{"id":15591,"date":"2015-09-14T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=15591"},"modified":"2015-09-14T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T16:55:47","slug":"terrifying-videos-capture-mans-escape-from-california-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/terrifying-videos-capture-mans-escape-from-california-wildfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrifying videos capture man\u2019s escape from California wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-15068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wildfire-2.jpg\" alt=\"Wildfires\" width=\"303\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wildfire-2.jpg 623w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wildfire-2-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wildfire-2-450x333.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wildfire-2-590x437.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/>Colorado has been extremely fortunate this summer with no truly notable wildfires.\u00a0 Other locations across the western U.S. have not been near as lucky.\u00a0 Highlighting this are videos taken by a northern California man as he fled the fast moving Valley Fire.<\/p>\n<p>The Valley Fire broke out Saturday afternoon and quickly exploded forcing thousands to evacuate with little or no notice. \u00a0Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/california-wildfire-spreads-governor-declares-emergency\/\">California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency<\/a> for Lake and Napa counties. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cdfdata.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\">As of this morning the blaze had already consumed 61,000 acres and firefighters only had 5% containment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A YouTube user posted three videos yesterday showing a harrowing escape down roads in the Anderson Springs and Middletown areas.\u00a0 As he drives, flames burn, oftentimes reaching 10 or more feet into the air, lap the roadway and embers and debris blow across the road.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the\u00a0terrifying videos below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0lVPB3HI9Wg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aNzFdYXl4zE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rtMOp0bCpkM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado has been extremely fortunate this summer with no truly notable wildfires.\u00a0 Other locations across the western U.S. have not been near as lucky.\u00a0 Highlighting this are videos taken by a northern California man as he fled the fast moving Valley Fire. The Valley Fire broke out Saturday afternoon and quickly exploded forcing thousands to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/terrifying-videos-capture-mans-escape-from-california-wildfire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Terrifying videos capture man\u2019s escape from California wildfire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[286,442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15592,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591\/revisions\/15592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}