Cowfire Dispatcher Beth Bower Soks Calls 911

Cowfire dispatcher beth bower socks picks up the phone and makes a call. She needs every air tanker in northern california deployed as soon as possible to help fight the camp incident. Air tankers are planes that can carry and drop thousands of gallons of water or fire retardant. Under normal circumstances, they're not called on until 24 hours after a fire ignites. But bower socks knows there's nothing normal about this fire. Residents are fleeing, barely able to see where they're going due to the smoke. Multiple buildings are burning and a few injuries have been reported.