Name: 加州土石流：震撼的目擊者畫面 (完整集) | 災難見證 |國家地理頻道 (California Mudslide: Shocking Eyewitness Footage (Full Episode) | Witness to Disaster | Nat Geo)
Uploaded: 2026-01-22T17:29:43.000Z
Duration: 44 min 25 s

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It's just crazy how, how quickly everything can change.

真的太瘋狂了，一切變化得有多快。

You know, you go to bed, it's just a normal night.

你知道，你上床睡覺，就是一個很平常的夜晚。

And then in the blink of an eye, everything changes.

然後一眨眼的功夫，一切就都變了。

Once the monster in the hill, we were right in the sights.

一旦山上的怪物，我們就完全暴露了。

沒有人能預料到接下來會發生什麼。

Just out in the dark, you could see trees rustling, and then they would drop within a second.

就這樣在黑暗中，你可以看到樹葉沙沙作響，然後它們會在瞬間倒下。

然後你會聽到非常巨大的隆隆聲。

I could feel the earth moving underneath me, and I knew something terrible was going to happen.

我感覺到腳下的地面在移動，我知道有可怕的事情要發生了。

房子就這樣被抬起來，炸開了。

In 2018, Montecito, California, is hit by a devastating natural disaster.

2018年，加州的Montecito遭受了毀滅性的自然災害。

The work to find the missing goes on in Montecito.

在Montecito，尋找失蹤者的工作仍在進行。

Cadaver dogs sniff for the dead While in search, and

rescue personnel seek out those who may still be alive but trapped now survive.

搜救人員則尋找那些可能還活著但被困住的人。

Driver's footage, eyewitness accounts and expert scientific analysis reveal how a series of critical events combine to wreak devastation on an entire community.

駕駛的影片、目擊者陳述和專家科學分析，揭露了一連串關鍵事件如何結合，對整個社區造成毀滅性的打擊。

Just over 80 miles northwest of Los Angeles, California, is the small beach town of Montecito, nestled between the rugged Santa Ines mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

加州洛杉磯西北方約 80 英哩處，坐落著海濱小鎮 Montecito，它依偎在崎嶇的聖伊內斯山脈與太平洋之間。

To its 9,000 residents, Montecito is paradise.

對於這裡的 9,000 位居民來說，Montecito 就是天堂。

The mountains run east, west here, so we have got sunlight all day long.

山脈在這裡東西向延伸，所以我們一整天都有陽光。

And had a wonderful time growing up in Montecito, riding my bike around, learning how to surf and fish and dive.

我在 Montecito 長大，度過了美好的時光，騎著腳踏車到處逛，學習衝浪、釣魚和潛水。

About four years ago, I moved back in with my parents to help them with the house and with the grounds.

大約四年前，我搬回家和父母住，幫忙打理房子和庭院。

They're starting to get older and needed a hand and really enjoyed being back home, being able to help my parents.

他們年紀漸長，需要幫忙，我真的很開心能搬回家，能幫忙我的父母。

I just really got to grow up in an amazing place.

我真的有機會在一個這麼棒的地方長大。

My name is Ralph, but a lot of people know me as Lalo.

我叫 Ralph，但很多人認識我叫 Lalo。

I've, you know, grew up here, lived all my life here.

我從小在這裡長大，一生都住在這裡。

I've been in the restaurant business since the age of 13.

In 1999, Lalo moves in with partner Peter Fleuret.

1999 年，Lalo 和他的伴侶 Peter Fleuret 一起搬進來。

My name is Peter Fleury and I am recording my house, living room area.

我叫 Peter Fleury，我正在記錄我的房子，客廳區域。

as soon as I came to that gate, just feel my stress level calm down.

一到這個門口，就感覺壓力瞬間減輕。

It's been a very peaceful, quiet place to live for the last 17 plus years.

過去 17 年多，這裡一直是個非常平靜、寧靜的居住地。

But in 2017, the tranquility is shattered.

但在 2017 年，這份寧靜被打破了。

A wildfire breaks out 40 miles from Montecito.

一場野火在距離 Montecito 40 英里處爆發。

It will trigger a catastrophic chain of events.

這將引發一連串災難性的事件。

On December 4, a fire starts In Ventura county, the county just south of us.

12 月 4 日，一場野火在我們南邊的縣，也就是 वें圖拉縣爆發。

Several days later, the fire marches into our county.

So immediately we're pressed into action.

We activate our emergency operations center.

The Thomas fire actually started the very first week that we were assigned to the station.

Thomas 火其實發生在我們被派到消防隊的第一週。

They actually canceled our fire academy graduation because the fire was then marching along the mountainside.

他們甚至取消了我們的消防員訓練班畢業典禮，因為當時野火正沿著山坡蔓延。

kind of an exciting feeling to get straight out of the academy, me right into work.

剛從訓練班畢業就立刻投入工作，感覺還挺讓人興奮的。

Despite all efforts, the Thomas fire grows in intensity.

儘管盡了所有努力，Thomas 火的強度仍在增加。

And by mid December, it's in the hills overlooking Montecito.

到了十二月中旬，火勢蔓延到蒙特西託（Montecito）上方的小山丘。

As the days turned into weeks, this monster of a fire just had a slow creep across our foothills and got closer and closer till we could see flames from the house.

隨著日子一天天過去，這場像怪物一樣的火勢緩慢地蔓延到我們山腳下，越來越近，直到我們能從家裡看見火焰。

It was a lot of tension filled days and nights.

