I watched this body cam video from Northern California fires and it's pretty intense watching the fires and embers heading towards the windows and over the top of the police car as he barely escapes the fire with his life. Remember, gasoline has 7 times the explosive power of Dynamite and he is driving through a fire.
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Sonoma County Sheriff
A Sonoma County Sheriff’s deputy shared a harrowing video of
himself and other deputies responding to the Tubbs Fire as it ripped
through a residential area on Sunday.
Filmed on his body camera and shared by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s
Department, the footage provides a terrifying look at what those caught
in the multiple wildfires currently burning in Northern California face.
WARNING VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC LANGUAGE
With embers and smoke filling the air and fire appearing like it is
in every direction, the officer and his colleagues run door to door
trying to evacuate people.
In the darkness, he spots another deputy dragging the woman out from a burning house.
“We have a house on fire, you gotta get her out. You gotta get her
out,” a deputy calls out as flames engulf a home in Sonoma County.
“She’s disabled… her husband is right behind you,” a deputy yells. “Sir! You gotta go!”
The deputy coughs consistently throughout the video and swears as the heat becomes unbearable, even in his patrol car.
Toward the end of the video, a line of cars is seen evacuating, with the deputy yelling, “GO! GO! GO! DRIVE!”
“This is a video of one deputy’s rescue efforts the first night of
the Tubbs Fire,” the department’s Facebook page read. “While it’s only
one deputy’s video, it is representative of all the deputies who helped
evacuate people that night. ” JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty
At least 36 people have died in the wildfires that have been burning across Northern California since Sunday, according to CNN. It’s now the deadliest week for wildfires in the state’s history.
Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in
several counties as the fires, which began on Sunday, swept through
Northern California and urged Donald Trump to declare an official state
of disaster to support local relief efforts.
“In less than 24 hours, more than 18 fires began burning in at least
seven counties and have collectively burned more than 80,000 acres,”
Brown wrote in a statement.
The fires continued well into Tuesday and Brown said that the flames
grew so rapidly that residents had little time to leave their homes and
flee to temporary shelters. He added that officials expect the number of
deaths, as a result of the fire, to grow.
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