Huff's grandfather is one of the saddest stories from the camp Camp Fire.

16. Definitely the existential threat of our entire world is the heating of the planet. I don't know when this film was made but there was also and still is currently a devastating ongoing fire in the Canada region.

17. 3:10 – 3:55 Uummmmmm Maybe you(yall) shouldn't of been so nosey an got outta dodge instead young lady !! ?? I mean you said you wanted to go see what was going on??WHY?🤯🤔🤦‍♂️🤨🤔🤨😩😳😳😱😱..Thats called F.A.A.F.O. ( FAFO ) …SOO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS GOD BLESS you amd everyone So sad But please Gtfo of anything next time if it looks dangerous This isnt a video game and mother nature is something u never EVER play with! Lightning strikes east south Texas and Florida like every day literally weve seen it hit houses trees people Everywhere everyone who grew up in Florida we dont play we go inside and get down it will come through the windows and hit all electronics t.v.s phones showers etc… hurricane too thunderstorms 90 days a year almost Love to you and everyone..But dont watch the movies theres no savior all the time thank god it rained or else …………

18. I'm a Bay Area native, and I remember those times when wildfires swept across the state, turning the sky orange like some place out of Mars or the Sahara. The ash was very fine, almost like dust or gunpowder, and I was a little nervous about what it could do to my lungs if I stayed out too long. There was one night when I read or heard that 11 lightning strikes caused around 367 fires across the whole state of California. That was a little over one fire for each and every day of the year. I reckoned mother nature rarely caused a phenomenon like that, but that it was a demonstration of the "Hell" we were in, or was yet to come. It was certainly a once in a lifetime experience. The real irony is that I recently found out some people intentionally cause wildfires, or what they describe as "control burns," to naturally recycle dry and dying vegetation/material, so it doesn't accumulate and cause a risk of an even worse wildfire. The work being done to curb climate change is important, but it also means walking a fine line between environmental worker and arsonist. I am no expert, but I do understand that fires do not just happen under anyone's blind watch. Mark my words. Somebody had to know.

19. How about instead of complaining about climate change, we actually implement practical solutions to prevent disasters like these? Anyone who's studied even the smallest bit of environmental science knows nature doesn't turn on a dime, yet people have this delusion that we can stop/reverse it within the next decade or two. Even if we could suddenly flip it like a lightswitch, are we really that naive to think there wouldn't be any negative consequences?

20. Brutal

21. Poor forest management, failure from the power company, and other issues create this not climate change.

22. This is only the beginning.

23. I too was there, on the far side of Paradise, at 11am, it was as dark as midnight! Took my wife, her sister and myself 2 1/2 hours to get out of town, down to Chico, normally a 20 minute drive! The entire block was a total loss, except for 1 house! TOTALLY UNTOUCHED! Not even the grass was singed! Sadly the town lost so many people in the fire.

24. Jordan Huff, you will go on to do great things and make Pops really proud, as he smiles down at you from Heaven. I just saw this and it was a horrible tragedy, but a superb documentary.❤

25. Excellent video. Jordan has a strong presence and spoke for so many families who are experiencing natural disasters everywhere.

26. Unfortunately the mainstream media's aren't telling this beautiful ladies story. Our current administration's is a disgrace. God bless her always guide and protect her future in Jesus name we pray Amen. Our thoughts and prayers are with you sweetie. 🙏

27. earth is coming back at us ..

28. Climate change didn’t do this. Putting out every single fire as fast as they could for decades did this. The fuel for this fire was built up to feed a Maelstrom, and all it took was a dry spell and some wind, and maybe a lightning strike. It was like lighting a match to a powder keg!

29. And let's not forget poor forest management as the real reason there was so much fuel just waiting for a poorly managed PG&E power line to break and fall on it. Climate change was not the reason for these fires. Poor to non-existent forest management by the Forest Service was the real reason. It's just easier to blame it on something much bigger than to take responsibility for all those deaths and loss of property.

30. one of my good friends moved up to redding after her house burned down in paradise, ill always remember those calls and that day. My dad was on one of the helicopters that went in
    for cal-fire

31. Man

32. AWWWWWW

34. What a day 😢

35. Wow, I'm glad that she survived. I'm sorry about her grandfather.

36. thats a hard loss. hopefully she has the guidance to process it. wondering tho – since there is a collective agreement the fires are getting worse: where are the advancements in fire fighting technology? great to hear young people are engaged in advocacy, but there seems to be a more urgent need. how are we preparing to battle the pressing issue?

37. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

38. Not Climate Change, D.E.W.’s. Israel is going to use them on Gaza, let’s see if it looks similar.

39. I have family that lived in Paradise and I used to live in Chico (the town next door) so I spent A LOT of time there before the fire. As beautiful as paradise was, it was always a disaster wating to happen. Most towns in the forest are surrounded by the forest paradise was literally IN the trees, with very few fire breaks. It was on a ridge with essentially 2 ways in or out. It's also in an area that naturally funnels winds and increases the wind's speed while decreasing it's humidity. That's not even mentioning that a large portion of the population was retirees, and not as effective at self-rescue as a result. I could continue to name dozens of "small" things that combined to create a perfect storm.

40. This poor little lady. I'm so sorry for your loss.

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