SF News Five Years Ago Today, the NorCal Town of Paradise Exploded In Flames, Killing 85 Today, November 8, marks the five-year anniversary of the devastating Camp Fire, which claimed 85 lives, destroyed some 11,000 homes, and nearly wiped an entire community off the map.
SF News Alleged Sham Contractors Arrested for Unlicensed Work in Camp Fire Rebuild Four men who claimed to be licensed contractors, but were not, were arrested after generating complaints from Camp Fire fire victims in Paradise.
SF News Dixie Fire Scorches Over 2,200 Acres Near Paradise In Under Two Days A wildfire that expanded rapidly on Wednesday is burning very near the burn scar of the 2018 Camp Fire, just east of the origin point of that fire, but so far is not threatening any homes.
SF Politics Congress’ Resident QAnon Loon Claimed 2018 Camp Fire was Started by Space Lasers A recent dump of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s old social media posts includes a 2018 screed that a cabal of Jewish bankers used space lasers to start the deadliest fire in California history, as part of a high-speed rail scheme.
Arts & Entertainment Ron Howard's New Documentary 'Rebuilding Paradise' Depicts a Town Starting From Scratch The Camp Fire burned through Paradise nearly two years ago, killing dozens and decimating thousands of homes. Now, lauded film director Ron Howard’s new documentary, "Rebuilding Paradise," showcases how the community persevered — and began rebuilding their lives from nothing.
SF News PG&E Claims Wildfire Victims Have ‘Overwhelming’ Support for Half-Cash, Half-Stock Settlement Deal PG&E stock seems like pretty curious compensation for 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter, but victims do seem in favor of the deal so they can finally get some renumeration.
Business & Tech PG&E Pleads Guilty In Camp Fire Manslaughter Case Brought By Butte County The latest development in the painfully slow bankruptcy clownshow of Pacific Gas & Electric is a proposed settlement in a case brought by the Butte County district attorney and county officials.
SF News PG&E Is Still Operating a 'Rickety' Power Line With Rusted Parts Near the One That Sparked the Camp Fire An expert hired by wildfire victims' attorneys recently did an independent inspection of PG&E power lines that are still operational in the vicinity of Paradise, California, and they have found one in terrible shape just 100 yards from the Caribou-Palermo line which sparked the 2018 Camp Fire.
SF News Where Did All the Camp Fire Survivors Disperse To? After the town of Paradise, California largely burnt to the ground in November 2018, its residents moved, in some cases, halfway or all the way across the country.
SF News NorCal City Asks Permission to Essentially Incarcerate Homeless Population A spike in unsheltered people camping along Shasta County’s Sacramento River has the mayor of Redding requesting a “low-security facility” in which to round them up and detain them involuntarily.
SF News Camp Fire Anniversary Marked With Stories Of Rebuilding, and Mystery Man's Remains One year ago today, the ferocious Camp Fire broke out in the forested hills east of Concow and Paradise, California. And marking the anniversary the local media has published dozens of stories checking back in on the survivors and the rebuilding effort.
SF News Camp Fire Death Toll Rises To 86 As Elderly Man Succumbs To His Wounds The death toll in last November's Camp Fire just rose by one after 72-year-old Paul Ernest of Paradise succumbed to complications from burns that he got trying to escape the fire with his wife. Ernest had been hospitalized ever since the fire.
SF News 47-Year-Old Woman Listed As Missing In the Camp Fire Turns Up Alive A woman who remained on the list of those unaccounted for in last November's Camp Fire in Paradise, California turned up this week about 20 miles south in the town of Oroville, where she is from.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ghost Ship Families Watch Firefighter's Helmet Video Juul is trying to go the ballot-measure route to keep vape pens legal in SF, the city just bought a former McDonald's site on Bryant, and PG&E has officially been blamed for the Camp Fire by the state.
SF News First Two Rebuilding Permits Issued For Homes In Fire-Ravaged Paradise Just shy of five months after the devastating Camp Fire leveled the Northern California town of Paradise, two small signs of rebirth arrived Thursday in the form of the town's first two building permits for new homes.
Arts & Entertainment Artist Paints Murals on Camp Fire Wreckage Artist Shane Grammer gets permission from property owners for these murals, which show “beauty in the ashes” of the destroyed town of Paradise, CA.
SF News Records Show PG&E Delayed Maintenance On Power Line That Likely Sparked Camp Fire Newly surfaced communications between PG&E and federal regulators show that the utility was intending to do safety work on the Caribou-Palermo line as far back as 2013.
