California spends billions rebuilding burned towns. The case for calling it quits
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California spends billions rebuilding burned towns. The case for calling it quits
While California has spent billions on rebuilding the town of Paradise, it hasn’t even stopped burning.
California officials spent millions to rebuild the town of Paradise but it still burns:
More than 100 homes and other structures in the small Lake County town of Paradise remain destroyed. A wildfire that started in July has consumed more than 110,000 acres and forced thousands to evacuate.
The Paradise fire, which authorities said had a “large” role in sparking the Camp Fire in which some 100 people died, had made landfall on Paradise, a tiny county seat with a population of about 3,500 located about 25 miles south of Sacramento, on Aug. 2.
The state spent $40 million on emergency and recovery costs, including emergency operations, firefighting, suppression, suppression and water, according to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Here’s the video from KPCC:
The Paradise town of fire, California, is so hot it’s burning through the asphalt. More than half the structure is gone. pic.twitter.com/s2yO8zgkYf
A wildfire in California that started late last summer and is now burning through the asphalt of the town of Paradise, which has a population of almost 2,000, could be the first fire since the California drought ended in 2017 as officials struggle to deal with the worst fire season on record.
“The fire is getting bigger and bigger,” county fire spokesman Robert Meyer said. “I could see the fire coming right up to my house right now.”
The Camp Fire, which is one of at least five major blazes burning across California, started late last week on the edge of town in the foothills outside of Sacramento. It has burned more than 90,000 acres in Sonoma County and is the deadliest in at least 50 years, killing at least 85