I am sure sirens would have worked just fine. (I lived in Paradise. I escaped with nothing but my life and my cat.)

They can text everyone for a missing child's amber alert (and we didn't sign up for that) but they can't do it for fires? There is no excuse for that

Alarms should have gone off not text messages not for a natural disaster of any kind period!!!

A text message, what a waste of time and lives, sure they can probably read it but if they're anything like my dad their phones wouldn't be turned on during the night, some kind of siren would've worked better

Really should’ve been a siren system similar to a tornado siren

There's a strong message here about preparedness, self sufficiency, and gutsy determination of able bodied people. When these urban / forest interfaces go up, don't depend on the firemen to come save you or your house - they're completely overwhelmed and will be focused on evacuations. It's up to you to have a plan, make a stand or flee.

Its heartbreaking😥😥😥

Who runs the town of Paradise? What have they been doing, when there have been so many fires in California and nothing has been done to protect the citizens of Paradise, not even a proper warning system. This smells like something that needs to be investigated by the State government. I live on the East coast, but I am angry, and also very sad. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. This is unnatural and unacceptable.

This is by far and away the finest piece of journalism I’ve seen so far in the aftermath of the fire. Well done in script, photography, editing, content. Amazingly well done.

Why doesn't the local government have a better system...people shouldn't have to sign up. They should have an alarm system, just like any other normal state. This is a case of total neglect of the taxpaying citizens of Paradise. There should be a class-action suit. No one has contacted this poor young woman, who can't find her disabled mother, after making several calls for help and being told she is just one of many, as though they have no concern. Can this really be the USA? It sounds more like a horror movie about a fictional town in a fictional country. WTF.

Stay alert, don't wait for anyone to risk their life's to knock at your door to warn ⚠ you about the dangers

Thank you. I appreciate this coverage as it gave a true picture as to what Paradise is, or was, like. "There's a reason it was called Paradise".

I have been through floods which are bad, but it isn't anything like wildfires. I really feel bad for those who had died and those who lost everything in the firestorm.

SMART METERS ON EVERY HOME SET FIRES TO EVERY HOME

My Prayers for the People

Great video/interview.

This is certainly a good report.

Only a text message warning? Wow. That's such an inadequate system. Not only are the old people who wouldn't be subscribed to such system, but you don't always notice your text messages immediately. Why not a warning siren, and a TV AND social media campaign to teach people the "Evacuate immediately" signal?

This is only just the beginning bring back the bible.

Heartbreaking 😢

So very sad. Fire and water are so strong and so uncomfortable. Thoughts n prayers all your way

We cannot expect a government to make up for common sense. I used to look around Feather River Canyon and think "How would they stop it?" The answer... They could not. During the Saddle Fire I asked my co-workers if they were concerned as our house was just one zone away from being called. They laughed and said "In 2008 they came around and told us to evacuate." I said "Yes, but the fire marshal said on TV yesterday it is your responsibility to know your zone...if you expect them to come tell you, this is someone who is supposed to be fighting the fire." People were still waiting for their government to help them and this time even with horns people WOULD have died. It was that fast. No elderly person without a car who uses a walker or wheelchair would have had time or been alert enough to evacuate. This one was the unthinkable and people thought their government would not let this happen. Even with more strict measures in place sometimes common sense is required. The girl's mother perished in the fire. She could not MAKE mom get in the car. Will she carry guilt and shame for the rest of her life? Should she have died too?

I live in Butte County and I'm a bit surprised, but glad that the foreign press is reporting on this so thoroughly.

Lately it seems like things are becoming the worst in history. I live in Puerto Rico and went through hurricanes Irma and Maria. And Maria was one of the worst in history. And all the California fires and it's one of the worst in history. Lord have mercy on us.

Heartbreaking

Rest In Peace :( Who is responsible for the warning and alert systems?

David Wilcock explains why

America, get your soldiers protecting your home in your home, not messing others home.

Wodka Polska that what you hawe on your T - shirt .Best Regards from Poland.

Prayers🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Why didn't those.people clean up under the trees around there own house

"bone dry forest"? the trees are the only things standing...

Americans should feel how hurtful the lost house.

