Now, at 8 a.m., they were imminently threatening the Adventist Health Feather River hospital, where Pierce worked as a registered nurse and ICU manager. They piled into his white Toyota Tundra and headed south for less than a mile, then east on wooded Pearson Road. “I was calm because I’m a nurse and that’s what we do,” Pierce told The Washington Post in a phone interview. Pierce’s two colleagues scurried out to take refuge with the firefighters, who put up protective Mylar blankets over their windows. “It started off as a nice, sunny day, and then hell moved in,” Pierce said.

Source: National Post November 15, 2018 14:15 UTC