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In this we video we climb a mountain to get a bird’s-eye view of the Eaton fire that wiped out Altadena. This is a fire that wiped out 10,000 homes of a working class LA suburb and is a DIFFERENT fire than the Palisades, which occurred on the same day.
At 6:30 pm a fire started in Eaton Canyon, up in the mountains. 60mph-80mph winds then blew that fire across the mountain brush and then down into the city, scouring the houses for miles with burning embers and sparks.
Entire neighborhoods are destroyed and thousands of people have to start over, and they could use your help.
If you have any other charities or organizations to recommend that are directly working on the LA Wildfires, please post them here.
Edit: We’ve made this video an official fundraiser through YouTube’s system. YouTube will handle donating the AdSense, and there is a donate link on the video page if you’re willing and able to donate directly. During this time, we may switch up the organization we’re donating to in order to spread out the donations to multiple charities, so don’t be alarmed if the Total Amount Raised changes between different organizations, and keep an eye out for updates/changes. Stay safe LA.
Pasadena Humane Society is dealing with the triage effort with a lot of animals from the Eaton Fire. Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center is helping with injured and displaced wildlife and exotic animals from the fire. ✌️✨
The company Fi has a go fund me to get donations for the dogs that have been in the fires, you could find plenty of pet organizations too.
Team Rubicon. They will be doing muck outs of what remains of peoples homes, damage assessments, and demos for free to the home owner. They will be helping where ever they can. I will be volunteering and be over there as soon as I am able. Every volunteer is champing at the bit to come out and help.
Team Rubicon. They will be mucking out peoples homes, ensuring they have access, doing damage assessments, and demoing burned out structures. Volunteers are ready to go and a just waiting for the opportunity to get in there. Donate, volunteer or just spread the word. If you see a greyshirt out there say hi.
What I have learned from this video is that you should not approach a powerline. @corridorCrew please do a VFX on what happens when you step on a powerline. Get creative of course!
What about the lack of water surely someone is responsible for that.
As someone who works in residential facility in Pasadena its been crazy Eaton Fire when it hit Altadena. It was so close where constantly looking at alerts if we had to evcuate. Several employees lost their homes it was devastating.
Just wanted to point out one really important thing they were demonstrating in the video, but didn’t mention out loud:
If you were wondering why they went to the top of a mountain, and used a ridiculously long telephoto lens to get some footage, when they easily could have just flown a drone overhead for wayy better shots (and you _know_ these guys probably have some nice aerial camera rigs) – there is ABSOLUTELY a reason for that.
A HUGE part of successful wildland firefighting is aerial water/retardant drops, IR flights, crew transport, and many other tasks which only can be carried out from the air. Which means a LOT of airplanes and helicopters, _constantly_ flying through the airspace. If they see a drone anywhere near the area, they literally have to stop and turn around, ground the entire fleet of firefighting aircraft, and wait until they can find the pilot to communicate with them, or they choose to leave the space on their own. And if they _don’t_ see the drone, it can cause serious damage if they impact it – as _literally_ just happened yesterday, to one of their only two super scooper planes – which had to be repaired, and was out of service for several days (which is forever in these situations).
These guys demonstrate the proper, _responsible_ way to be a curious filmmaker, during a wildfire scenario: stay out of the way, keep your cameras on the *ground*, and let the firefighters do their work.