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Johnson, Lizzie.
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company -- History -- 21st century.
Camp Fire, Paradise, Calif., 2018.
Wildfires -- California -- Paradise.
Paradise (Calif.) -- History -- 21st century.
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Johnson, Lizzie.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company -- History -- 21st century.
Camp Fire, Paradise, Calif., 2018.
Wildfires -- California -- Paradise.
Paradise (Calif.) -- History -- 21st century.
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Paradise : one town's struggle to survive an American wildfire / Lizzie Johnson.
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Johnson, Lizzie.
Crown, 2021.
Call #:
070
.44
J67p
Subjects
Pacific Gas and Electric Company -- History -- 21st century.
Camp Fire, Paradise, Calif., 2018.
Wildfires -- California -- Paradise.
Paradise (Calif.) -- History -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780593136386 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xii, 416 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-404) and index.
Summary:
"On November 8, 2018, the people of Paradise, California, awoke to a mottled gray sky and gusty winds. Soon the Camp Fire was upon them, gobbling an acre a second. Less than two hours after the fire ignited, the town was engulfed in flames, the residents trapped in their homes and cars. By the next morning, eighty-five people were dead. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Lizzie Johnson was there as the town of Paradise burned. She saw the smoldering rubble of a historic covered bridge and the beloved Black Bear Diner and she stayed long afterward, visiting shelters, hotels, and makeshift camps. Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting and reams of public records, including 911 calls and testimony from a grand jury investigation, Johnson provides a minute-by-minute account of the Camp Fire, following residents and first responders as they fight to save themselves and their town. We see a young mother fleeing with her newborn; a school bus full of children in search of an escape route; and a group of paramedics, patients, and nurses trapped in a cul-de-sac, fending off the fire with rakes and hoses. Johnson documents the unfolding tragedy with empathy and nuance. But she also investigates the root causes, from runaway climate change to a deeply flawed alert system to Pacific Gas and Electric's decades-long neglect of critical infrastructure. A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again."--From publisher.
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