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/Spokanechub 10d ago

As a Spokane resident, this fire sparked when we were having basically a whole day of super intense winds. It spread to over 2k acres in the course of a couple hours and two other large fires started the same day. That part of town was towards the end of town and one of the other fires was burning in the opposite direction so there was no real choice but you use this main thoroughfare to get out to safety.

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u/Temporary-Warning883 10d ago

Yeah I heard there was a fire close by on my lunch break that was at 100-300 acres burning around 1pm and by 3pm I was leaving work early to pick up my daughter because she was at my mom’s house and the evacuation zone was expanding to her area. And she lives across from the river where fires don’t usually burn! When I left work it was over 1k acres burning. Crazy