Fire in Paradise

This was an amazingly done documentary on how quickly devastation can happen. I applaud all survivors and am amazed at all the volunteer efforts. The emergency crews were amazing and I hope to see a second part on the rebuilding of Paradise

Towards the end of the documentary I saw a skeleton in a car, but it may not have been real. To my knowledge, all cadavers were removed as soon as they were found. Nobody was allowed back into Paradise until everything had been inspected, which took a couple of months. If they were joking about the skeleton being there, it was in very poor taste.

Rarely is the bad thing about a documentary that its too short, but in this case it felt like the story was cut off quite abruptly. A well made doc though, compelling story and relevant interviews.

The recent fire in California and subsequent blackout is another scary reminder that we cannot grow jaded about the increasingly destructive consequences of climate change.

This short was effective, timely, and just an overall terrifying presentation of what those poor people went through during the Camp Fire. Mad respect to all the fire fighters, first responders, and even the researchers and scientists out there trying to sort this mess out.

At least this is not as bad as the widely debunked frontline which cast around for blame ignoring the science.

The science clearly shows that long term severe drought and major wildfires have been endemic in California history for hundreds of thousands of years. since the last glacial maximum the numbers of fires in California for thousands of years, and before that, before the last glacial period massive drought and endemic wildfires occurred regularly for hundreds of thousands of years.

The only thing making that worse today is the massive over-development of California. Specifically massive development into fire prone areas where soil sample strata show there were regular wildfires all along.

Oh "record setting" damage to property and loss of life? ONLY because of the record setting population and record setting amount of real estate where there once was none.