The Deadliest Wildfire In California History

California's largest utility company, Pacific Gas & Electric, filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday after facing mounting scrutiny for its role in November's Camp Fire.
While climate change is partially to blame for California's deadliest fire, most residents of Paradise, California almost immediately pointed the finger at the largest utility company in the state. The investigation into what caused the Camp Fire is still ongoing, but PG&E cited “actual and potential liabilities” in its decision to file for bankruptcy.
VICE News was in Paradise immediately after the Camp Fire to meet residents and learn how California can survive a future of deadlier fires.
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“We know, as a matter of fire science, that high winds and dry weather are some of the most dangerous conditions,” said John Fiske, a lawyer representing residents, cities, and counties against PG&E in multiple wildfires, including the Camp Fire. WATCH NEXT: The Last Days of Death Row Inmate Scott Dozier - bit.ly/2FASiJb

[@yocinfluenced9256]

When California fines pg&e the California energy commission lets them raise there rates and we end up paying there fines for them

[@janbadinski7126]

@@yocinfluenced9256 Customers were told in the 70s and 80s that nuclear power plants would make rates cheaper. It's the line they fed us but after Diablo Canyon. The rates went up to supposedly to pay for the facility. Then the rates went up again. They have never lowered rates. This is what happens when PUC is too closely affiliated with a utility company. They rip everyone off then wonder why their reputation is too accurate for them. They've know there was a problem for decades with their power lines and did nothing. Now people are dying because of their negligence and they want to get out of paying for lawsuits. California's utilities need to be split, they are a monopoly.

[@evoazx2660]

Why don't you follow a shot crew or a jump crew Vice? You guys seem to follow only contract and municiple crews. Pease quit reporting on fire.

[@janbadinski7126]

What a shame they won't be paying the fines and such. It isn't like they don't have the money.

[@rickyracks8848]

also no rain,

[@LoveEquestria4evet]

And just today PG&E being investigated AGAIN, for the newest fire.

[@shadowspire]

yes and unfortunately we will foot the bill once more, just like we did the last. PG&E really has to be held accountable, they should be forced to adopt the Tech system our county utility SDG&E(which is a PG&E subsidiary) has developed, it is a mix of modernization of power lines by burrying them, 24/7 monitoring for faulty lines(above ground), weather watch in areas deemed potential fire hazard. As well a grid that can be configured to cut power while not affecting less risky areas. Great example is last Friday, in Rancho Santa Fe and surrounding areas was cut but not my city, the outage went around us while crews were on high alert ready to deploy. If SDG&E can do it on a smaller budget, there is no reason PG&E cant either

[@reversecourse]

What happened to the homeowner's responsibility of having a defensible space around their house?

[@shadowspire]

@@reversecourse there's only so much a homeowner can do. I'm not sure if you're in Cali or not but the main reason that the Camp fire was so deadly was not because people did not have a defensible space around their home, most people did. Granted some may not have but happened was the constant wind that was fueling the flame was also throwing embers all over the place. The city i live in was not affect too much by the fires last year but i got to see the after math in the neighboring city last year even though the fire was not as big it managed to destroy some homes about 30mins from my house, on the way to my job i was able to see how the fire simply spread because of the embers that flew over empty plots of land that had almost no brush and destroy a couple homes. It's easy to say things such as what you have stated it's another to actually live them

[@johnny4aces410]

These fires are occurring with frightening frequency. The unprecedented number of fires appears to coincide with leftists taking over CA. When CA was a Republican state there never was so many fires. I doubt if this is a coincidence.

[@shadowspire]

@@johnny4aces410 Normally I'd reply with facts but You can't fix Ignorance in most. So run along with your tin foil hat.

[@hollybaker3918]

This was the worst day of my life! I lost everything including my cat.... I'm still in Paradise but living in a RV because I can't afford a place to live... I have lived in Paradise for 31 years. It will never be the same... Right now we are in between 2 fires. It's absolutely terrifying...

[@vhangzpaquiabas8830]

So sorry to hear that 💔🥺

[@vwlover4677]

I lost everything but the underwear that me and wife ran out of the house in. All my childhood pics/toys everything gone in 45min. This is horrible!

[@ffejkk37]

Did the GTI make it?

[@vwlover4677]

@@ffejkk37 yes! Thankfully it is a manual and my driveway is on a slant. So I was able to get it out of harms way.

