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🗓️ 26 May 2022
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In 2018, the Camp Fire swept through California. It was the deadliest in the state’s history, destroying more than 18,000 buildings and killing 85 people. The town of Paradise all but burned to the ground at the time. Four years later, Paradise is in the midst of a housing boom. New homes are everywhere as people, some of them who lost their homes in the Camp Fire, return to the region.
There’s no guarantee that another fire won’t sweep through the region. So why are people flocking to the area?
On today’s episode of Cyber, Motherboard Staff Writer Aaron Gordon sits down to talk about what’s going on in Paradise.. Gordon is newly back from California where he chased some dogs through some forests and talked to a few of the town’s residents.
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Paradise Burned to the Ground. Now It’s Another Hot Housing Market
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0:00.0 | Captain, it's got the code it's going to launch. |
0:10.5 | It's a unit system. I know this. It's all the files of the whole park. It tells her everything. |
0:19.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:22.1 | The Eagle one. |
0:23.5 | The package is being delivered. |
0:26.6 | Hello out there on the internet. |
0:27.6 | I'm Matthew Galt. |
0:28.4 | This is Cyber. |
0:32.8 | Special shout out to the people who are watching us on Twitch as we record this one live. |
0:37.0 | So in 2018, the campfire swept through California. |
0:40.8 | It was the deadliest in the state's history, destroying more than 1,800 buildings and killing 85 people. |
0:43.3 | The town of Paradise, all but burned to the ground at the time. |
0:46.4 | Four years later, Paradise is in the midst of a housing boom. |
0:50.2 | New homes are everywhere as people, some of them who lost their homes in the campfire, |
0:54.2 | return to the region. |
0:55.8 | Now, there's no guarantee that another fire won't sweep through the region, so why are people flocking there? |
1:02.5 | With me today to talk about this is Motherboard Staff writer Aaron Gordon. |
1:06.1 | Gordon is freshly back from California, where he chased some dogs through some forests and talk to a few |
1:12.1 | Paradise residents. Aaron, thank you so much for coming back onto the show. Matt, always a pleasure. |
1:18.8 | All right. So where exactly is Paradise? Paradise is about an hour, hour and a half drive north of Sacramento, and about three hours west of Reno, and about two and a half three hours northeast of the Bay Area. |
1:43.0 | Okay. And so what happened in 2018? |
1:47.6 | So 2018, there was a very, very large wildfire called, as you said, the campfire. |
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