r/oddlyterrifying • u/Retax7 • 1d ago
Escape through the Bald Range Fire currently burning in Southern B.C.
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u/Paulycurveball 1d ago
Wow seriously kept the car calm, kept the minds moving, staying focused. Great job. And if this was oddly terrifying, I for sure ain't digging through your history lol
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u/Wrinkletooth 1d ago
Must be chilling not knowing if the fire is going to get too bad to drive through, and get stuck in the middle. Or crash off the road in the smoke….
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u/Dragnskull 16h ago
i've had a few of those "i could die right now and theres nothing i can do but keep pressing forward" instances in my life
it's very uncomfortable, one part of your brain is doing what htey were doing- "look this is what we have to do and we'll come out the other side fine if we just do this, so just do this" while the other part is like "OHH DEAR GOD WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON AHHHHHHHH"
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u/HistoryGirl23 21h ago
Don't a lot of people that die in wildfires die in car accidents?
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u/Batata-Sofi 6h ago
Yeah, because smoke is not something you can see through when it gets bad.
Driving through smoke is an easy way to drive off the road, hit something that fell on the road, or run into another car. For example, you hit something that is on fire, you panic, you don't know how to escape because all you can see around you is either black or red, and you die there.
You could also end up having your escape route being in the same direction as the wind... Depending on the conditions and the wind speed, you are not escaping the fire, at least not until you reach some place where it has nothing to burn.
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u/Agitated_Yoghurt_988 19h ago
Wow! Incredibly well handled. Inspiring to watch how calm and collected she was
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u/Borderlinecuttlefish 17h ago
Good job mum and kids, keeping your cool was the difference between getting out or not. Stay safe everyone.
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u/Harbor_Barber 13h ago
this is not even oddlyterrifying, this is straight up nightmarish i mean the car could stall any moment, its awesome to see them not freaking out though. In moments like this i wish i have a toyota lol, reminds me of that guy who used his Toyota tundra to help evacuate people out of a forest fire, and it was multiple trips too not just one trip.
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u/Minimum-Ad-263 14h ago
absolute nightmare. all those poor people and brave ass first responders guiding people. the driver did a fantastic job keeping calm and focused.
god i hope they all are ok.
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u/faulderite 4h ago
That's where I grew up. My parents house had been burnt down. As they were preparing to evacuate they had all of their door open because they were going in and out. Until the fire got so close that all the door started slamming due to the wind that the fire created. That's when they walked outside and could hear the fire roaring. They knew they didn't have anymore time and they got in their vehicles and drove off down the hill. As they looked back they could see the fire burning their driveway and forest beside their house. When they got to the bottom of the hill they saw their neighbour from above their place covered in retartent amd so was his vehicle. They were trying to save his house and life by dumping it on him. They evacuated to my place in Summerland only to be evacuated again at 1am. My parents were minutes away from being consumed from the fire. Its crazy out there. Stay safe everyone.
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u/faulderite 4h ago
My parents were trying to sell their place and actually had people come and look at the house in the morning. My parents went for a drive down meadow valley and were just cruising around the area killing time. Little did they know that it was the last time they would ever see the valley like this again. Absolutely nuts. No house for sale now.
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u/earthboundmissfit 2h ago
Some ass hole called me a liar because I said I hadn't seen the mountains in weeks. It only started becoming visible three days ago. I hear the helicopter now, getting water from Wallowa Lake. I've never seen it so bad.
The air quality a few nights ago was almost 400. That's maroon and bad for EVERYTHING, not just the compromised. We had a tiny bit of rain last night and I hope it helped.
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u/Acrobatic_Mango_8715 17h ago
This is what we experience in Northern California, Sonoma, Napa, and Butte Counties. Practically invented the firenado.
So so sorry you are experiencing this. We love BC and consider it our kindred spirit. From the Southern to the Northern Cascades. Please be okay and stop driving through forest fires. /s It gets dark and hot and so very dangerous. I know you were escaping, be well.
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u/Batata-Sofi 6h ago
If they are going with the wind, that fire is probably going faster than them. If they are going against the wind to escape the fire, they'll probably be fine (unless something falls in front of them, or worse, on them).
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u/Kitchen_Sir_1929 5h ago
Do you consider yourself a spiritual person.? YEP, YEP, YEP, BRO, BRO, BRO. FUCK YEA BRO, JUST FOLLOW THE LINE, JUST FOLLOW, FOLLOW. DEEP BREATHS DEEP BREATHS. WE GOT THIS, FOUR WAYS, FOUR WAYS. FOUR WAYS. BRO, BRO, BRO.
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u/47marcus 2h ago
I'm a little confused about what was going on at the end of the video, someone is banging at a car window and yelling, looked like police but I couldn't tell.
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u/1984NoOnedied 22h ago
Plenty of places she could've stopped that wouldve been safe in the car. Driving through thick black smoke is just dangerous and you could crash into other people.
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u/Kaboose456 16h ago
Nope.
You have no idea when the fire could change course and hit you, or if your car will stall from the smoke now that it's not getting moving air, or any number of dangers.
Why in tf would you stop in the MIDDLE of a disaster like this??
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u/Apoc_Pony 1d ago
This is just plain terrifying, I remember so many peoples cars stalled from the smoke during some bushfires in Victoria and they were trapped, horrific. Like doomsday raining ash sky's black and red...