Fire in Paradise

I watched this short film about the devastating "Camp Fire" in Paradise, CA on Netflix. Some of the footage in this is just amazing. In this day and age with everyone recording things on their cell phones, it amounts to some scary footage of people literally driving through flames as they try to escape to safety. It's terrifying, and it shows exactly how fast a wildfire can get out of control and why we need to enact climate and environmental policies to try to stop this horrible trend in which wildfires are getting worse and worse each year. My heart breaks for the people of Paradise and other people who have had their lives turned upside down by wildfires. This documentary does a good job of painting a picture of that day - how everything went from normal to horrific but in mere minutes.

Rarely is the bad thing about a documentary that its too short, but in this case it felt like the story was cut off quite abruptly. A well made doc though, compelling story and relevant interviews.

Watch this - for the humanity a fire like this touches. It's a well made documentary that sensitively covers the beginning, middle and end of this terrible fire.

Every US citizen should watch this, so they know what to prepare for, as climate change continues.

In Australia, it's our annual reality since 2019/20 summer.

This could be their annual reality too, soon..

At least this is not as bad as the widely debunked frontline which cast around for blame ignoring the science.

The science clearly shows that long term severe drought and major wildfires have been endemic in California history for hundreds of thousands of years. since the last glacial maximum the numbers of fires in California for thousands of years, and before that, before the last glacial period massive drought and endemic wildfires occurred regularly for hundreds of thousands of years.

The only thing making that worse today is the massive over-development of California. Specifically massive development into fire prone areas where soil sample strata show there were regular wildfires all along.

Oh "record setting" damage to property and loss of life? ONLY because of the record setting population and record setting amount of real estate where there once was none.

I was tearing up the whole time. It's a heartbreaking point of view from a few victims caught in the horrific "camp fire" fire. There's videos from phones and dash cans and I was on the edge of my seat and tearing up. I definitely recommend watching this.