And if you ask about its vastness, then the lowest of its people would have within his kingdom and walls and palaces and gardens the distance that would be travelled in a thousand years. And if you ask about its tents and encampments, then one tent is like a concealed pearl that is sixty miles long. And if you ask about its towers, then they are rooms above rooms in buildings that have rivers running underneath them.
In November , the Camp fire tore through Butte County, California , razing the town of Paradise and killing 85 people. One year on, authorities and former residents still struggle with the carnage left by the fire as they rebuild their lives and homes. Many homes are still rubble, with charred soil, and burnt-out cars at every turn. Some areas, however, are slowly getting back to how they were. Scroll down to see photos of what Paradise looks like a year after it was destroyed by the deadliest US fire in a century.
Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. On November 8, , the Camp fire broke out in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, spreading at a rate of around ft per second towards the town of Paradise. The town was engulfed by flames a few days later. Here's what it looks like one year on, a single building rebuilt amidst the destruction.
This composite image shows a ruined mobile home park in Paradise in November , and below, the same park on October 2, Paradise residents have returned, and are still rebuilding their homes and businesses.
And it is changing the landscape in ways that are pretty unfathomable compared to what we knew a few decades ago. The other thing, too, I think, is just realizing that personal preparedness is a really big piece of it. A lot of people see firefighters as these heroes that will come in and rescue them. Acknowledging the risk, again, being on the same page, having the same conversation, and realizing that a fire will likely happen if you live in a fire-prone place, and you need to know how to get out and have your go-bag.
My role as a journalist is to just hold a mirror up to the problem. I wish I had more solutions. But all I can really say is, I think that we need to start being more proactive instead of reactive in terms of preparing for these fires and communities understanding their risk.
Even reading about Paradise and understanding what happens there better will help places have conversations about what they can do to improve. I think that a lot of people assume that recovery is this linear thing. Jamie and Erin in the book with their daughters just finished rebuilding their home. Rachelle lost her husband to cancer.
Kevin is student teaching. What is it like for you now seeing things unfold in Northern California this fire season? It makes me feel really sick to my stomach, to be honest. I was watching videos of the evacuation from South Lake Tahoe yesterday.
And again, it just looks so much like what we saw in Paradise and in Butte County during the Camp Fire. That scene seems to repeat itself summer after summer, right? This road sign on Windsong Lane in Paradise was damaged in the Camp Fire, but is still standing a year after the fire burned through town.
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