Butte County Search and Rescue; CAMP FIRE

http://www.buttesar.org/ Just 5 days ago, a fire in a remote place called Pulga very quickly turned into the worst wildland fire disaster, both in terms of loss of life and loss of structures, ever in the history of California. Within 90 minutes of the fire being reported our Search and Rescue team was paged out to assist with evacuation notifications in Pulga. While in route, the fire had already reached Paradise, and our team was quickly tasked with helping to evacuate the Feather River Hospital. Team members assisted patients out of the hospital, helped transport patients, and helped patients find shelter in the roadside buildings when the SAR vehicles became trapped by fire. Unbelievable acts of heroism were committed that day, both by our team members, the numerous law enforcement officers and fire and medical personnel that were on duty that day.
Since that fateful day, our team has been on scene every day, fearlessly performing “knock and talks” to help evacuate additional residents as the fire expanded, help locate missing residents, and assist with the management of this massive law enforcement operation.
These Search and Rescue professionals are all volunteers – many left their own family’s and residences in harms way, to respond to this call, to help others in need.
Our team’s motto is “These things we do, so that others may live”.