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Millions of tons of Camp fire debris needs to go somewhere — but no one wants it

LOS ANGELES - The long road to recovery in the town of Paradise starts with removing millions of tons of charred rubble left in the Camp fire's wake.

But the question remains: Where will it all go?

Disaster officials are scrambling to secure a place to sort and process the remnants of nearly 19,000 structures destroyed in the wildfire that began on Nov. 8 and killed 86 people. The mammoth undertaking has been slowed by staunch opposition in nearby communities eyed as potential sites for a temporary scrapyard, which would receive 250 to 400 truckloads of

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