Wednesday, December 05, 2018

WHAT DO YOU MEAN GOLDEN YEARS? ….. THEY ARE REALLY RUSTY YEARS

Many of the dead in Camp Fire were elderly, infirm or disabled. Could they have been saved?

LAPPL News Watch
December 4, 2018

Sixty-three-year old Ernest Foss had swollen legs and couldn’t walk.

Vinnie Carota, 65, was missing a leg and didn’t have a car.

Evelyn Cline, 83, had a car but struggled to get in it without help.

Dorothy Herrera, 93, had onset dementia and her husband Louis, 86, couldn’t drive anymore.

And 78-year-old John Digby was just feeling sick the morning of the Camp Fire when he refused a neighbor’s offer to drive him to safety.

An unsettling picture is emerging in the fire-charred hills of Butte County: Many of the at least 85 people who perished in the raging Camp Fire on Nov. 8 were elderly, infirm or disabled.

1 comment:

bob walsh said...

That fire moved really, really fast thru that area. Many people literally drove thru tunnels of flame to get out. Some did not make it.