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As Evacuation Orders Lift, Some Paradise Residents Return Home To Devastation

Part of the Northern California town obliterated by the Camp Fire was reopened Wednesday, allowing people to return and see what is left of their community.
Tamara and Seth Roberts stand in front of the remains of their home in Paradise during a short visit on Nov. 10. It was destroyed in the Camp Fire two days earlier.

For Seth Roberts and other residents of Paradise, Calif., Wednesday marked a sad homecoming.

"I'm in my backyard and it's all gone," Roberts told NPR. "My house is gone, my shop's gone, my sheds are gone. ... Nothing left, just a bunch of charred stuff."

Nearly a month after the Camp Fire decimated the Northern across a stretch of the eastern portion of Paradise, allowing people to return and see what is left of their homes and businesses.

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