{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"KZYX News","title":"Majority of vehicles, belongings abandoned in mad dash to evacuate","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":390,"description":"Creekside Cabins residents eked out a few more hours of evacuation time after Thursday night’s occupation of the bridge over the sinkhole that opened up between the RV park and Highway 101 on December 30th.\r\n\r\nThe county paid a contractor to lay down a temporary bridge on Wednesday and Thursday, but contrary to expectations, the bridge was not available after 5:00 pm. Last night, residents refused to move off the bridge, which bought time for a stream of fully packed vehicles and one more RV to make it out of the property, which public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren and the Board of Supervisors deemed a public health emergency earlier this week.\r\n\r\nResidents got one more hour yesterday morning, starting at 7:00 if they could. At 6:30, Danilla Sands, Director of United Disaster Relief of Northern California, was standing on the road with a headlamp on, persuading the bridge crew to let truck drivers get in to pull trailers out. Three of them were there with sturdy pickup trucks, gassed up and ready to move. \r\n\r\nOne of them was Jerry, a resident who got out early and spent the day yesterday hauling out neighbors’ trailers. By 7:15, he was over the bridge with a trailer belonging to a couple who had packed yesterday but had been unable to get a truck to haul them. Within fifteen minutes, he had taken their trailer to a nearby turnout, dropped it by the side of the road, and raced back into the park to haul away another neighbor’s home. They weren’t ready, so he went back out to reconnect to the first trailer and drop it off again, this time at a nearby campground. \r\n\r\nTwo more trucks also pulled in at first light, driven by contractors working for United Disaster Relief of Northern California, under North Coast Opportunities. Each of them extracted a trailer as well. One of them was so long, it scraped deep gouges into the hillside near the pullout where drivers had to angle their trucks to approach the narrow bridge correctly. One resident who crossed the bridge...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xZpAumwbhFUpJUYcwaQ1-q6snzOyqAm13l7cW6AWPCM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMzkz/NjAwNjc2OWMyZmFk/YWY2YTdmYjI5M2Mz/YWMxNy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}