Name: Ellen Surprises California Firefighter Who Lost His Home
Uploaded: 2021-01-02T15:50:20.000Z
Duration: 5 min 52 s
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some of the worst wildfires we have ever seen.

Over 1 million acres burned, and thousands of homes

Firefighters and volunteers have been battling the flames

These heroes put their lives on the line every single day.

I'm an engineer with Cal Fire, and this is my ninth fire

I grew up with my father being a firefighter,

When the Carr fire started, I was far away

working on the Ferguson fire in Yosemite.

Deadly wildfires are raging in California.

The Carr fire burned dozens of homes in the Redding area,

20,000 people were ordered to evacuate overnight.

We're talking about more than 3,000 firefighters

These men and women are working 24 on, 24 off.

I was like, so, should I be worried or anything?

I kind of scoffed at it and was like, oh, no, we'll be fine.

Then at one point, I got a text from my friend

who was on the fire, and the fire was just ripping.

And at that point, I went from, everything

is going to be OK, to, we're in some trouble.

And I look outside, and there are cars racing out

being able to help the ones that are closest to me

there's feeling of, oh, my God, my house is gone.

There was no way my house could have made it through that.

I had seen the flames coming straight towards it.

It was heartbreaking, because the home that we

I'm most grateful for the people that I have in my life--

Hope, our parents, my work, the community,

and what's important to you, because you get so wrapped up

and those are the people in your life, not the things.

I love firefighters, and we had a very bad fire

And firefighters saved my home, and I am forever grateful.

But I loved firefighters way before it got to my home.

I mean, have you ever seen anything like this before?

Like you guys saw, this is my ninth season,

like this, especially this early in the season.

It's been really significant, the fire activity, the deaths.

And how many hours on average were you working a day?

And I had been doing that for about two weeks

I can't imagine being exhausted, carrying that heavy equipment,

but then you were in traffic trying to get out,

and you're thinking, can I even make it out of here?

Yeah, we were stuck in traffic for a good 15,

20 minutes with the flames coming behind us.

It was the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced.

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Ellen Surprises California Firefighter Who Lost His Home

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