In 2018, a wildfire, caused by electrical transmission lines, destroyed approximately 90% of the northern California town of Paradise. The fire, one of the worst wildfires this century in the United States, started on November 8, 2018. The Camp Fire killed 85 people and burned more than 16,000 homes in its path.
2018: Camp Fire Destroys Paradise, California
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FILE - NASA's Operational Land Imager satellite image shows the Camp Fire burning at around 10:45 a.m. local time near Paradise, California, U.S., on Nov. 8, 2018.
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Flames consume a home as the Camp Fire tears through Paradise, California, Nov. 8, 2018.
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(L-R) Forensic anthropologists Kyra Stull and Tatiana Vlemincq work with San Mateo County Deputy Coroner Elizabeth Ortiz to recover human remains from a trailer home destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, U.S., November 17, 2018.
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A deer walks past a destroyed home on Orrin Lane after the wildfire burned through Paradise, Calif., Nov. 10, 2018.