[@scottp4063]

lovelover Volkswagen sucks

[@scottp4063]

@@Spadookie L.A! Wahahhas we smoked L.A. In basketball , baseball and now football . Boston baby city of champions. L.A. city of fair weather fans

[@markzuckerburg5220]

Scott Porter your mom sucks

[@Roman-uu3gz]

Im from Chico and I can tell you that it felt like the apocalypse, The sky was blood red and you couldn't see more than 5 feet in front you you. Many people I know lost everything. The environment is trying to tell us something, but we refuse to listen....

[@Lrix]

So sorry you had to experience something like that. I know it may not mean much but my thoughts are with you guys.

[@maggiee639]

Watching the footage on the news was shocking. I’m sorry you had to go through that.

[@lolzormachine]

Same here. I remember days later, the air pollution was so bad at some instances that it broke 900 on the air quality index. That's breaking the scale. Societies really do need to radically restructure themselves to mitigate and adapt to climate change and prepare for disasters like these. If you're reading this, know your potential threats of disaster, prepare for them, have a couple plans, and make a go-bag.

[@grantdubridge7995]

The environment told you nothing. There have always been forest fires with most of them starting from lightning. Lightning is the environment. Forest fire areas go back to life in less then a year with all new ferns and trees growing, that's the environment. Buy good for insurance.

[@markmnorcal]

That Thursday morning was cold and dark here in Chico. Fire came within a mile from me.

[@oACE20o]

My home town. We will rebuild! R.I.P to the 86 people who never made it out.

[@TheNimshew]

I’m not so sure,420.

[@elenthora442]

Amen to that!

@@TheNimshew Finally someone in here that isnt a shill and is awake to this bullshit illusion these sicko psychopaths are pulling on the people. Dont they make you sick? They are fucking little pathetic demons my friend. They are as insidious as it gets. It's totally mind boggling to see how sick humanity can be to cover this genocide up but here is the proof. They are ust about as bad as being satan themselves and it makes me freaking want to vomit all over them.!

[@paradiseconnection5308]

We are rebuilding

[@Quietcowgirl]

Rest In Peace Paradise. I feel blessed to have spent my childhood here, met my first love, experienced my first heart break here..to graduate high school and have my son here.. I feel blessed to have known it and remember it as what it was..Paradise. My mom, my uncle and so many of my friends lost absolutely everything.. but I’m blessed to have their lives intact...So many are stuck in this illusion of rebuilding.. which may happen. But the devastation and the losses are so great; I feel as if it’s one giant graveyard full of souls that were not ready and died a horrific death.. may those souls rest peacefully in their own Paradise.

[@SFVnative]

@@justLori530--Racist? Because they wanted a crime and violence free environment? Interesting that nobody minds Asians moving next door. Gee, I wonder why that is. No black home buyers were ever intetested in living there anyway.

[@SFVnative]

@@justLori530--Where have you been staying? We give so much money to the Red Cross; did they not help you?

[@Linaluvv000]

I was effected by this fire too, half of the people didn’t get evacuation calls. The sign we had to leave was the sky was pitch black. My house was in the hottest point, right next to the hospital.

[@callmeishmael4659]

Oh Jesus! I can't even watch that. Imagine being literally enveloped in traffic only to have fire inching closer to you second by second. I'd have been offroading my ass full speed out of there like a bat out of hell

[@johnr.6029]

Off-roading would have ended your life in a ditch, into a tree, or into oncoming traffic or into the back-end of another vehicle. I don't know of anybody who off-roaded it out of there except for crashing through a fence or becoming disabled in a ditch. And I've talked with many people who evacuated like me, out of Paradise.

[@ameeromedia5883]

john r. I watched an hour documentary on this fire on another channel. How in the world did you make it out of there because that place was engulfed from corner to corner. Even the survivors, they never mentioned how they got out.