Do they not evacuate people in the United States we have a bunch of wildfires here in Canada and we evacuated community that would even close to the fires

Paradise lost! RIP

WÓDKA POLSKA on his shirt says everything

How is a evacuation system effective if you have to sign up for it? How avout very old people? Neglect those planners have blood on their hands

I was wondering why many died...this explains it...elderly ppl..

A loud Siren is what ... amt of MONEY?? thats the best way!-

Why is nobody looking at the initial fire starting? Satalite footage etc? I've seen it online it looks fishy to me.. Just sayin

Why is everything burnt Except the Trees and Plants?

In the 50 years that I have been watching the news, it has gotten so much more of a rightward slant. BBC is a public broadcasting statement but despite being funded by the public, their point of view is that of the management huge corporations. You can tell that by the way she blames " Forest management.". Forest management has not changed enough to explain this. The forest have changed with climate change but that turned out not to be the main problem in this case. Pacific gas and electric took hundreds of millions of dollars in profit and let maintenance of their power lines and transformers filed by the wayside. The paradise fire was started by a faulty transformer exploding and throwing out Sparks in an inaccessible part of a deep canyon near Paradise. The fact that Pacific gas and electric, an entirely private company, was left to regulate itself thanks to 30 years of Reaganomics. They decided it was more important to take massive profits than to maintain their power lines. Considering all the pain and damage they cost all these people, they got off rather lightly. They had to play guilty to 84 count of manslaughter and paid out much less thanwww.cbsnews.com/news/pg-e-pleads-guilty-manslaughter-paradise-california-fire-84-counts/ it cost their victims.

Are we really going to sit back and let the powers that be do this to the American people? 2nd amendment was put there to stop criminality like this. These fires are deliberate and it's time to step up people. We have got to get organized and come together. Does anybody have any suggestions. It's freaking time people!

Power cruise let in???? Why too clean up the mess pg an e made

Please people ask God for forgiveness of all your sins and God will forgive us as we ask for forgiveness of our sins. And not just those in California but all of us all over the United states, and all over the world. We all need to ask God for forgiveness of making gay marriage legal and abortion, God changes not . I love you all and my heart goes out to you all .

End times. Jesus reigns.

How are the bushes and trees still standing but the cars have no glass??

What a joke.. texting people? sirens might have been a better idea.

Unbelievable how it spread so fast! I wonder which home caught fire first since it appears to have only burnt the buildings? if it was a forest fire then why does the canopy still look the same? strange.

It is being done on purpose.

they are in the trees now... I'm not talking hocus pocus disney fairytails... the fire turned them to ash and the rains came and washed them into the soil of the forest.... this isn't magic... its physics... they are in the trees...

OK people we need to take a stand n rise up in California we are in this together no matter wher we are in Ca. I'm in LA and I stand with Paridise,Santa Rosa,Carr,100%Malibu,San Diego, Readding stand up people

There was no warning! Its utter bullshit that people had to "sign up" to get a warning. PGE can text us the two days before the fire, they can make an incident report @630 am about a spot fire that eventually grew to the point it burned the whole town, but they can't text us to GTFO let's say around 830 am????

The houses are obliviated! are dust! And the trees are still standing!? This was an orchestrated burnout

So sad!!! How come the homes burned down but not the trees????? Whats up with that.???? Something is very wrong here!

Just look at that green bush by that reporter still surviving.

Greece is also burning just like this campfire people trap and being burned alive , so you cant tell me that this is all a accident all the fires in Calif were and are accidental? Before midterms just a few small fires after the midterms there were 7 major fires all in residential areas !

WHAT ? you had to sign up to get a text to be warned about a fire are you kidding ? they are paid employees by the people for this very reason and that is to go and HELP in what ever manner it takes. No you are with out excuse for helping the deaths of these people there is no excuse for your lack of humanity and you woman are just as if not more guilty then the ones that refuse to help. WHY ? Because you continue to perpetuate these lie's knowing what really took place. Evil compounds Evil !

Never Call emergency services before making sure you & your family are safe it will give you a false sense Security and will compell you to wait for a Help which might never come When hundreds or thousands of people are in the same position and also made emergency calls its unlikely underfunded emergency services with only a few vehicles will prioritize You , or will be will willing to dri ve thrue fire to save you 👉

California isn't a paradise.

WÓDKA POLSKA!

