As new documentaries from PBS and Netflix show, the 2018 Camp Fire caught officials off guard: It was immediate, everywhere, unpredictable, overwhelming.
The Getty fire poses a threat not just with flames but also with smoke, which can damage artworks. But the museum says its paintings are protected.
Title and subject aside, there is remarkably little overlap between the two. The first, which premieres Tuesday as part of the PBS investigative series “Frontline,” is a fact-filled, narrated hour that both dramatically recounts the progress of the fire and attempts to come to grips with its greater and lesser causes, human and natural . The Netflix film, a documentary short premiering Nov. 1, is more experiential, more consciously evocative, a kind of group diary of the fire and its aftermath.
The speed with which the fire moved caught services and residents off-guard, compounded by old models of how fire behaved. What seemed at first remote and routine was suddenly immediate, everywhere, unpredictable, overwhelming. Emergency warning systems failed. The few roads out of town became impassible, first from traffic, then from fire. As with other disaster stories in which man and technology come up against nature, Nov.
Both documentaries tell tales of survival and selflessness. Some stories end badly. But more do not. Given all that went wrong, it’s astonishing that more people didn’t lose their lives that day. The “Frontline” documentary goes at length into how procedures failed, but tens of thousands made it out, or made it through, despite the late warnings and obstacles.Silence hangs over Paradise,Calif., after the explosive 2018 Camp fire burned through Butte County.
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