> Residents are trained to run into the forest in the mountains when they hear the sirens… the exact spot where they needed to keep people away from because the

> Residents are trained to run into the forest in the mountains when they hear the sirens… the exact spot where they needed to keep people away from because the fire was raging. If that’s accurate, it might have done more harm than good to use them. Even if people went in the wrong direction, at some point they're going to see the smoke and fire, come across someone who tells them what's happening, or otherwise sees a load of people going in the opposite direction to where they're going and figure it out. Having a chance is better than no chance at all which is what these people got.