“Cal Fire said that’s the place to go if there is a fire. I had him in a carrier but the smoke was too much. I just got out and ran around and stayed out of the main flareups.” The car took the first brunt of the heat. The car caught on fire and I had to jump out and run around for a while stay out of the big flare ups. I would have been cooked if I didn’t have the car. The car I rode in took the first brunt of the fireball. “It’s not likely he would be been alright. Hickey said even if Jones had stayed in the field with him, he doesn’t know if the 73-year-old man would have survived. But the fire outmaneuvered him,” the Times wrote. “He had turned countless times to that same path, which leads to the Big Basin Redwoods State Park and its towering, 2,000-year-old trees. He had lived in the wilderness for most of his life. Jones’ friends told the New York Times that, if anyone could outsmart a wildfire, they thought it would be Jones. Jones decided his best shot of survival would be submerging himself in a river one mile away from the field. Jason Hickey stands in the open field where he spent a harrowing night.
So they turned back to the empty field where CalFire had told Last Chance residents to go when a wildfire broke out. The two men had both tried to escape separately by driving out, but flames blocked Last Chance Road. Hickey was the last person who talked to Jones. Jason Hickey spent the night in an open field dodging fireballs and breathing heavy smoke as the CZU Lightning Complex Fire raged all around him the Santa Cruz mountains. One resident, Tad Jones, died, and other Last Chance residents told KRON4 that they barely made it out alive. The emergency evacuation notice sent by CalFire officials was too late, residents said. (KRON) - Residents were trapped within a flaming forest when an inferno engulfed the only road in and out of a small mountain community known as Last Chance.
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