[@johnr.6029]

​@@ameeromedia5883 Everybody's escape was different. My escape went fairly easily as I slowly drove through town on my way out with hundreds or thousands of others on the same road at the same time. However, right as I thought all was going well, suddenly my escape route turned into a fiery hell, and there was no one behind me. Everything turned dark black. Then fire tornado twisters shot across the roadway in front of me. Trees and brush alongside the road spontaneously burst into flames. Everything turned flaming orange bright and I could actually see the roadway. But I didn't see anyone in front of me or behind me. Where did everybody go? Later I learned that my exit route had been shut off because it had become an inferno. All those behind me had been diverted to a safer escape route, one that took 2+ hours. As soon as I could see maybe 100 - 200 feet in front of me due to the flames, I stepped on the gas. My face was burning through the glass side window. I thought my truck's engine would either melt or die, or I would rear-end someone and crash, or someone would crash into the back of me. Had any of those scenarios happened, I would have sat and burned alive in my truck, or burned alive by getting out of my truck and running - to who knows where. Then, after about 10 minutes of speeding almost blindly on my way down the hill toward Chico, I could see a clearing ahead and sped toward the visual clearing in the sky ahead of me. Just minutes behind me is where I thought I might die! A few minutes later, I was safe in Chico and talking in bewilderment to others who had also survived the exodus! I thank God that I am alive today, and that my wife and mother-in-law, who were minutes behind me, had escaped down the alternate route to safety in Chico.

[@ameeromedia5883]

@@johnr.6029 Woooooooooowww. Thank you so much for sharing and glad you were able to make it out!

[@tiffsaver]

PG&E is the deadliest UTILITY COMPANY in California history.

[@TeddyRumble]

You are worse, racist!

[@G.G556]

This fire got my little cat very ill and some other health problems sprang up on him and I had to put him down during the fires, it was really bad smoke in the air in San Francisco for a long week or more, I hope all effected are slowly gathering themselves,step by step. That cat helped me through a lot. I can’t imagine some people don’t even have anything left at all. Atlease I had closure.

[@elcacheton3868]

Come get a feral cat from my neighborhood in Sacramento . We have like 15

[@markoaurelius2046]

Oh...you at least had closure...but you have one other thing....A DEAD CAT!

[@SFVnative]

@@markoaurelius2046--Down voted.

[@fantasyNamerian]

That's so sad.

[@osamabindiesel3389]

Terry woolcox actually recorded a video immediately after the fire went through his neighborhood and its horrifyingly real. He found the scorched bodies of his neighbors that didn’t make it and you can see what they were doing their very last moments before their death. Highly recommend anyone watch if you can stomach it.

[@aimeejupp7691]

The guy from 14.15 + broke my heart when he started to breakdown about his childhood at this house 😭😭😭 I’m in New Zealand and in Napier a fire just started and then another 3 happen the world is telling us to be prepared if you don’t change the way, and save the world RIP California my prayers will go out for all of you

[@MrHavoc313]

Good Job Vice on the reporting its so hard to find such good journalism these days keep up the good work.

[@doloresperez2554]

More like its so hard to find a good president these days

[@arthursalas8010]

JJ do vice is now what qualifies as good journalism. It all makes sense now

[@alexanderbecker6294]

@@doloresperez2554 just stop

You haven't seen great reporting then. Check out Juan Browne. He can spot a whackadoodle a mile away. He also shows everyone the good side of forest fires and avoids showing the clues of directed energy weapons used. Give him a shot sometime. Tell him whackadoodle sent you!

[@doloresperez2554]

@@alexanderbecker6294 fools

[@binladen4631]

Im hear while the record pasts itself again in 2020

[@ctr0n675]

Your Breaker box sparked and lost 8 football fields of land in 1 minute.

[@markoaurelius2046]

Did the breaker box ever find the 8 foot ball fields? I'd name that breaker box Sparky now.

[@markoaurelius2046]

boy did it ever! Hee hee. No shit sherlock .what was your first clue? I always wanted to say that after a fire that destroyed a whole town in just a few hours. Finally got my opportunity...Hee hee.

[@jayrod9002]

Now it's September 2020, and California fires have set a new record of destruction; the fire season is just beginning.

[@Brian_Moser1118]

i've been to paradise a few times and always thought its such a gorgeous town and that i might live there one day.. and to think that could've been me burnt alive trying to escape its crazy

[@nevaehbolster8925]

My home town🥺

[@navajodoll6320]

I’m Native American and I am considering joining a hotshot team . My great grandpa (full Navajo) said in Navajo “ when it used to rain...it would come in quiet and in abundance, now it’s loud and very little comes . Humans have been naughty and doing bad things , now the earth is starting to do the same.

[@LeonardoDeVinci1452]

I have lived in fire country to think it would never happen. Then you are denial. When I left my home town the county only had 16 thousand residents now it has 60 thousand. They have to be living somewhere. Here is the price of living in the forest area

What is the price? I'm still waiting for your answer! Now it has 60 thousand after the fire? They have to be living somewhere? What are you on?

