‘I Don’t Want to Go Anywhere Else but Home.’ How Residents Will Rebuild a Paradise Destroyed by Wildfire

Brenda Howell is glad her father isn't alive to see Paradise, Calf., today. He was the longtime fire chief of the mountain town of 26,000 and always warned it was a "tinderbox" – with wooden houses built along winding roads in a densely forested mountainside.

Northern California's Camp Fire proved all of his fears were well founded when it ripped through the town last Thursday.