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    3 young kids, no insurance and 'starting from the bottom again' after the Camp fire

    by Angel Jennings, Los Angeles Times Dec 05, 2018 6 minutes

    PARADISE, Calif. - Nathan Thomas wanted to give his three young children the life he never had - a stable home with two loving parents, maybe a backyard for them to play in and a spot for him to grill.

    After a few false starts in Lake Tahoe, Alabama and Nevada, he found what he was looking for last year in Paradise atop a hill off Angel Drive.

    Then the fire reduced the city to rubble.

    The tin roof lies on the yard next to the charred remains of his toddler's tricycle. Nathan, his wife, Suzie, and the three children fled in their Jeep with a husky, four cats and a change of clothes. Everything else is gone.

    Two cars. The wedding rings they slid onto each others fingers earlier this year. The mobile home they bought outright with cash from an inheritance but had not insured.

    The family of five were on the

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