(31 Jul 2024)
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Forest Ranch, 30 July 2024
1. Andrea Blaylock looks though a burned home
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Angeloni, Forest Ranch resident:
“With this fire we saw first smoke, the heavier smoke, then smoke traveling across this horizon which is the Cohasset Ridge, but we never saw flames but by the time we left the whole horizon was a glow just over the canyon the Cohasset ridge and it was intense fire."
3. People looking through a burned home
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher (right) and Anita (Left) Angeloni, Forest Ranch residents:
Anita: "All the neighbors just got together and we just went down, it was pretty shaky." Christopher: "It was shaky. It’s another one of those well will it be standing when we get back."
5. Burned appliances
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Angeloni, Forest Ranch resident:
"It is intense because we knew it was coming to this house and this neighborhood directly and it did."
7. Melted rim of car
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Angeloni, Forest Ranch resident:
"Defensible space in these hills is a life skill, for the well being of the neighborhood and your own property and is should be just thought of as a necessary thing we have to do to be up here."
9. Burned California license plate
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Angeloni, Forest Ranch residents:
"If the insurance company’s will let us stay well stay that our desire. Yes?"
Anita: "Mmhmm."
11. Burned car
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Vicki White, Forest Ranch resident:
"Before we evacuated on the end of the street I live on there was a real clear view towards that Cohasset Ridge and it was just unreal, the smoke and the you know huge pillars of smoke and how close then it was coming this direction. You know towards 32 so it was very scary"
13. Burned homes
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Vicki White, Forest Ranch resident:
"But in the very beginning we thought losing it all. We really did. I didn’t see how they could stop it, its a miracle. I’ll never. Thank Cal Fire and all these people doing this work its amazing."
15. Angelonis’ back yard with burned tress
16. Angelonis looking out their back porch
17. Various crews working fire
STORYLINE:
Fire crews worked Tuesday to hold on to the progress made against the largest blaze in California this year ahead of warming temperatures forecast for later this week.
Authorities said containment was 14% and lifted evacuation orders in some communities of Butte County, where the Park Fire started last week before spreading to a neighboring county and scorching an area bigger than Los Angeles. The massive fire continues to burn through rugged, inaccessible terrain with dense vegetation, threatening to spread to two other counties.
Cooler weather has helped firefighters stop the blaze’s path near some communities like Forest Ranch, where some people began returning to unscathed homes Tuesday.
Christopher and Anita Angeloni have lived in the community of 1,600 for 23 years and have had to evacuate several times due to wildfires, including the 2018 Camp Fire that killed 85 people and decimated the town of Paradise, about 8 miles (13 kilometers) south.
Christopher Angeloni said he constantly worked on creating defensible space around his home and was happy to return home nearly a week after evacuating to see his hard work paid off.
“We were prepared to possibly lose everything,” he said.
Anita Angeloni said it has been a stressful week.
(AP video by Ty ONeil)
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