California resident gave birth to a child when the city engulfed fire
'28.11.2018'
Source: People
A resident of Paradise, California, completely burned down during a forest fire, and could not imagine that with a newborn child and a cut belly she would have to urgently escape from a natural disaster.
Rachel Sanders, 35, gave birth to her son, Lincoln, weighing three kilograms as a result of a cesarean section - her pregnancy was at high risk. It all happened on November 8 this year - just a few hours before the woman and the baby had to urgently evacuate along with the rest of the patients and staff of the Paradise hospital, writes People.
When the fire got to the hospital, Sanders, together with an employee named David, whose name she never knew, was forced to literally jump into the car to leave as soon as possible. Because of a cut in her stomach, she could not use a seat belt. The woman put an oxygen mask on the face of her baby, but could only close her own mouth and nose with her hospital gown.
CNN reports that David, who worked in the hospital, but had no medical experience, managed to attach her dropper to the rear-view mirrors in the car.
And since she was confined to a wheelchair and unable to walk or run, Sanders - now a mother of three - knew that her chances were very slim if the fire caught up with the car.
When David and Sanders drove along the crowded roads full of fire, the mother said to the man: “If it comes to that, if you have to run, take the child. Leave me here. ”
Fortunately, this did not happen - even as they drove for nine hours through what she said resembled a "storm of fire." Throughout the unbearably long and terrible trip, the woman says, flames surrounded the road many times.
At some point, they drove past her family's house - Sanders saw that everything had burned down.
“I thought I couldn't handle it,” Sanders told CNN. “I wasn’t sure any of us could handle it. It was very, very scary. "
Sanders and Lincoln were transferred to Enlow Medical Center in Chico, where she was reunited with her husband and other children. But their family is no longer at home.
The woman says: "There was no such Thanksgiving yet, when I would have so little left, but I would feel so grateful and blessed."
Camp Fire has killed at least 79 people, according to CNN. Paradise, the city where Sanders was hospitalized, was completely destroyed by fire.
On Monday evening, Robert Baruffaldi, a meteorologist from the National Meteorological Service of Sacramento, said that heavy rain, due to start on Wednesday, “will complete the fire concern for the winter period,” but may cause sudden flooding and debris flows.
