Rebuilding Paradise five years after California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire

As a Californian I think it's really important that we rebuild Paradise. This community deserves to be saved.

If they want to help rebuild Paradise. They can pay the thousands of residents that remain the money they still owe us 5 years later.

Wow! 5 years. It seemed like that happend a year ago.

It's been 12 years since an F5 tornado blasted its way across Joplin, MO, destroying 40% of the city. Since then the reconstruction is amazing, although there are still many reminders of that fateful day. RIP to the 161 victims.

I’m rebuilding with the help of the wonderful people in & around Paradise. BUT I STILL FEEL ANGER. My 56 yr old son just died of Lung Cancer. My family members have moved out of state. I’m 83 & hope I can enjoy my soon to be rebuilt home before I die. MY GREATEST ANGER is at PGE for stalling payments of retribution. The STOLE 5 1/2 yrs of my life

Paradise, CA, and its residents went through misery just to have the lump show up for a photo op and call it Pleasure, CA. I remember.

I'm one of the rare residents that moved to paradise after the fire, never having lived here before. It's a beautiful community with beautiful people and the landscape has no doubt changed, but is still beautiful. There are less trees, but more views. Future fires in the area will have less fuel, less trees being around and all the new buildings are constructed with fireproofing in mind.

Great reporting by Steve Patterson!

As a Australian from Victoria, our state is known for deadly bushfires. Sympathies for these guys across the pond, i know exactly how it feels to deal with this type of carnage.

I pray Paradise gets rebuild. I grew up in Paradise from 4th grade to college when I moved to Chico. I drove to chico daily on skyway for work, had such amazing memories in Paradise. Grew up with nate smith and his brother Kyle (nate signed with sony after Paradise fires and brought hope to the town). I remember the Paradise High football games, dancing salsa and ballroom across the street after class, the jobs I had, my first love and kiss, first heartbreak, talent shows where I would sing, Billy park, cruising up to Oroville for Holidays and boating on Oroville lake, beautiful people there and beautiful memories I will never forget. I loved this small town. So many friends lost everything but a few items, their car and each other. Many have moved to Oroville and Chico, others in other states and some stayed in cali, but Idk anyone who came back to rebuild and I understand why. I pray for all those who have been inpacted for healing and comfort, strength. Breaks my heart. I heard Jamie Lee Curtis is doing a movie about the fire, specifically about the heroes that saved children in a bus that we will be watching. I hope the majority of the movie or all goes to donating to rebuild Paradise. I moved to Chico a few years before the fire, then the Bay area. It will forever be Paradise in my heart and pray it gets rebuild.

Being from cali and lived in cali during this just about 2 hours from this…: seeing this makes me so happy

Having visited Paradise before the fire, I wish its remaining (and returning) residents all the best and a safe, successful future living there. It won't be perfect, but they will have a chance at a new community. Hopefully hard lessons have been learned, and the fires of the future will be much less devastating as a result.

I would like to attend Chico and live in Paradise

Right now, 29 people are unaccounted in the Ruidoso, New Mexico Fire. I am reading this to judge if officials learned anything from the Paradise Fire.

Please quit building with wood in wildfire areas. There are a lot of other options out there.

So are they going to stay in RVs on their land until they get paid off? Most are too old to being down that, better off selling, living somewhere else and wait for a payoff during your lifetime.

Pleasure, what a name

Blue roofs would be helpful..ask oprah

Wildfires happen every year. Swales can be dug near residential areas through government employment schemes. Goat farmers can circulate herds through those areas to remove brush. Use tried and true common sense rotational systems that have existed for millennia like herding ducks for locusts.

Heard this started from the negligence of PG&E having a loose wire out there... Hopefully they are forking out Money to all the residents.