Boulder Creek and Bonny Doon, Calif., residents who stayed are reluctant to seek necessities outside their areas for fear of being unable to go home.
They couldn’t get help from the state. Or the feds. So volunteer firefighters in two Santa Cruz mountain towns tapped an elite network of emergency responders.‘We are essentially living in a mega fire era’: Two of California’s largest-ever fires continue to burn
He said he initially left his home when the evacuation orders were first issued, but came back two days later. Roughly a week later, the fire had died down to a smoky ground fire, but because the state’s firefighting resources were stretched thin across the Bay Area responding to multiple fires in multiple counties and regions, fewer firefighters were on the scene than would ordinarily be there., many felt compelled to stay and fight.
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff said that in just about every California wildfire, some people refuse to leave. On Saturday afternoon, Chris Fink, a pediatric gastroenterologist with Stanford Children’s Hospital, and Jonah Torres, a cannabis distributor, were driving around Bonny Doon — tending to evacuated neighbors’ gardens, yards and household needs.
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