A somewhat heated discussion over warning vs order issued to residents in front of this thing started in the other Dixie forum and I didn’t want to add on that thread because I feel only the original post telling us it was issued belongs there, the rest of the thread belongs here (if anywhere) as a discussion. Anyway, my experience with the City of Redding only taking the Carr fire seriously late in the 4th quarter taught me not to depend on any agency to provide adequate warning, but instead to seek up to date info on my own. Some of the posts say basically to take a warning like an order and GTFO. I agree and even think it should be earlier. The police evacuating Mary Lake when the first house caught fire and poorly planned (or unplanned?) traffic control resulted in a huge traffic jam. A motor home would die on the evac route and suddenly half your already insanely jammed two lanes were one. People started to panic. It wasn’t pretty. So I say to the people ahead of the Dixie Fire… People, pets, essentials, leave, pray, be alive tomorrow to cry your house was lost or saved, thank the firefighters for saving it or working so hard to try.