[@markoaurelius2046]

Leonardo De Vinci WTF is wrong with you? Whatever it is...it's serious! What justifies that statement? You are one sick and disturbed monster!

[@karenengelhardt1610]

@@markoaurelius2046 I get what he meant, though it is a bit mangled. Emotion will do that. The fire and its damage is the cost. People grew complacent about fire danger, and few people thought of outdated electrical equipment. The town narrowly escaped a fire ten years earlier, and in those ten years firebreaks were poorly maintained around many buildings, which helped the spread of the fire. All the years I lived on the ridge I dreaded this very thing.

[@markoaurelius2046]

@@karenengelhardt1610 I never asked you shit! SO BUZZ OFF!

[@markoaurelius2046]

NO The price is being murdered by directed energy weapons! That is what the evidence shows! So don't freaking blame me for saying this! blame the evidence! Fires of any magnitude cannot and will not melt aluminum alloy rims on any automobile like candle wax and leave a plastic trash can in tact! MORONIC Shill POS SKUMBAG! People were incinerated in their vehicles on the streetl...MORONIC SHILL POS SKUMBAG! ENGINE BLOCKS MELTED UNDER THE HOODS OF CARS...YOU MORONIC SHILL POS SKUMBAG! NO WILDFIRE OF ANY MAGNITUDE IS CAPABLE OF DOING THIS...MORINIC SHILL POS SKUMBAG!

[@auxta5355]

This wild fire was soooooo close to where I live, honestly scary.

[@emsalsa9385]

This work would break me. Firefighters are heroes. I wonder when we’re going to learn… I grew up on the border of CA and NV and have lived through fires every year of my life. I now live in Europe where the steps taken towards environmental protection are leaps and bounds different from home…but it’s even getting worse here. This year Portugal, Italy, Greece were all on fire all summer. I wish people would wake up to the fact that our lifestyles have to change. My heart breaks every time I hear about these fires. So many people and so many animals and so much of our beautiful forests are lost.

[@michaelparsons2225]

The blue gum Eucalyptus all over the bay area is a contributing factor as to why the fires are so intense.

[@michelletrimmer6750]

In one fell swoop, a fire wiped a beautiful town off the face of the earth. I live in Nevada so generally we get smoke and sometimes ash from these fires. This one was so horrible. That electric company should have shut off the power. Those 85+ people might be alive.

[@dyanswill]

DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS!!

[@enlightenedhummingbird5101]

Absolutely right! Check out stop the crime dot net, deborah tavares, for what we can expect, WORLDWIDE, going forward.

[@gokaren420]

Strangest fire.....everything kinda melted....weird

[@Lisa-wo8td]

Am I the only person from Europe that followed the news cycle on this fire and do not remember hearing the extent of the deaths? I hope it was just me. Bless you my American friends.

[@pinkfreud62]

85

[@karenengelhardt1610]

@@pinkfreud62 It's possible due to the small but very real homeless population on the ridge that it may be even higher. There's no way to really know.

[@SFVnative]

Thank you.

[@ResurrectedRhythm]

This is so very sad too see it repeating again. God Bless those affected 🙏🙏🙏😢

[@norcalguaponorcalguapo6773]

Thank you Vice for telling the story and not flooding us with political garbage it was refreshing

[@joshuas.686]

@@justLori530 refreshing as in no politics. You want people to use your tragedy to push their political agenda? Be my guest. But I think that's wrong. No one finds this tragedy refreshing

[@joshuas.686]

@@justLori530 but I do hope you get back in your feet.

[@samnorris3649]

"Paradise" Dat dark irony.

[@ctc8326]

Going to have to change that title now

[@matthewsgauge]

Don't trim the trees, removed the dead trees and have proper management of the our forest. Don't blame global warming for not maintaining our safety!

[@athanasia9685]

Imagine how animals feel when there homes are destroyed every year.I respect the lives that where loss in the fire put we got to think about this too. RIP for anyone that loss there lives that day firefighters,people,Animals ETC

[@Ninawena]

Just watched Ron Howard’s documentary on paradise and truly devastating brought me to tears

[@juliancornejo6845]

I'm a California native born and raised here in the city of san Diego it's ashame that my fine state is on fire. The wildfires getting worse every year almost apocalyptic death

[@vonshango6311]

4:00 50mph winds push embers and start many fires, 80 football fields per minute, you cant outrun it. 15:45 home insurers are going to stop insuring homes in rural areas at risk of wildfire. and the state will make taxpayers pay for the lawsuits and keep the utility viable.

