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Deadly fire leveled a California town in less than a day
By PAUL ELIAS and GILLIAN FLACCUS | Associated Press
The burned out hulks of cars abandoned by their drivers sit along a road Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, in Paradise, Calif. A massive wildfire swept through the area, Thursday, and the roads were so clogged with vehicles, that some drivers left their cars and ran to escape the flames. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
PARADISE, Calif. – Not a single resident of Paradise can be seen anywhere in town after most of them fled the burning Northern California community that may be lost forever. Abandoned, charred vehicles cluttered the main thoroughfare, evidence of the panicked evacuation a day earlier.
Most of its buildings are in ruin. Entire neighborhoods are leveled. The business district is destroyed. In a single day, this Sierra Nevada foothill town of 27,000 founded in the 1800s was largely incinerated by flames that moved so fast there was nothing firefighters could do.
Only a day after it began, the blaze that started outside the hilly town of Paradise had grown on Friday to nearly 140 square miles (360 square kilometers) and destroyed more than 6,700 structures, almost all of them homes, making it California's most destructive wildfire since record-keeping began.
Nine people have been found dead, some inside their cars and others outside vehicles or homes after a desperate evacuation that Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea called "the worst-case scenario." Their identities were not yet known.
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READ MORE: https://www.foxnews.com/us/deadly-fire-leveled-a-california-town-in-less-than-a-day
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