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:
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.
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