PBS Frontline- the CA town of Paradise burns down - how and why
measured look, not hysterical like some docs on the subject. too many peopl in a small space cannot evacuate well enuff
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Man, oh, man. (sorry some of the links are messed up... you'll need to copy and paste the whole URL...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fire_(2018)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fire_(2018)#/media/File:2018_campfire_smoke_effects_on_San_Francisco.jpg
The community of Concow and the town of Paradise were destroyed within the first six hours of the fire,[85][86] losing an estimated 95 percent of their buildings. The town of Magalia also suffered substantial damage, and the community of Pulga, California suffered some. Nearly 19,000 buildings were destroyed
The smoke from the fire resulted in widespread air pollution throughout the San Francisco Bay Area[91] and Central Valley,[92] prompting the closure of public schools in five Bay Area counties and dozens of districts in the Sacramento metropolitan area on November 16.[93][94] Smoke was reportedly visible as far away as New York City after smoke plumes traveled a distance of over 3,000 miles.[95] John Balmes, a physician at the University of California, Berkeley who sits on the California Air Resources Board, noted that the fire "[resulted in] the worst air pollution [ever] for the Bay Area and northern California."[96]
