The Ugly Truth to the 2018 Camp Fire

The morning of November 8th, 2018 changed the town of Paradise, California forever. The 2018 Camp Fire was the deadliest and most destructive fire in California's extensive wildfire history, and it all started due to one company's negligence...

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[jmv]

I really appreciate you mentioned the other communities like Concow and Yankee Hill. Our communities were forgotten in many of the major news and still some people call this the Paradise Fire, forgetting the other communities that were just as devastated. This video is well done, thank you!

[basileusofstupidonia]

This was a great documentary on the Camp Fire. It's really sad that incompetence within an electrical company could cause so much devastation and loss of life.

[xamandamarie]

i've been watching your videos on tornadoes for the past few days, and just stumbled on this one.
at the time of the camp fire, i lived on the very southeast edge of chico, right at the foothills below paradise. i went to school and everything that morning, but had to rush home midday because we received an evacuation warning. by 10pm that night, the fire was still spreading southwest and i'll never forget the view of it rapidly overtaking the foothills and heading straight for my neighborhood as i finally evacuated. im beyond grateful for the fire crew who took the necessary precautions and made the preparations that kept our lives and houses safe and, very luckily, untouched. sadly one of those we lost in the fire was a close family friend that i grew up with.
i appreciate how informative this video was and how you focused on the cause and who was at fault. so many people i knew in town already had issues with pg&e, and highlighting their "mistakes" (negligence) is important. there's still so many issues with them having a monopoly over these services in california and i hope this education on their repeated shortcomings eventually leads to a much needed change. great video, just like the rest of yours ive seen :)

[shirleyandrews]

2023 Dec 30. AND, still we wait for PGE to PAY. For the past 5 yrs a dribble of $$ from them. They still owe me 65% of the agreed settlem’t amount. I have $14.08 in my savings account while trying to rebuild my house. While PGE executives buy new cars & go on expensive vacations. Must be nice😢😡

[shirleyandrews]

The fire fatalities are ongoing, still. Lung cancer, chronic asthma & COPD has taken its toll on previous Paradise souls.

[Ender]

Being a Campfire "Victim" (Don't know a better word for it) myself I have really wanted to learn more on everything that happened on that day. This is a really well made documentary and I learned more due to it!

[bevror]

You missed one huge point, I used to live in paradise and have many family that suffered through that fire. The point you missed is that there is essentially just 1 road to get in and out of the whole town. This road is not big either, mostly 2 lanes wide but at points is only single lanes. Of the thousands of citizens that evacuated traffic caused many to get stuck in the town.

[Kyle-evfk]

PG&E just passed the cost on to us.

[a_dose_of_wx]

Ending up watching this after reading this in-depth story on the PG-E failures and resulting passing of blame. Doing 1 annual observations, via helicopter, viewing each super structure for 13 seconds a tower. Well done covering this

[Snowstar]

This is incredibly well-made, and I learned a lot from it! Thank you!

[ragdump]

Wow THANK YOU, I live 3.5 miles directly above Pulga, I'm the only one who saw what happened that morning watching from Concow Road at the top of Flea Creek Canyon, I got a message 7am about the fire start from a Friend Chris Hail that was a Battalion Chief with Cal Fire. I had to drive to Flea Mountain to see what was happening, it was a shock of a lifetime I was expecting to see some smoke NOT the Atomic Bomb blast from Heroshma. I am impressed with your accuracy so many bullshit stories going around, I stayed for the entire time . the fire eventually got about 500 feet from my place but it took 5 days since it wasn't a raging inferno at that point. I was very lucky also that Cal Fire had a fire base set up just below Flea Mountain about 2 miles from my place and took care of me

[mikeadams]

PG&E has neglected all of their equipment for decades. Even after all of their incidents, they still aren’t doing much to improve their safety. Most of their hydro plants still have equipment that’s almost 100 years old.

[valerieumphenour]

I lost everything in this fire. Everything! Never got any warning. The one time in my life I needed my tax dollars they failed me!

[Weightlosssecretswithdante]

For a small channel
This was actually a pretty good video wow 😮

[stephanielloyd]

Ive watched so many wildfire documentaries and hot shot videos, I find it fascinating and terrifying. I heard at its most the fire consumed a football field a SECOND!

[soupwifey]

When my family lived in Orange CA. There was a wildfire that stopped 2 miles from their neighborhood. They had evacuated with their dogs. They were so glad that their neighborhood was spared by the fire being extinguished just 2 miles up a dried up grassy hill. They showed me. I saw the black grass and the dried grass that looked like straw.

[MKPrive]

Sadly they now pass modernization costs onto the communities they ravaged with their own negligence. Our electric bills here have soared in the wake of this judgment. Some things just shouldn’t be for profit or if so, must have stricter oversight. Self regulation doesn’t work.

[colin]

I have a bad feeling about mid to late October because the gfs is showing a low pressure moving in which could cause some fires to grow out of control. I just hope that we dont have the same situation as the camp fire this year

[doug]

I just watched you report on the Camp fire, wow.. Nice work..! I never knew they had winds like that up in their mountains. the fire destroyed so much and, so much tragedy for the people in the areas. My prayers and Condolences.
I live in the oak fire region. California. Itll either, burn or sink.
Thanks for your video.

[calvinhobbes]

Keep making your videos my dude. They are so good. Channels (who I won’t name) with many tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of followers pump out stuff that is far worse than yours.