A Northern California sheriff's office released harrowing body camera footage of a deputy who was nearly overrun by flames as he helped with evacuations the night the deadly Camp Fire swept through Paradise.
Butte County Sheriff's Deputy Aaron Parmley, 23, was attempting to save a group of stranded nurses with a California Highway Patrol officer when he was forced to abandon his vehicle and continue the rescue attempt on foot, surrounded by flames on November 8.
As smoke blackened the sky, Parmley activated his body camera thinking it would capture the last moments of his life.
Thanks to his quick thinking, Parmley, the nurses and the CHP officer made it out alive, with the video of their escape released on Thursday.
The Camp Fire killed at least 88 people.
The video starts with a scrolling text block that reads:
'On November 8, 2018, BCSO Deputy Aaron Parmley was driving on Pentz Road in Paradise, attempting to locate four nurses from Feather River Hospital who needed help evacuating.
'Flames were on both sides of the roadway and he couldn't see more than ten yards in front of him. His car became disabled, forcing him to get out and walk on foot.
'He activated his body-worn camera, in hopes of capturing what he thought were going to be the last moments of his life.'
Northern California's Butte County Sheriff's Office released harrowing body camera footage of Deputy Aaron Parmley, 23, who was nearly overrun by flames as he helped with evacuations the night the deadly Camp Fire swept through Paradise November 8
Parmley was en route to help four nurses and a California Highway Patrol officer evacuate the fire when the engine of his cruiser died.
The scene of the peril unfolded after Parmley left the Feather Canyon Gracious Retirement Living, Parmley told The Los Angeles Times, where the deputy was the first law enforcement official on the scene, and the last to leave.
Once there, he found a 16-person shuttle attempting to get a long line of elderly patients to safety.
The video starts with a scrolling text block that reads: 'On November 8, 2018, BCSO Deputy Aaron Parmley was driving on Pentz Road in Paradise, attempting to locate four nurses from Feather River Hospital who needed help evacuating'
It went on: 'Flames were on both sides of the roadway and he couldn't see more than ten yards in front of him. His car became disabled, forcing him to get out and walk on foot. 'He activated his body-worn camera, in hopes of capturing what he thought were going to be the last moments of his life'
'The manager said that no one had been evacuated yet. And that there were 140 people that needed to be evacuated,' he said.
With the howl of wind and glowing flames everywhere, Parmley said to himself, 'It’s embers. It’s not good.'
After Parmley called for backup, patrol cars showed up along with vans from the jail.
'We just started shoving everybody into those random cars, and everybody got out,' Parmley said.
And not a moment too soon. Within 30 minutes, 'There was fire everywhere. And you could hardly see. There was black smoke. And it was terrible,' Parmley said.
He was the last one to leave the retirement home, and began making his way to one of three man north-south routes in the mountaintop town, along Pentz Road. But Parmley wasn't head down just yet.
The deputy instead drove up, on his way to help evacuate the town of Magalia.
Parmley was attempting to save a group of stranded nurses with a California Highway Patrol officer when he was forced to abandon his vehicle and continue the rescue attempt on foot
But on his way, his car filled with smoke, and a firefighter knocked on his window and told him traffic was blocked, he would have to turn around, and the emergency responder needed Parmley to take four nurses with him.
One male nurse and three female nurses got into his patrol car, but that was shortlived, as the routes down the mountain had become impassable and the group came upon CHP officer Nick Powell who was stopped in the road with more stranded people, and a car that didn't run.
The law enforcement officials and the male nurse worked to get the others into a separate car which went on his way, and Powell joined Parmley and the crew in his car, only now it wouldn't start.
Surrounded by flames and thinking he would die there, he flipped on his body camera
' It’s bad,' Parmley said in the video, as another voice said, 'It’s almost impossible to get somebody in there'
A nurse asked, 'Are they coming for us?' as Parmley led the group on foot along an ember-lined road, with flaming hot debris visibly blowing across their paths in the video
'We have to walk,' Parmley said, before radioing in three times before dispatchers could understand that he was leaving his patrol car behind, and injuring his ankle on the way out of the car.
'Everything was engulfed in flames around us,' Parmley said. 'It was hard to see, and hard to breathe. I thought that was where I was going to die.'
The others thought so too, with some nurses calling loves ones to say their goodbyes.
The young deputy switch on his body camera, thinking these would be the last moments of his life, but still soldiered on.
'It’s bad,' Parmley said in the video.
'It’s almost impossible to get somebody in there,' a voice said.
The deputy spotted a bulldozer in the distance, without which the group may very well may perished in the flames, and Parmley flagged it down with a flashlight
A nurse asked, 'Are they coming for us?'
Parmley led the group on foot along an ember-lined road, with flaming hot debris visibly blowing across their paths in the video.
The deputy spotted a bulldozer in the distance, without which the group may very well may perished in the flames.
'Can we get in?' Parmley said, to which the driver replied, 'Yeah, come on.'
'There’s no room,' one woman said, asking where on of their friend Jess had gone
'Get in,' Parmley said, as the driver told them, 'I can’t fit everybody, and just as it seemed all hope was lost, a fire engine pulled up with enough room for the rest of the people, including Parmley
'There’s someone here to save us,' Parmley said he thought. 'I have never been happier in my entire life than when I saw that bulldozer.' Parmley used his flashlight to flag down it down.
'Can we get in?' Parmley said, to which the driver replied, 'Yeah, come on.'
'There’s no room,' one woman said, asking where on of their friend Jess had gone.
'Get in,' Parmley said, as the driver told them, 'I can’t fit everybody.'
And just as it seemed all hope was lost, a fire engine pulled up with enough room for the rest of the people, including Parmley.
The deputy climbed on board, placed his hand on his chest, turned off the camera, and rode to safety with the others.
The deputy climbed on board, placed his hand on his chest, turned off the camera, and rode to safety with the others
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