Alex Stone
speaker
68 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Alex Stone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And it was bumper to bumper on Saturday night.
Police were telling people use every side road you can, get out of here, that this is about saving your life right now.
The winds are volatile, and so we need everyone to be on alert.
It was wind-driven, it was going in 50-mile-an-hour winds, and there's no stopping, no matter how many firefighters you have, there is no stopping a fire that is in winds like those.
On Saturday night, this area was, for the first time ever, under what's called a PDS, which is a relatively new term used for wildfires, a Particularly Dangerous Situation red flag warning issued by the National Weather Service.
And whenever those are issued, and they are rare,
That is when these typically break out.
If you think of the big wildfires in Southern California in January, a year and a half ago, that was a PDS day where they know that humidity levels are going to be incredibly low in the single digits.
Winds will be 50 miles, 60 miles an hour or more, and that it's just so tender dry.
And it was hot in the 90s on Saturday here.
Since then, the winds have calmed down.
Temperatures have come down.
The humidity has come up.
All of that is helping.
But on Saturday, it was one of these PDS days, and it was incredibly dangerous.
Well, it's so big, they're going to be working on it.
What's also different with wildfires more in the forest is you can't just dig fire line.
Like in Southern California, you send in a hotshot crew and they can just dig fire line using tools and create a line where the fire can't burn any longer, where it has no fuel.
Here, you've got all the trees and everything.
So it takes longer to get in there, to cut down trees, to clean up what is the underlay of the forest.
Showing 41–60 of 68 · page 3 of 4
← Previous
Next →