‘We Are Trying to Get People Out of Here’
Residents in the town of Greenville, which is about 150 miles (241 kilometers) north of Sacramento, were placed under mandatory evacuation orders on Monday. But Jake Cagle, an operations section chief for California Incident Management, said in an online fire briefing on Wednesday evening that there were “a lot of folks in Greenville who unfortunately did not evacuate” before then. The sheriff office’s Facebook warning was posted just a few hours before Cagle’s briefing.
“We can’t protect structures because we are trying to get people out of here,” Cagle said.
