100s Trapped In Town As Park Fire Explodes Thousands Of Acres
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Published 2024-07-27
INCIDENT DATE/TIME: 7.24.24 | 9 PM
LOCATION: Upper park rd. and upper bidwell park
AREA/CITY: Chico
DETAILS:
The Fire known as the Park incident has exploded to thousands of acres in just a few hours.
100s of vehicles and residents are now trapped and cut off from evacuating down Cohasset rd, where the fire has overtaken the exit route out of town, and residents and vehicles are sheltering in place under the protection of first responders.
The fire started around 3 PM this afternoon as a small grass fire. After an hour, it exploded to over 2,000 acres, starting from the Chico Valley and running all the way into the foothills.
A video was taken from Cohasset Rd as we tried to access the community of Cohasset, but the fire completely blocked us from continuing to progress.
Fire resources are bravely attempting to drive through the flames wall and access the town.
Incident command is talking about the possibility of ordering National Guard helicopters to possibly start evacuating people by air from the heli-base at the top of Cohasset
More details and videos are coming.
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All Comments (21)
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Everyone please pray for help with the fire and the safety of the people!
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Prayers for all affected by this horrendous fire.🙏🙏
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Omg how terrifying. My love is with these poor folks... the firefighters, and all the innocent animals... it looks like how I imagine hell. 😢
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Thoughts and prayers to all who are affected... not just the humans, but think of all the poor animals. The man who started this needs to be locked up for life.
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Growing in Malibu as a kid in the 50's ... am still feeling traumatized by huge fire storms like this!
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This is as good of a representation of the term "FIRESTORM" as I have ever seen.....SOBERING!!!
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My neck of the woods. I'm not liking summertime like i used to. To much devastation. My Neiborhood burned up in the Carr fire ,my whole street burned up except my house and a few others. Had survival guilt when my neighbors of 25 years were gone.
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I've read that if the fire's big enough and sucking in enough oxygen, there are situations where your car won't run because of lack of oxygen. Shit's serious. Get out as EARLY as you can!
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Omg this is scary as hell. God bless those firefighters.
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Father lay your hands around this fire and around the town and the people in Jesus name Amen
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My hats off to you brave men and women that go out and fight these massive fires that is just insane it must be really exhausting and hot 👍👍
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Horrific ... endless prayers to firemen and all residents
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You should never stand uphill from a fire like that. Very dangerous.
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Damn that sucks. Condolences from Vermont.
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My thoughts and prayers go out to the families, communities, wildlife, and the brave firefighters battling these devastating wildfires. 🙏🙏 - "The Earth is not just our environment. We are the Earth, and the Earth is us. We have always been one with the Earth." - Thich Nhat Hanh
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Those winds are not helping matters.
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Wow that is nasty wildfire. Hope everyone survived and is safe. Hellish inferno I would not want to be caught in for sure . Be safe first responders ❤❤❤
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ONSCENE TV IN MY COUNTY!!!! NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE SEEN THE DAY
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Not one word spoken on as to the location of the trapped people. Paradise? Magalia. sterling City? Chico?
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You can hear how strong the wind is. That makes it almost impossible to fight this fire. Terrible. It's like a raging beast sent from hell.
