‘We Have Fire Everywhere’: Escaping California’s Deadliest Blaze

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future. The fire was already growing at a rate of one football field per second when Tamra Fisher woke up on the edge of Paradise, Calif., feeling that her life was no longer insurmountably strenuous or unpleasant and that she might be up to the challenge of living it again.
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