Jeff , woundering if You were told to evacuate and how much time you had to leave
Up to 23 fatalities.
It was a little after 8:00, my wife called and said, “it’s getting really dark and it’s raining debris, hitting the roof, sounds like it’s raining”.
I left immediately from Gridley, I received a text to evacuate on the way home (Gridley to Paradise is 40 minutes).
When I got home, it was dark as night, wind gusts, explosions going off to the East. There was the devil in that direction.
I grabbed a few things my wife had set by the door and we left.
We left her car in the garage, I took my new truck and left my 2002 F-150.
Yes, we received an evacuation notice.
Sheriff Hoenig has his hands full. This fire grew so fast, no one knew what was coming until it was at the doorstep.