Mercy Medical Center has spent the last day preparing to evacuate, Plummer said. A second night of dry, powerful winds pushed flames over the Sacramento River into western Redding and north toward the city of Shasta Lake. The fire made a serious push toward homes on Wednesday night, when winds steered it down to the edge of Whiskeytown Lake. The blaze had grown to 44,450 acres and was 3% contained Friday morning, Cal Fire said. Posted by KRON 4 News on Friday, July 27, 2018 LIVE IMAGES: These are live pictures of #Redding, where a second firefighter has just died battling the #CarrFire. Plummer said he watched doctors, nurses and hospital administrators work through the night even as they got word their own homes had burned. “I started packing my jeep up with things I can’t replace.” “You hear about it and people that have gone through it, but until you’ve gone through it yourself, I don’t think you can 100% appreciate walking through your home and deciding what to take and what not to take,” Plummer said, his voice cracking with emotion. It was the first time he’s experienced an evacuation order. He was told to pack up and leave and spent the night on an air mattress in his office, he said. Thursday and arrived home to find a wall of flames a half-mile away and closing in. Rick Plummer, director of marketing for Dignity Health’s Mercy Medical Center in Redding, said he left the Carr fire command post about 11 p.m. It was a chaotic scene across Redding, a city of 90,000 people about 100 miles from the Oregon border, as towering flames whipped along the horizon and evacuation orders expanded by the hour in the middle of the night. Officials said hundreds of homes were threatened as winds pushed the fire into the community. The blaze, driven east by 30 mph winds, hopscotched into subdivisions Thursday night and Friday morning. Firefighters discuss plans while battling the Carr Fire in Shasta, Calif., on Thursday, July 26, 2018.

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