Over 1000

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What's with this woman's eyes at 10 seconds, and that weird worm thing on her left cheek?

This was a planned genocide . The fires were not normal or naturally created. Covert exotic weaponry was employed. Several have captured video of strange beams pulsing down from the sky, this would be in keeping with the way Directed Energy weapon's lasers operate. The military has made no secret of the fact this technology exists and has even publicly demonstrated it, of course with the cover story that it was invented to destroy enemy missiles. Shills will debunk and ridicule this statement of mine, but the truth of it still stands and any unbiased inquiry into will lead the intelligent observer to the same conclusion.

From john lenon

i cant hepl but wonder, what if everyone in the whole neighborhood got all their hoses on if it would save the houses or the water pressure would be low?

Smart dust 😢

Very racist place you see how they vote, now they want prayers yeah ok. You see what TMH had to say about paradise.

BRAD WELDON HERO !!!!!!!!!

it's now 11/11

Climate warning,or warming.?

MURDER MURDER MURDER thats what this is DEW

People's are still brave bco after this painful experience they still live in California A lot of people's are living at California How to recover it may take a lot of money and energy the same thing may happen in future too

He stayed because of the weed he has inside is worth more than the house =/ you see how calm he is yup he is hi as fuk~How there was NO WARNING tells me that Cali hasn't learned a fuking thing from fires past maybe this will move there butts~Best report I have seen channel 4.

wow. Burnout Paradise City.

She left and left her Mum there wtf 🤦🏻‍♂️

Who want's to stay....it's like a grave yard!

WOW

Wódka Polska :D

No warning....yet I'm in Florida and knew how bad it was getting. Maybe you should get with the times of technology. Also, CA being the richest state in the US, since when?

Grandma did u like you Home before death.? We would never know.

I wonder to what extent a lot of this fire spread because residents chose to just leave and expected the government to deal with it - not saying they are at fault, but if this guy was able to fight off the inferno with two garden hoses, it really makes you wonder...

Direct Energy Weapons at its finest...

cars burnt from the inside out, no glass, yet trees and small trees with leaves totally untouched. hahaha. Looks like this reporter is also green screened into this scene. so embers fly and enter cars and hollow them out and don't touch flamable things like trees and leaves which is what a wildfire is supposed to be isnt it.

Your saying hundreds when for weeks it was 20-30..But now the Sheriff just released the list no one would let him until now over one thousand!!! A former frequent visitor to that town... and friend of many who suffer. and a Native of Ca who left in 2012... getting the hint SOMETHING was not right in this state. ????

In a country like usa shame on you president trump . Bigger better higher? Only the flames . Ifeel sad for the people😢

You want go to mosul & raqqa in Iraq that is very very burned by America's weapons & boms

That is what happens with Lasers and microwaves.

How do you evacuate living your mother behind? 🤔

There's no telling how many really died it could be thousands

Why are so many dead? Hm. No matter how you slice it it's when the people in charge can both do whatever they want and don't have to care about the people. They Purposefully wanted to slow traffic on an evacuation route for years. I imagine they thought it had been a while and it probably wasn't going to be a problem. Slow down traffic and people might stop more often and provide businesses with money. People who live there KNOW you the government switched the road from having several lanes it went to having two lanes on one side. And only one lane on the other side of the road. Maybe the missing list us so high because they don't want to admit the actual level of their choices. And then they'll say those people were killed by everyone else because of global warming. Yeah. More like CYA. For every person who died brutally in their vehicles the people in charge are their murderers.

Makes you wonder if everyone stayed they would have houses

KARMA..

Pushing that dna,using emotional security ploy.

California should have voted Republic also they should turn from their wicked ways quit trying take God out now they feel the full wrath.

KEEP CELEBRATING PAGAN FEASTS(THANKSGIVING, CHRITSMAS, NEW YEARS, ETC.,,), AND MORE FIRES MORE JUDGMENTS WILL COME THROUGH ALL USA AND THE WORLD! TORAH IS A MUST, NOT KABBALAH. SHALOM 132

The Americans beside grieving the disastrous Californian fire incidence they also should remember the Palestinians, Afghanistan, Iraq and other part of middle east countries that experience tremendous suffering from American merciless bombardment . At least now Americans understand what suffering means.