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Today in Focus

Rebuilding Paradise: five years on from California’s deadliest fire

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Five years after a wildfire killed 85 people in the Californian town of Paradise, the area has been rebuilt from the ashes. Dani Anguiano and Alastair Gee report. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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This is the Guardian. Today, five years on from California's deadliest ever wildfire, how does the town rebuild? It can be tricky to be healthy whilst balancing whatever life throws your way,

0:31.0

but you don't need to become a fitness guru to start making healthier life choices.

0:35.3

For starters, get more sleep. Studies suggest nearly half of UK adults aren't getting the recommended

0:42.1

seven hours sleep per night.

0:44.0

Catching enough seas improves concentration, mental health and reduces the risk of heart disease.

0:50.7

Want more health advice, whatever your age, visit the Guardian.com

0:54.8

forward slash Aviva health. This message was paid for by Aviva. Hey, I was a P.G. Rock Creek Powerhouse.

1:07.0

Yep.

1:09.0

I just got a report of a fire of Po-dam on Highway 70.

1:13.2

Ptoam.

1:14.2

Yeah, on the railroad side under the transmission line.

1:18.0

It was November 2018 and in a remote canyon in far northern California, the weather was unseasonably warm.

1:27.0

Very little rain had fallen in recent days, and the winds were high.

1:32.0

Early one morning, an overhead power cable that had long needed replacing

1:37.0

sparked onto the parched ground below

1:41.0

and started a fire that would prove catastrophic.

1:45.0

We're in Kunkow, there looks like a fire coming over the hill.

1:49.0

The first town it hit was Kunkow.

1:52.0

It was as if this firestorm... The first time it hit was Kontow.

1:57.0

It was as if this firestorm just descended upon them. It was dark, it was smoky, it was incredibly hot,

2:00.0

and people there had no warning at all.

2:04.0

One family edged to the edge of the lake to try and get away from the flames and then

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