[@on2wheels378]

03:30 Good cherry pick on the Sicario sountrack Vice.

[@mohdizzatismat3833]

this is heartbreaking stay safe guys

[@GLDNSTATE]

So that ended up being a very dramatic solar panel/climate change commercial... Conveient .

[@baljittoor2458]

Beautiful picturisation of a horrific event. It is an awakening call for all of us living on this Mother Earth.congratulations to the team.

[@chrisreiser1499]

And our presidents response is get everyone a rake.

[@tomkelly8827]

Cutting dead wood is what you need to do. He had a point but it was very poorly articulated

[@beauberry6179]

Prevention is better than fighting fires. Plus, he allowed federal funds to support reconstruction.

[@williamhiles7404]

Trump is a moron

[@billhavrilla7281]

I didn't know I was so close to losing my life still looking for a home 🙃 😩 I know buddy is going to be so happy ❤

[@z-army481]

i dont understand how the houses completely burned to the ground but the trees in between were almost untouched

[@janbadinski7126]

They aren't untouched. They're still standing but they were burned beyond recovery.

[@paulsmallriver6066]

Z-Army it seems you commented without watching the video

[@hox42]

I remembered when the smoke was heavily spreading around Northern California due to heavy wind

[@bigdave6331]

if they didnt have so many damn environmental laws this wouldnt have happened

[@Opfor-NYC]

The poor slow tortoises :,(

[@thesunsetreptiles]

That must been a really hot fire

[@ryanehlis426]

The wages of sin. There is fun in sin for a season but in the end only ashes. Hell has enlarged itself.

[@vedadc.8727]

At 7:00 it looks like a whole war has broken out on the other side of that hill like holy crap that’s terrible

[@mikedoody2923]

My heart gos out to all the survivors and victims lost our home and almost died in the redwood valley complex fire 2017.

[@padraigkavanagh1663]

heres an idea, use bricks and mortor

MORTOR?

[@xdinaryheroesluv]

Windows explode. Fire spreads through window. House burns from the inside.

[@backroomfireworks4001]

We saw the smoke in NH on the beachs of the east coast.

[@ronaldlangston468]

I miss my home. Too old to start over, all I can do now is live with depression until the end. This sucks...!!!

[@chrissmith9798]

Ronald Langston im so sorry to hear about your loss,really nothing i can say but god speed and god bless😢

[@SFVnative]

If you get a settlement from PG&E maybe you can check out Lake Tahoe or Guerneville and surrounding towns. They look like Paradise and one has a beautiful lake and the other has a nice river with trees and bushes alongside it.

[@MKNYC_]

Great insight from the expert from Stanford. That's really what needs to be discussed here.

[@kumo4236]

Where is the masks for the dogs?

[@dierentnerbravo9282]

America are you fine like...honestly wtf is going on

[@singmysong1167]

what country do you live in?

[@dierentnerbravo9282]

@@singmysong1167 Germany

[@gone7777]

Die Rentnerbravo Direct Energy Weapons. DEW

[@stoneyll]

Trump would rather build his Vanity Wall than fund the real disaster in California..(they didn't vote for hm)

[@grantdubridge7995]

The government doesn't fund the replacement of a house you chose to purchase. That is why you pay for insurance. If you buy wisely you don't buy in a hazardous area.

[@georgewilson6057]

Believe it or not, the wall is actually needed to mitigate refugees caused by climate change.

[@The_yeffy1]

So when I bought my house in a marked flood zone in North Carolina.... the Government is liable for me purchasing a house I know could be submerged? No they aren't its my responsibility to buy flood insurance. Same thing with the people in NC after the Hurricane who were told for years to buy flood insurance and chose not too.

[@JackReacheround]

@@grantdubridge7995 The city needs to rebuild .. you can't very well go on with life as normal if the city can't get basic infrastructure back and up to normal standards. cleaning up and rebuilding costs alot and thats why there are disaster relief funds.

[@cfvgd]

The wall would help the environment a ton. Taking better care of the forest too. Good thing Trump is making America go in the right direction

[@ratatataraxia]

Yeah it sucks, imagine losing everything you own, and trying to move to a new place, but they say no, and want to put up a wall between you.

