As Northern California approaches the two-year anniversary of the Wine Country Fire siege, the City of Santa Rosa is rolling out a critical part of its plan for the next fire.
“The roads, especially up in the hills here, there really aren’t a whole lot of roads that take you out of here,” said a Santa Rosa resident named Ron. “If you had a few hundred people trying to get out of here in a panic that could be a problem.“
As of Tuesday, there is some new help with exactly that potential challenge. KPIX 5 took it for a little test drive with a resident of the Santa Rosa hills.
“Ah, a map, Montecito Heights area,” Ron said, loading up the evacuation map on a cell phone. He found it easy to locate his neighborhood, and the maps gave a few ideas of which way someone could get out.
Ron said the system could be helpful for anyone visiting the neighborhood.