Fire in Paradise

Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano, T. Ryder Smith

eAudio - 2020

The harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century.There is no precedent in postwar American history for the destruction of the town of Paradise, California. On November 8, 2018,the community of 27,000 people was swallowed by the ferocious Camp Fire, which razed virtually every home and killed at least 85people. The catastrophe seared the American imagination, taking the front page of every major national newspaper and top billing onthe news networks. It displaced tens of thousands of people, yielding a refugee crisis that continues to unfold.Fire in Paradise is a dramatic and moving narrative of the disaster based on hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents,firefighters and police officers, and scientific expe...rts. Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano are California-based journalists who havereported on Paradise since the day the fire began. Together they reveal the heroics of the first responders, the miraculous escapes... more