[@grantdubridge7995]

Your out of your mind. This has nothing to do with illegal immigration. Unless your trying to say people attempted to move to Canada and were refused.

[@gkupos]

We are the ones that make this happen.

[@eazieway3489]

Vice's next video: we need to accept more Muslim refugees in US.

[@terrilynlofing4148]

Oh my, Bryan Gibbons looks like Edward Norton, the actor.

[@candy_cane164]

If someone made cars that can fly with water Bucket it would be easy

[@janehylton7515]

SOME OF US DONE HEARD THE TRUTH MICROWAVE ENERGY WEAPONS DID THIS

[@micmac1121]

The reason Paradise isn’t burning this season is they burnt last season. Welcome to drought and fire out west

[@mondeowagon]

Paradise lost.... I don't think this this is happening i didn't realize this is going to happened hope everyone is okay and save Paradise lost.....

[@v2srikb]

How can the trees be standing with all the leaves right next to a house or bus that's burned to ashes?

[@Guydude79]

50mph winds

[@glennhorvath879]

why no mention of underground electric lines??

[@Misaka-gt5yj]

California has frequent earthquakes (a big one happened recently) alongside santa ana winds. Assuming they have the infrastructure to withstand earthquakes, there is the issue with whether or not they want to fork out the costs that go with construction and maintenance. Some geographical locations are simply not safe for residency.

[@janesimmons1861]

the smart meters were involved?

[@paulmitchell5349]

Directed Energy Weapons or else 5G pulse through the electric systems in the house.

[@lisareed4409]

I been caught up in a forest fire scarey moment of my life

[@jasonleman1396]

this was so bad in san francisco (at least 170 miles away where I lived) we needed to wear masks for almost 2 weeks

[@SFVnative]

170 miles away?? I wonder how people even lived for a half hour in Paradise.

[@ihrtemma542]

The only fire I have ever witnessed was here in Tennessee. I wasn't in it. Nor was I that close to it. But it was about an hour from me (I think). We would be in the yard and ashes would fall in our hair and there was warnings abt the air quality..so we could barely go outside. I was young (at least 10-11 and I'm 13 now) and it was during December. I remember i was omw to practice for the church Christmas play (it was freezing, almost snowing). We looked over at the mountains and saw the fire. I was terrified that it would move over to us..I cried almost all night. It was nowhere near as bad as these fires. And tbh I think it was the only that was in Tennessee. but I cant imagine going through this. I would lose it dude. When I'm older I REFUSE to live in California. Praying for everyone going thru this❤ Edit: there were more fires. I think they were all around Gatlinburg. I was terrified and I wasn't even close to it..

[@kingsamoanOG]

My good buddy works for pg&e doing gas lines and he told me that they have tons and tons of faulty shit and when its brought to their attention they tell the workers it's not in the budget and they will do it later. He said some of the lines are from the 1930s and they simply refuse to fix it until it's to late.

[@jimgritty7064]

Wow.

[@bgroks1]

Organic OG FarmzZ Unfortunately it’s natural that utility companies have lots of debt, the cost to upgrade the lines while also taking the loss of people not being able to pay for the power they don’t receive, and then the fines they owe, so either they accumulate more debt, or take a large loss and possibly fail to make a debt payment. PGE estimated the time to replace the lines and clean up brush is a few years.. I believe it was 5 years that they said.They are testing controlled blackouts to wild fire prone areas like a San Diego company has been doing.. but then they run into the issue of people only having internet based phones that go out when the power does.. so 911 won’t work, and also people who need medical devices to live. Unfortunately, there is no simple quick fix.

[@Austin-do8se]

Jeez. That's horrible!

[@lynnwood7205]

@ Operate to failure. Divert monies directly given by the State of California for the maintenance of brush and timber clearance along power lines to executive bonuses and stock dividends Decide not to cut power in order not to be required to pay food spoilage claims.

[@AscheDjidoi]

The only thing they care to protect is their administration fees.

[@michaelvalencia7234]

To everyone who lost everything I’m sorry I was one of the many hot shot crews on scene and I can tell you my crew tried our ass off to stop it at the canyon.. it spotted so much over our backs that we couldn’t do anything I am so so sorry...

