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.
by Ian Stewart
Dec 05, 2018
2 minutes
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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