Do you have places to evacuate to? In Canada they're reporting that once you're under bush fire warnings it's too late to evacuate. But that's the media. I figured better to go to the source.
We have safe places to go. Many others are not so lucky. A lot of towns have been told to evacuate and that bushfire conditions today may not be survivable.
If you stay after the evacuation warnings and the fire hits, then it's generally too late to evacuate. The worst place to be can be in your car, trying to drive through the fire.
A lot of towns have one narrow road in or out. A lot like Canada, we have similar population density. Towns along the coast had to be evacuated from the water, as you would have seen. We got evacuated last year, firenados are scary as heck. We were standing in the street talking to the neighbours and we saw that and we were all like "holy shit", and bailed.
It's been super dry for a couple of years. And now we are getting extreme heat and winds and it's a disaster waiting to happen. Normally firefighters do hazard reduction (backburning) during the winter but this year and last it has been too dry and too risky.
