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Nurses risk their lives to save elderly patients and newborns from burning hospital after it was seized by California wildfires

The Camp Fire has claimed at least 29 people in northern California till now, making it the deadliest wildfire in the state's recorded history.
UPDATED NOV 13, 2018

Nurses from the Feather River Hospital in Paradise, California on Monday lived to tell the tale of how they risked their lives to save the patients as they had just minutes to escape from a rapidly-spreading wildfire, which ravaged the entire town. 

Reports state that the hospital staff just took 20 minutes to evacuate all the patients on Thursday after the deadliest wildfire in California's recorded history, Camp Fire, inched towards the hospital. As the blaze approached, the nurses packed elderly patients and newborns into vehicles and then got in their own cars to head towards safety but were trapped by flames on the road.

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