![]() “Building a house is a hard project anyhow, and because these are rebuilds for people who lost their home, there’s a bit of added trauma and emotional challenges that come with that.” Because of the swath of smoke blanketing the area, the company’s concrete deliveries - many for houses that are being rebuilt after the Camp Fire - have been postponed. Martinez manages a construction company that rebuilds houses in Paradise. After sleeping in his truck for several months after the Camp Fire obliterated his home, he went back and bought a house in Paradise. “It’s not something that we can get away from, because of the post-traumatic stress of it all.” “Once you’re a fire victim of such magnitude, which I was and others have been, we watch these fires very closely,” she said. With a historic drought plaguing California, exacerbating what already looks to be a severe wildfire season, climate change is rekindling trauma and threatening the lives of those who have tried to escape its consequences.ĭozens of households displaced by the Camp Fire, like Roberts and her family, have already relocated elsewhere in the state, but many moved to nearby towns that are now in the fire’s path.Įach day the Dixie Fire burns, the anxiety grows along with it. Officials say the state’s worsening drought and low precipitation levels, fueled by climate change, are making it hard to fight the fire, which threatens more than 10,000 structures in the region with more than 60 already destroyed.Įven though Paradise is not directly threatened by the Dixie Fire, its proximity is unnerving. The Dixie Fire on Friday was just 23% contained, according to Cal Fire. ![]() The Camp Fire was the deadliest wildfire in California’s history, killing 85 people and destroying the town of Paradise. In the last few days, the smoke, orange skies and firefighting helicopters flying over the remote town of Paradise reminded residents of the deadly disaster that scarred the region - physically and emotionally - not so long ago. More than 7,800 residents across Butte and Plumas counties have been ordered to evacuate as of Monday morning. Its size jumped significantly last weekend when it merged with the Fly Fire in the Lassen and Plumas national forests. ![]() The Dixie Fire is California’s largest active wildfire, having burned more than 240,000 acres of land - an area larger than New York City - over the course of two weeks. When Jessica Roberts heard that a fire ignited roughly 4 miles from where the Camp Fire started in 2018, she was catapulted back to the most traumatic experience of her life.
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