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PARADISE, Calif. — Thousands of residents in the wooded town of Paradise did what they were told to do when the morning skies turned dark and an inferno raged across the hills:
They got in their cars and fled. What happened next was the vehicular equivalent of a stampede, packing the roads to a standstill.
#WoolseyFire [update] Repopulation Oak Park and North Ranch pic.twitter.com/RiFDmUm1ea— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) November 12, 2018
#WoolseyFire [update] Repopulation Thousand Oaks Area pic.twitter.com/Q7lOeL6lAb— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) November 12, 2018
In
the hours after the devastating wildfire broke out around Paradise on
Thursday morning, tree-lined streets in the town swiftly became tunnels
of fire, blocked by fallen power lines and burning timber. Frantic
residents, encircled by choking dense smoke and swirling embers, ran out
of gas and ditched their cars. Fire crews struggling to reach the town
used giant earthmovers to plow abandoned vehicles off the road as if
they were snowdrifts after a blizzard.
Source: NYT
Source: NYT
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