{"id":391339,"date":"2019-01-02T12:41:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T11:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-had-a-plan-for-a-wildfire-we-had-a-hydrogen-bomb\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T12:41:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T11:41:34","slug":"we-had-a-plan-for-a-wildfire-we-had-a-hydrogen-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-had-a-plan-for-a-wildfire-we-had-a-hydrogen-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Had a Plan for a Wildfire. We Had a Hydrogen Bomb\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An investigation into the deadly Camp Fire has revealed some of the planning errors that contributed to the wildfire\u2019s fatal devastation.<\/p>\n

At least 86 people died in November when the fire raged through Paradise,\u00a0California<\/a>, where four roads were the only evacuation route out for more than 38,000 residents.<\/p>\n

Now, an investigation published on Sunday by the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/a>\u00a0finds that Paradise officials ignored repeated warnings, did not have a plan to simultaneously evacuate the entire area, used a public alert system that could be compromised by fire, and failed to sound a citywide evacuation alert.<\/p>\n

Jim Broshears, the city\u2019s emergency management director during the fire and its former longtime fire chief, said that the fire was so out of control it was like dealing with a \u2018hydrogen bomb\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Let\u2019s all just be honest,\u2019 he told the newspaper. \u2018We didn\u2019t have a plan that addressed a fire that would be everywhere. \u2026 We had an evacuation plan built for a wildland fire. We had a hydrogen bomb. \u2026 We were so overmatched.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The Camp Fire started northeast of Paradise and spread at a rate of\u00a04,600 acres an hour<\/strong><\/p>\n

The report finds that Paradise had been given dire warnings several times, including in the\u00a02005 state fire management plan, which specifically warned of an \u2018east wind\u2019 fire driven by gusts through the canyons that surround the town on three sides.
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The plan also warned of \u2018a high potential for large damaging fires and loss of life and property\u2019 in the Concow Basin beside Paradise \u2013 the origin location of the Camp Fire.<\/p>\n

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An investigation into the deadly Camp Fire has revealed some of the planning errors that contributed to the wildfire\u2019s fatal devastation. At least 86 people died in November when the fire raged through Paradise,\u00a0California, where four roads were the only evacuation route out for more than 38,000 residents. Now, an investigation published on Sunday by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}