Doctor and Paramedic Pull Woman from Burning Ambulance

CHICO, Calif. (KCRA) — As the Camp Fire bore down on Paradise, doctors and nurses at Feather River Hospital began evacuating patients. For one pediatrician, his work continued even after he evacuated the hospital. David Russell made his rounds Thursday morning as he would any other day. Then came word of a growing fire moving toward Paradise. The blaze ignited around 6:30 a.m. last week in the Camp Creek Road area near Highway 70 in the Feather River Canyon. About 52,000 people were forced to evacuate. "I was dispositioning my patients as far as if they could continue care, if they needed to be discharged," Russell said. "And then quite rapidly, as the evacuation of the hospital happened, we had my patients jump in private vehicles." Russell then got in his truck and entered that same line of private vehicles prepared to take patients to safer location. By the time he made it to the front, someone with the hospital told him that everyone had loaded. So, he exited north on Pentz Road into a sea of evacuees. There, he found bumper to bumper traffic. He also found the Camp Fire. Read more at KCRA.
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