Bad Idea: Waiting out a forest fire in hot tub
I’d like to know why these people though waiting out a forest fire in a hot tub was good idea?
From The Telegraph
As thousands fled, three people who ignored the evacuation calls were seriously injured. A couple were critically burned when they tried to sit out the flames in their hot tub. The pair in Big Tujunga Canyon, on the southwestern edge of the fire, “completely underestimated the fire” and the hot tub provided “no protection whatsoever,” Steve Whitmore, a police spokesman, said on Sunday.
“There were people that did not listen and there were three people that got burned and got critically injured because they did not listen,” said Arnold Schwarzenegger, California’s governor.
- WOODTV8 (NBC) – Wildfire destroys 53 homes in LA County
- The Telegraph – Two Firemen killed as pair seeking refuge in hot tub are killed
- KTLA – Two Residents Hurt Waiting Out Fire In Hot Tub
- LA Times – Big Tujunga Canyon; two people treated for burns
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If they had died, that would totally be Darwin Awards material.
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