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Saturday: Woodside residents to evacuate homes for wildfire drill

Original post made on May 13, 2015

On Saturday, May 16, firefighting crews will be at their jobs as if a major wildfire were burning in the vicinity of Old La Honda Road in Woodside. It's time for the annual wildfire drill.

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Comments

Posted by c
a resident of Woodside: Mountain Home Road
on May 13, 2015 at 12:11 pm

No bike riders on Old La Honda Road all day Saturday - what a nice break!


Posted by Peter Carpenter
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on May 13, 2015 at 1:09 pm

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This is a superb plan. Hopefully everyone involved will appreciate how difficult such evacuations will be and when the real wildfire comes they will know to get out early rather than wait until it is too late.

Will they have fire trucks going in the opposite direction as will happen when a real wildfire occurs? Remember what happened in the Oakland hills fire - fire engines going in one direction and cars going in the opposite direction made many roads impassable.


Posted by SteveC
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on May 13, 2015 at 2:32 pm

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Practice makes perfection. Drill do pay off in real emergencies.