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    The epic undertaking to start school again amid the devastation of the Camp fire

    by Hailey Branson-Potts and Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Dec 03, 2018 5 minutes

    CHICO, Calif. - It's been less than a month since the Camp fire tore through the Sierra Nevada foothills, leaving most of the Paradise Unified School District's students homeless and damaging or destroying eight of the district's nine schools.

    But classes start Monday. Somehow.

    "We have no idea how many students will show up because they are scattered far and wide," said Superintendent Michelle John. "We're hoping to see, perhaps, 50 percent of our students."

    There are several rural school districts in the fire-ravaged towns of Paradise, Magalia and Concow. They've all been scrambling.

    An estimated 5,000 students in Butte County have been displaced by the fire. Some 3,500 go to Paradise Unified schools.

    Administrators have rushed to set up makeshift classrooms. Some students will go to borrowed rooms at schools in nearby Oroville and Durham. Students from

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