Fire officials have warned Emerald Triangle locals they will do everything they can to defend the crops but will not risk firefighters' lives to save residents who have refused to leave.

(Photo: Mike McMillan / U.S. Forest Service)

Nate Trujillo, a narcotics deputy in Trinity County sat watched California's largest wildfire, the August Complex, work its way toward the cannabis-growing enclave of Post Mountain-Trinity Pines "Many of the locals are refusing to evacuate. It's mainly growers. And a lot of them, they don’t want to leave because that is their livelihood."



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