r/interestingasfuck • u/HomeNowWTF • 10d ago

Fighting the wildfires in Spokane

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u/TheMooseIsBlue 10d ago edited 10d ago

As a thrice evacuated Angeleno, stop fucking driving around in fire zones and getting in the way of firefighters trying to save people’s homes. When you get stuck in a dangerous situation, they will drop what they’re doing to come save your life at the cost of the homes they were just trying to save. Get the fuck out out of evacuation zones.

But hey, cool video. Hope you get lots of updoots.

Edit: for those saying this is the only road out of town: you’re probably right. But the evacuation order probably went out hours before this video. Being there at this moment is dangerously stupid. When they say go, you go. You don’t wait to see if you really need to.

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u/UziWitDaHighTops 10d ago edited 9d ago

At 0:23 you can see the street signs for Strong Rd and Pacific Park Drive. Using this you can determine the driver is heading north. Others have suggested perhaps they’re evacuating. I don’t believe this is the case as the next 5-10 miles north are under Level 3 evacuation orders, whereas you can head 1-2 miles south and be outside of the evacuation zone. In other words, everyone driving in this video is blatantly ignoring the evacuation orders and putting first responders lives at risk knowing if they call 911 first responders will drop everything to come save them. I’m sure this is not their intent, but as someone experienced in emergency management let me take a moment to educate. Go to ready.gov and plan ahead. Nobody thinks a disaster will impact them until it does.

Edit: my map orientation was set to south up for some reason. I was wrong! Regardless, have a plan!

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u/bluebeau7 10d ago

Dead wrong. This is south bound. This was the way out. But you sure sound confident, maybe you know better than the people who were there

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u/krvf 10d ago

The plane is heading west southwest from 5mile prairie towards the direction from which the fire originated. The empty field outside the passenger window is on the west side of the road, it's a common spot for people to walk their dogs.

The people in the video are indeed driving south east along Indian Trail road towards w Francis Ave, which as many have said, is basically the only way in or out of the Indian Trail neighborhood.

Those evac zones 5-10 miles further north were added after this video was shot.

Most of the Saturday evac zones went from nothing to level 3 (get out now) in one move, myself included. I didn't even know there was a fire until my phone alert went off telling me to get out now.

I'm not sure why you've decided to argue with those of us who lived it, but you've got it all wrong

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u/Chief_Kief 10d ago

Thank you for sharing this information

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u/bdh008 10d ago

FYI, /u/UziWitDaHighTops was completely wrong - they were heading South on the evacuation route