100s Trapped In Town As Park Fire Explodes Thousands Of Acres

THIS INFORMATION WAS AS OF 7-24-24 AT 9PM AND IS NOT MOST CURRENT

INCIDENT DATE/TIME:   7.24.24 | 9 PM
LOCATION: Upper park rd. and upper bidwell park
AREA/CITY: Chico
DETAILS:

The Fire known as the Park incident has exploded to thousands of acres in just a few hours.
100s of vehicles and residents are now trapped and cut off from evacuating down Cohasset rd, where the fire has overtaken the exit route out of town, and residents and vehicles are sheltering in place under the protection of first responders.
The fire started around 3 PM this afternoon as a small grass fire. After an hour, it exploded to over 2,000 acres, starting from the Chico Valley and running all the way into the foothills.
A video was taken from Cohasset Rd as we tried to access the community of Cohasset, but the fire completely blocked us from continuing to progress.
Fire resources are bravely attempting to drive through the flames wall and access the town.
Incident command is talking about the possibility of ordering National Guard helicopters to possibly start evacuating people by air from the heli-base at the top of Cohasset
More details and videos are coming.

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[cynthiagraham]

Father lay your hands around this fire and around the town and the people in Jesus name Amen

[mariacaceres]

Everyone please pray for help with the fire and the safety of the people!

[kiezersosay]

Thoughts and prayers to all who are affected... not just the humans, but think of all the poor animals. The man who started this needs to be locked up for life.

[PJHEATERMAN]

My neck of the woods. I'm not liking summertime like i used to. To much devastation. My Neiborhood burned up in the Carr fire, my whole street burned up except my house and a few others. Had survival guilt when my neighbors of 25 years were gone.

[hogwildmax]

Prayers for all affected by this horrendous fire.🙏🙏

[wasabiginger]

Growing in Malibu as a kid in the 50's ... am still feeling traumatized by huge fire storms like this!

[muzikfiendlyfe]

My hats off to you brave men and women that go out and fight these massive fires that is just insane it must be really exhausting and hot 👍👍

[auntissie]

Omg how terrifying. My love is with these poor folks... the firefighters, and all the innocent animals... it looks like how I imagine hell. 😢

[lisamdio]

Omg this is scary as hell. God bless those firefighters.

[wasabiginger]

Horrific ... endless prayers to firemen and all residents

[jfowler]

This is as good of a representation of the term "FIRESTORM" as I have ever

[tonyarichards]

Damn that sucks.
Condolences from Vermont.

[FrancisDrake-qj]

I've read that if the fire's big enough and sucking in enough oxygen, there are situations where your car won't run because of lack of oxygen. Shit's serious. Get out as EARLY as you can!

[spacekitten]

Wow that is nasty wildfire. Hope everyone survived and is safe. Hellish inferno I would not want to be caught in for sure . Be safe first responders ❤❤❤

[marctompkins]

Not one word spoken on as to the location of the trapped people. Paradise? Magalia. sterling City? Chico?

[DharmaTalksToo]

My thoughts and prayers go out to the families, communities, wildlife, and the brave firefighters battling these devastating wildfires. 🙏🙏
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"The Earth is not just our environment. We are the Earth, and the Earth is us. We have always been one with the Earth." - Thich Nhat Hanh

[thestrikingtruth]

You should never stand uphill from a fire like that. Very dangerous.

[marioalbertorodriguez]

They say the fire was started by one person,
and the "Fire Tornado" you can see,
who started it? Was it also started by the same person?

Anyone can start a fire, but: What person can make
a fire consume 5, 000 acres in an hour?
Only the "Laser Fire Machine" can do it.

[flightreacts]

ONSCENE TV IN MY COUNTY!!!! NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE SEEN THE DAY

[juliehealingleaf]

They are trapped because no one understands the stupid zone maps no one goes by shapes of towns they didn't tell people lines of streets of locations towns or anything I keep trying to look at the maps to find out where the fire edges and all I can see is stupid numbers for like zones I don't know where those zones are nobody does especially older people nobody goes by that when you go to Google you go don't go by zones you go by streets you go by towns I'm so disappointed I've heard 85 people have already died and this is probably why.