Aftermath of the fire in Santa Rosa, CA (175k population) looks like a bomb went off
Aftermath of the fire in Santa Rosa, CA (175k population) looks like a bomb went off
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Aftermath of the fire in Santa Rosa, CA (175k population) looks like a bomb went off
thats a big bomb
Absolutely devistating. I live a block south of the Santa Rosa evac zone. I consider myself very lucky for not losing my home.
The fire is still 0% contained, here is the current location of the fires on the map. There are quite a few fires in the area at the moment.
https://i.imgur.com/xlfrKgs.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/OUyQyG1.png
This is so terrible. I hope they get it under control soon. What are some local organizations to which we can donate to help?
This is total destruction, I can’t believe it.
Holy fuck
Looks like the aftermath of an A bomb except the trees would be flattened
It’s so sad. There are too many horrible things going on in the world
Before and after: https://i.imgur.com/CZ5POOF.jpg
I don’t understand how it looks like so many trees weren’t touched in the first half of the video. Does it just look like that from this perspective and the trees are burnt or do the houses catch easier or something?
My brother has lived there for almost 15 years. Shit out of control. Luckily his home still stands. His band recently got back together, they have a big show next Monday, but they’re scared all of their gear was lost to the fire. If the practice space still stands there’s a high possibility looters got to it since it’s in the evac zone. Hoping for the best for everyone there.
I bet it was hotter than a motherfucker up near it. Props to all the wildland guys out there.
I live in the peninsula and had no idea it was that bad, i kept imagining forests on fire, not suburbs. Absolutely Crazy.
This looks like fallout 4. Same color gradient and everything.
It’s mind-blowing to me how little attention this is getting on reddit. ~~15~~ 17 people have already been confirmed dead and thousands of structures are damaged or destroyed. inb4 “there are always fires in California” – this is not a normal fire.
This will be on North Korean news in a couple days. (Nuclear strike on The United States very successful!)
Just unreal..
Was this area considered at high risk for this kind of uncontrolled fire? It doesn’t look like the kind of area where decades of fire-
suppression practices have resulted in a huge supply of brush/dead branches.
I apologize if this is an obvious question to those who live in the area. I’m from New England where we don’t have these types of terrains.
Thanks.
The audio is throwing me
Thank you
Smelled burning wood sunday night, thought nothing of it, its kind of the season for fires. Went to work monday morning and wiped ash off of my motorcycle…I live 40 miles south. Knew something was bad then.
Can someone explain why the houses have almost 100% burned, like were they made entirely of wood???
The eerie part to me is that the trees are still standing tall… there is nothing but say I’m so sorry for everyone’s loss! Stay safe I hope you have the strength to move on!
Top comment on youtube is golden.
It does look like a bomb. Are there no brick houses in this area of the country (maybe because of possible earthquakes)?
In my mind I think of cities as being very safe places from firestorms, but in reality I think it’s primarily due to better fire prevention… when a widespread fire gets started very little separates us from the disasters of the old San Francisco and Chicago fires.
Holy Shit
Sorry Santa Rosa, you threw our budget out of whack.
-tosses water bottles at them-
Fallout 5: Santa Rosa
So do insurance companies even cover all this stuff or do they weasel their way out?
Did you have permission to fly in the TFR?
Please don’t fly drones in active fire zones. They endanger firefighting aircraft.
So what is the likely hood of this being arson? I’ve seen it mentioned before on posts related to this incident and it just adds up
Fallout 4 anyone?
It is illegal to operate drones near fires because it interferes with fire fighting operations.
Example:
https://qz.com/1024530/firefighters-are-getting-increasingly-frustrated-with-drones/
>It’s wildfire season in the US, and fire departments are issuing pleas to hobbyists to stop flying their drones anywhere near the blazes. **When a drone is in the sky, firefighting planes and helicopters are grounded or kept away, because a collision could be disastrous**. More than a dozen hobby drones—sent up by their owners in the hope of capturing spectacular video—have already caused problems at fire sites this year.
>**“Very simply put: If you fly, we cannot fly”** Tony Mecham, chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s San Diego unit told a local newspaper.
Although the video is interesting you are putting lives in danger. Please stop.
