The Park Fire continued to burn aggressively due to steep terrain and winds. Extreme fire behavior has occurred due to the slope and winds aligning, causing significant growth,
Extreme fire conditions continue to challenge firefighters,
I’ve lost everything and I don’t care to stay and watch my town burn again,
My five-year-old wants to move away. My wife basically hyperventilates and can’t breathe because she’s afraid she’s gonna burn up,
It’s got us all riled up,
It’s hard. It’s hard to not know. Is this the end of it? We just need to be done with the fires,
It's going to be another dynamic day,
Firefighters in the field look out for one another. When harm falls on one, it is felt by all,
Today we've got almost three times the personnel we had yesterday morning,
I think I felt like I was in danger because the police had come to our house because we had signed up for early evacuation warnings, and they were running to their vehicle after telling us that we need to self-evacuate and they wouldn’t come back,
As evidenced by the (Park) fire to the West, some of these fires are just absolutely exploding and burning at rates of spread that it is just hard to even imagine,
That anyone could deliberately put our community through that again is incredibly cruel. I don’t understand it,
We are using every available tool to protect lives and property as our fire and emergency response teams work around the clock to combat these challenging fires,
I’m kind of worried, but not that much,
This fire has been rapidly expanding 4,000 to 5,000 acres an hour,
You have to be prepared to go,
The biggest challenge with this fire is getting to it,
The car went down an embankment approximately 60 feet and burned completely, spreading flames that caused the Park Fire,
In several hours, the #ParkFire exploded from a 400-acre fire to a more than 71,000-acre inferno consuming everything in its path,
The male was then seen calmly leaving the area by blending in with the other citizens who were in the area and fleeing the rapidly evolving fire."