Thanks for sharing — so many of our evacuation conversations center around cars. Analyses of evacuation times often *only* include cars. Yet, a large fraction of deaths in wildfires are folks who could not drive due to age, injury or disability.

I know an elderly couple with a cabin in Boulder County. They no longer drive at night & know they can't in a smoky firestorm. When Chinook/Santa Ana winds are forecast, they batten down their cabin and stay in central Boulder until the high risk passes.