The Camp Fire 2018: Living on the Ridge
- ISBN-10
- 1073356078
- ISBN-13
- 9781073356072
- Pages
- 122
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-06-20
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Author
- Paula Jean Link
Description
California wildfires are becoming more common, more frequent, and burning more ferociously. On November 8, 2018 at 6:38 a.m. a fire started 8 miles east of Paradise, CA in Butte County racing up and down canyons reaching Paradise in less than an hour. This fire ended up being the worst in the history of California and responsible for more lives than any other wildfire, destroying nearly all of a small rural town called Concow, ninety-five percent of Paradise and fifty percent of Magalia, all in Butte County. The horrific evacuation of an overall combined 52,000 people from Paradise to Centerville fleeing from their homes and businesses only to find gridlock streets with abandoned cars on fire, people running frantically on foot through tunneling flames and thick smoke causing zero visibility will forever be in the memories of the people who once lived here and those who still do. Residents returned home to a town of ashes and flattened ruins, the aftermath and destruction is beyond one's imagination, it looked more like a bombing had occurred in these towns rather than a fire.