What happens if you live in a house like the one at .18 sec? There are few houses around you. But little infrastructure remaining for you to live with, stores, limited utilities i expect etc… Would your insurance company expect you to continue living there, just because your house is still standing? Or do they compensate you for having a house, but not being able to live in it?
https://imgur.com/x8y0q17 My souvenir from the hotel I worked at.
My friend lives there. He said the fire stopped half a block from his house. The smoke is just as bad and he has a small child. Thousands of people displaced. Homes, memories, everything they ever owned gone. my friend was lucky but so many others were not.
This sounds like CHP Pilot Pete Gavitte, who was also interviewed on KTVU Channel 2 news. I was lucky enough to have him as an instructor when I went through Medic school, amazing individual.
Best of luck to him and all the other pilots out there.
Isn’t this the scene from blade runner 2049?
Just fyi, the whole town is not like this. Some of my family in the area lost their homes, but others are okay.
Scrolling past, I first thought this was a video from r/gaming about Fallout 4.
Makes me want to play fallout. Pls excuse the insensitivity. It’s more of a compliment to the developers for their accuracy, agreeing with OP that it looks like some sort of nuclear wasteland. Very unfortunate…
my parents lived there 🙁
DO NO FLY DRONES IN ACTIVE FIRE AREAS.
It keeps fire air operations grounded.
If this is a legal flight then disregard, but I see no indication that it is.
Edit: According to my understanding of the TFR, for the ongoing air fire ops, there is no restriction to this part of the city. http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_7_0544.html
Wow. I’m on a military base in Petaluma, and I thought this fire was just “normal”. For the last two day the sun has been blocked out partially with a severe China level of smog covering the place for miles and miles. We actually took in some people but I thought they were over reacting. Damn.
Here’s video taken from a sheriff’s helicopter the first night of the fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmAmxkTdElo
It shows these houses on fire. Truly horrific.
Absolutely insane
its amazing look of from sky …
Unbelievable. 🙁
Why are the trees still standing and green? Not a provacational question, more of an asksciene question.
I live here in santa rosa right on the edge of where the evacuation zone is. Theyre setting curfew at 7pn til 7am. We’ve put buckets if water outside our house and are constantly watering the house down. Winds are supposed to be picking up tonight so we’ll see how the night goes.
They are asking people not to fly drones… OP….Fly’s drone
If you want to get a sense of the destruction, go [to this google maps link](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38°28'15.9“N+122°44’51.0″W/@38.4683114,-122.7465874,121a,35y,349.5h,64.16t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d38.4710762!4d-122.7474987) and follow along with the drone. Scroll up until Coffey Park is on your right, and stop over Kerry Lane.
Why did all the houses burn to the ground but yet so many trees are still there like nothing ever happened?
Am from Northern California and I can strongly seem the smoke from far as Santa Rosa. So unreal.
Lol le bild r hose in the prety forest! WCGW?
wow amazing video thanks Doomsby…fuck the haters
From a perspective of a foreigner. Does nobody construct in concrete? Just curious.
This is my home, we had to be evacuated at 2am on Monday morning and we left with our animals and nothing else. It took us an hour just to get out of our neighborhood because everyone was trying to get out. The devastation is indescribable, what was once a beautiful wine country town is a leveled pile of ash. We were lucky, the fire avoided our house by a block, but the whole neighborhood next to mine is gone. My best friend lost her house, many people I know are missing, getting around town is impossible.. it’s going to be a long time before Santa Rosa is able to recover from this.
Fallout 4 screenshot.
It is a fucking tragedy and the loss of life and property is horrific. I look at those homes and think “what if that was my family?” There’s a lot of rebuilding to do and while “thoughts and prayers” are great, you can also [send a letter to Congress](http://m.me/resistbot) demanding that they take the funding of the cleanup and reconstruction seriously.
But part of the problem is California building codes. See that undergrowth between the trees? That’s chaparral — it’s the wildland fire equivalent of oil soaked rags. It’s why fires in California are always so damaging. California could mandate a minimum distance between uncleared brush and residential structures and dramatically reduce the fire risk in these neighborhoods but, so far, that’s been a political non-starter.
Trump needs to get there with some paper towels QUICK!