Science of Survival: Defending Your Home from a Raging Wildfire

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The 2018 Carr Fire was one of the worst wildfires in California history. By the time it was contained, it had burned 359 square miles, destroyed close to 2,000 buildings, and killed seven people. It also spawned a massive fire tornado—only the second ever recorded. Meteorologists examining the damage afterward estimated that the vortex had generated winds of up to 165 miles per hour. When a blaze like that is coming your way, the only sane thing to do is run for your life. But Gary and Lori Lyon did the opposite, staying to defend their home. Outside contributor Stephanie Joyce has the story on why, in an era of increasingly intense fires, someone would dare to stand and fight an inferno.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Garman, makers of the all new Phoenix 6X Pro Solar GPS watch,
0:08.0	the first Garment smart watch with a solar panel built into the display.
0:12.0	And here at the podcast, we like solar power,
0:15.0	especially producer Robbie Carver, who wears his Phoenix every day
0:19.0	and now spends so much time on his bike
0:21.0	that the only place we could get him to talk about
0:23.4	the watch was out on a ride. So I recently moved from Portland, Oregon to this tiny
0:29.8	mountain town in rural Washington State and instead of just road riding everywhere
0:35.5	I've been finding that I've been doing a ton of mountain biking and show running
0:39.9	backpacking and cross-country skiing and downhill in the winter.
0:45.0	And I really wanted a device that could track all of those different activities.
0:51.0	And so I did my research and I became an unabashed Phoenix family.
0:57.7	Like most fitness watches, the Phoenix 6X Pro Solar gives you data on power, heart rate, and mapping. Like few other fitness watches,
1:05.8	it can also help you acclimatized to high altitudes by gauging your blood oxygen saturation.
1:10.8	And unlike any other fitness watch that can do all those things, it uses the energy to
1:15.6	send battery life.
1:17.6	I can see it.
1:18.6	There's this pretty rad little graph telling me how much sunlight is stemming the battery drain on the watch.
1:25.0	The Phoenix 6X also comes preloaded with global topo maps,
1:29.0	including ski maps for over 2,000 mountain resorts around the world.
1:32.0	Even my little one-chair ski hill is mapped. for over 2,000 mountain resorts around the world.
1:32.6	Even my little one-chair ski hill is mapped.
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