South Bay Mountain Community Creates Secondary Evacuation Route, Saying County Hasn't Helped

CBS Bay Area

March 3, 2025

As the climate changes, wildfire has become a constant worry, even in the dead of winter. People living in South Bay mountain communities are taking the issue seriously, including one group of homeowners in Los Gatos who had to create their own evacuation route.

There is only one way in and out of the Aldercroft Heights neighborhood, so when the lightning began striking that started the massive CZU Complex inferno, some of the spot fires began near Aldercroft.

"And so, while they got those ones out and it never became part of the main fire, we realized that there was no reason that what happened in Boulder Creek and those areas. There's no reason that couldn't happen here," said Aldercroft Heights homeowner Sarah Johnston.

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