Forest Ablaze: Run for Your Life

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Scott Johnson and his wife Marybeth have an idyllic life in rural Oregon. Surrounded by ancient woodland, forest fires are a common occurrence - something you learn to exist with. When the couple go to bed one night in September 2020, they have no idea what lies in store. Soon, they’ll be trapped in the heart of the most ferocious wildfire seen in these parts for thirty years. Out of options and out of time, together they must leap into the unknown… A Noiser production, written by Rowan Coleman. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If just thinking about your bills makes you feel confused and disorientated,
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0:27.0	It's the early hours of September 7th, 2020. In Marion County and the U.S. State of Oregon, the night skies tinged with orange, the apocalyptic glow of the Beachy Creek
0:36.7	wildfire. State Park and National Forest are being consumed at the rate of three acres per second.
0:45.0	Seventy mile an hour winds drive the inferno down into the Santiam River Canyon
0:50.0	and towards the small city of Gates.
0:57.0	A few miles outside of town, 66-year-old Scott Johnson, his wife Mary Beth,
1:00.0	and their cat, Tuku,
1:02.0	have just seconds to escape the wall of flames rushing towards them.
1:07.0	Scott stumbles in his sandals as he runs over the uneven ground.
1:15.0	In one hand he holds the cat carrier, the other reaches out to Mary Beth,
1:20.0	still dressed in her pyjamas.
1:22.0	They're making for a switchback trail.
1:25.0	It leads down, twisting and turning from their cliff top property
1:29.0	and into the canyon.
1:31.0	With the trees all around them ablaze, the Santiam River at the bottom is their only hope.
1:38.7	As Scott struggles with the cat, Marybeth goes up ahead into the haze. I couldn't see her and she went,
1:47.6	don't come this way, I'm in the middle of the fire, I'm on fire. It was like, whoa.
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