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Wildfires

Paradise Plans Its Comeback After Being Destroyed By Camp Fire

KVCR | By Pauline Bartolone

Published February 25, 2019 at 7:58 AM PST

Hundreds of people displaced by November's Camp Fire gathered last week in Paradise to formally start the process of redesigning their town. As Capital Public Radio's Pauline Bartolone found, fire survivors saw opportunities to make their community better than it was before.

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