There appears to be no end in sight right now for these deadly fires in southern California.

目前看來，南加州的這些致命野火似乎沒有盡頭。

Overnight, this massive fire grew again to nearly 260,000 acres, forcing another 12,000 mandatory evacuations.

一夜之間，這場巨大的野火又蔓延到將近二十六萬英畝，迫使另外一萬兩千人強制撤離。

we rented a big U haul and took hundreds of paintings out of the house, Valuables and everything, and

租了一臺大型 U-Haul 卡車，把幾百幅畫作、貴重物品等等都搬出房子，

had to stay away from the home for a number of days.

Around half of Montecito residents flee the blaze, among them Berkeley Johnson and his family.

大約有半數的 Montecito 居民逃離野火，其中包括 Berkeley Johnson 和他的家人。

With a fire, you just don't know how it's going to play out.

遇到火災時，你真的不知道情況會如何發展。

So when they tell you to evacuate, you evacuate.

所以當他們要你撤離時，你就撤離。

And so we throw what we think are valuables into our car and we depart the area that went on for several weeks.

我們把認為是貴重物品的東西塞進車裡，然後離開了那個持續了好幾個星期的區域。

You know where we're leaving, we come back, we leave.

你知道我們離開了，我們回來，又離開。

By the time they said it was okay to come back, we were quite fatigued with going in and out.

等到他們說可以回來的時候，我們已經進進出出好幾次，累得不行了。

Shortly before Christmas, the blaze has been beaten back enough for Montecito residents to return home.

聖誕節前不久，火勢終於受到控制，讓 Montecito 的居民可以返家。

When the fires finally moved back into the back country in our front range was cleared.

當火勢終於退回山區，我們前方的山脊就淨空了。

We were all walking around in shock that our houses had been saved.

我們都還在震驚中，不敢相信我們的房子竟然保住了。

But I made sure that we decorated and tried to celebrate the best Christmas we could.

但我確保我們有裝飾，並盡量慶祝了我們能辦到的最好的聖誕節。

The Thomas fire earns notoriety as the biggest in Californian history.

Thomas 火是以惡名昭彰，成為加州史上最大的野火。

After a blaze of this magnitude, the work is far from over.

發生這麼大規模的火災後，工作遠遠還沒結束。

Following every major fire, there's a team of scientists that come together.

每次發生重大火災後，都會有一群科學家聚集在一起。

These are folks that are deployed to look at the impacts of the fire, all the impacts of the fire.

這些人會被派去研究火災的影響，所有火災的影響。

The other thing they look at is what kind of erosion and debris flows could occur.

他們還會研究可能發生的侵蝕和土石流。

One of those sent in to investigate is geologist Jeremy Lancaster.

其中一位被派去調查的科學家是地質學家 Jeremy Lancaster。

My team was called in to assess the burn severity and to determine the debris flow and flooding hazard that could impact the community.

我的團隊被召來評估燒毀的嚴重程度，並確定可能影響社區的土石流和洪水危害。

Because after a wildfire, the danger is not over.

因為野火過後，危險並未結束。

In 1934, 45 people were killed and over 400 homes destroyed when a debris flow originating on burnt hillsides Struck in nearby Los Angeles county.

1934 年，在附近的洛杉磯縣，一場源自燒毀山坡的土石流襲擊，造成 45 人死亡，超過 400 戶房屋被毀。

With remarkably similar conditions after the Thomas fire, Jeremy's team has to rapidly gauge the threat of a disaster occurring again.

在 Thomas 火災後出現了非常類似的狀況，Jeremy 的團隊必須迅速評估再次發生災難的威脅。

This is what Montecito looked like after the wildfire.

這就是 Montecito 在野火後的樣子。

This landscape was covered with shrubs and trees and grasses.

這片土地曾覆蓋著灌木、樹木和草。

When you have shrubs that are burned, that have paraffins in them, all of those waxy substances were all condensed into this layer down below the ash surface.

當灌木被燒毀，裡面含有石蠟時，所有這些蠟狀物質都會濃縮成灰燼表面下方的這一層。

And they create a layer that is impenetrable by water that we call a hydrophobic layer.

它們形成了一層水無法滲透的層，我們稱之為疏水層。

So you can see how the water beads on the surface.

所以你可以看到水珠如何在表面上滾動。

And what that means is that during a rainstorm, the water can't penetrate below that surface.

這意味著在暴風雨期間，水無法滲入表面之下。

One drop of water does not look dangerous.

But if you can imagine a million drops of water across this landscape Running off rapidly, It'll snowball, it'll churn and create rills.

但如果你想像一下，這片土地上有數百萬滴水快速流下，它會滾雪球般地越滾越大，翻騰並形成沖溝。

Sooner or later, they form gullies, and they pick up boulders and trees, and

遲早，它們會形成溝渠，並捲起巨石和樹木，

So in Montecito, when we observed this hydrophobic layer, we knew that the soil was sitting on these steep hill slopes and that it was a ticking time bomb.

所以，在 Montecito，當我們觀察到這個疏水層時，我們知道土壤位於這些陡峭的山坡上，而且這就像一顆定時炸彈。

Following the largest wildfire in Californian history, the small town of Montecito now faces a new, potentially catastrophic threat.

在加州歷史上規模最大的野火之後，Montecito 這個小鎮現在面臨著一個新的、潛在災難性的威脅。

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