Santa Rosa Fires: Stunning Aerial Video Showing Burned Homes in Fountaingrove
Drone footage of fire damage in Santa Rosa | Los Angeles Times
Wildfire Reduces Whole Santa Rosa Neighborhood To Rubble
This is one of the few homes that didn't burn in the Oakland Fire of 1991. Why is that? Look at all the large trees, RIGHT NEXT to this property. You'd think THIS house would have burned terribly, but it didn't. Shouldn't we be studying this?
Source: https://abc7news.com/oakland-hills-fire-anniversary-deadly/1040671/
Source: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/24/1195331310/red-roof-house-fires-lahaina-hawaii
(Hector America | The Sacramento Bee via AP) In this March 19, 2019 photo, an aerial image shows the home of Sean and Dawn Herr, bottom center, in Paradise, Calif. The Herr home, built in 2010 to new fire-resistant building standards, survived the fire while nearby homes burned.
Before
After
Buildings were destroyed in the Fountaingrove area of Santa Rosa. Before: Google Street View; After: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Despite clear risks, Santa Rosa neighborhood that burned down was exempt from state fire regulations
Poll: Most Sonoma County residents didn't get official fire warnings
Most of those warned of the firestorm found out from friends, family members and neighbors, according to The Press Democrat Poll.
Few Sonoma County residents received official alerts telling them about the approaching October firestorm and many received no advance warning at all, according to The Press Democrat Poll.
Those who were warned more often found out about the unfolding natural disaster from friends, family members and neighbors, according to respondents in the telephone poll, which surveyed 500 registered Sonoma County voters in the first week of May.
Nonetheless, more than half of those surveyed in the poll said they feel the county is better prepared to warn them about disasters now than it was last year. And a majority of respondents - 59 percent - also said county officials provided effective leadership during the first week of the fires, which in Sonoma County destroyed nearly 5,300 homes and killed 24 people.
The poll results reinforce concerns local residents have voiced since the earliest part of the disaster, when many had to flee their homes in the middle of the night without any kind of advance notice from government officials or law enforcement.
At the same time, the survey indicates many agree with the steps county leaders have taken over the past seven months to address the failure in emergency warnings and improve dispatch operations that were unprepared for the unprecedented disaster.
“When you look at these sorts of things and you go through a disaster as severe as what happened in the county, you might expect a lot of anger or unhappiness with the general institutions,” said David Binder, whose San Francisco firm conducted the poll on the newspaper's behalf. “When you see like 60 percent of the county saying yes, they provided effective leadership, that impresses me as being a really positive finding.”
This video shows a house that managed to sustain the fire in 2017, but it caught fire (internally) in 2024. Never forget, fire is an unforgiving beast. Don't let your guard down!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgV1N1MMCaw
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