12,500 houses and buildings + 5,000 other structures, likely hundreds more dead to be found.
The town is gone. What was the point of having emergency services?
Their job is to preplan for emergencies, including conflagrations that happen constantly, all over CA. Every part of CA needs to realize that your turn for complete destruction is coming.
Preplanning means looking for threats and having an evacuation plan to get everyone out, if needed.
I know of some residents that plan to return, collect their insurance, and rebuild. They say they don’t care if they are surrounded by the burnt down town with minimal stores for years.
I read my Bible, so I know you're right.
How about cutting the trees down?
Don’t live in a brush pile is also sound advice.
Location is everything
This whole city was a fire trap
This could never happen in Marin county
It did happen in Sonoma. Last year. Due to proximity to large tracts of unmanaged forests
In our county it’s mostky redwoods which don’t burn and there’s no underbrush
I feel for those folks. Been to paradise. Now Milton’s. Paradise lost