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The Wildfire Holocaust in Paradise Was Perfectly Avoidable

Fires happen. A whole town unable to evacuate is a preventable crime against human life.
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Let’s admit up front this was preventable. Set aside the fiction. Old power-lines again in the wind. To save money Paradise only had a private opt in evacuation system despite a history of failed evacuations in the past fires, where the fire stopped short. The roads out burned on …