"People sometimes chose to not evacuate when the evacuation may be more hazardous than bugging-in."

This particular thread is about people refusing to evacuation in front of a pending firestorm. Unless you've got a really good hole in the ground, there ARE no worse hazards.

A lot of these people CAN evacuate, but they would rather stand on the roof with their hose, obviously not noticing that the heat is drying the roof just as fast as they wet it down. Or they stand around, wondering if they REALLY need to evacuate, and the flames are in the trees upwind of their house.

When you've got fires like this, there is NOTHING you can do but leave the area. It doesn't matter if you think God will protect you, or the wind may shift, or whatever pea-brained idea you've got is, but THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO, so get out of the gd'd way!

I'm with the Darwin idea. Some people are too stupid to live, so let them make their own decisions, but if they change their mind and call to be saved, well, it's just too bad. They made the wrong decision when they had a decision to make.

Sue