[@FaithandNova]

@Shon East many don't understand that. If God says there's nothing none of us can do 😔

[@michaelvalencia7234]

Shon East yeah just sucked we couldn’t hold our lines at all literally spotted over us the whole time

[@kylemontano228]

michael valencia you did your best, and that’s all that matters. Thank you to you and all other hotshots

[@johnettastevens4906]

Look to the back of your bible my friends, I fear we are closer to the end than we think.

[@Amy-fg6in]

Thank you for helping them 🙏🏼❤️

[@Heavenclone]

This was just the beginning. Here we are in September 2020 and California is burning even worse. Stay Safe.

[@samahita-vca]

I honestly thought that it was made recently. I just noticed that it was made over a year ago from the comment section. Dear God, how are these people and more doing with the worse fire this year? My heart goes for those affected by this worst of time.

[@colonelbeatson6027]

think before you speak ok us australians are here you know.

[@ericunderwood1482]

@@colonelbeatson6027 YEAH....I remember watching Australia and crying....damn fires jumped the Pacific.... Hey my Dad was over there in WWII ... Paupa and Bloody Buna Sanananda... First big shipment of American GIs to the Pacific Theaters.... PFC Eugene H Dog Underwood 32d 126th Combat Infantry Regiment and 2d Engineer Special Brigade Amphibious 592d Boat and Shore Regiment He had a sweetie in Rockhampton...

[@Darkdevil1584]

this year gonna be worse because theres no hotshots

[@genesiss420]

@@Darkdevil1584 and no water in the lakes

[@WeylandLabs]

Rest In Peace for the good folks of Paradise that didn't make it. My heart goes out to the families of the victims. God Bless ❤

Hey Brosyden..if you had a true heart, you would expose all of this hanky panky that took place in the form of genocide. That's how the Lord wants you do treat it. If not..you aren't for the Lord. You work for the devil! Got that! prove me wrong and I will eat my words there maestro!

[@markoaurelius2046]

What was it that they were making?

[@jezdzicnaczerwonodostacgow7756]

Markus Allen chill he was just making a statement and showing gratitude, just accept that...

[@obadiahscave]

Socialism: accepting immigrants and giving them free food and money, rich are providing you with wages that are insufficient, the government pushing an ideology that is sinking you.. you love socialism, you praised socialism, now you reap the rewards of socialism...

[@mashamitchell9574]

I feel bad for the pets that were left behind with no chance of escaping.

[@lolzormachine]

There's so many unclaimed pets out here.

[@nathanb5994]

Also all the dead children , but y'kno poor whiskers..

[@MannyRoad]

Masha Mitchell what about the actual humans that died? Stop caring about animals and get your priorities straight

[@lolzormachine]

And this is why the planet is dying@@MannyRoad

[@adamfidelio1213]

@@MannyRoad Stop comparing everything you morons. @Masha mitchell felt bad for the pets that were left behind

[@owenbrown5763]

My house burnt down in Paradise. Times have been though but we will get through it.

[@Dreadz530]

Mine too brother and I work for a tree service so I am literally working in this shit for 8 -10 hours a day. Every day I come home covered in black from the burnt and it's sad. I literally can spin a circle and as far as the eye can see it looks like a nuclear bomb wiped everything out. I get lost all the time trying to get to jobs because there are no land marks anymore and every road looks the same. I'm still waiting for the scene in this movie to end and them to clean everything.

[@tatertots3888]

May God bless you two.

[@danlaroche6025]

I'm fixing to start working up there, doing Phase 3 cleanup. Butte County still needs help.

[@TheNimshew]

Mine did too. Though,I’m not sure my town will survive. One tenth the population in the future won’t support the business we had. No hospital, fewer schools,services. I’m questioning why even be a town anymore. It really doesn’t make sense.

[@danlaroche6025]

Not yet. Waiting to take certification courses for Hazmat and OSHA. I just want to get started, so at least the misery isn't so visable. It will be hard to contain hazardous materials with all the rain.

[@Billyboy4209]

I have been doing work up there and the pictures and videos don’t do it justice. When you go through town in the 1st days of the cleanup and You see all the abandoned cars on the roads that clearly the people had to run for their live from, you can’t help but break down in tears...

[@TheNimshew]

At least 14,000 burnt vehicles. How many trees have to come down? 100,000+? 15 million cubic feet of hazardous waste. 200 to 250 tons of material per footprint! They haven’t started phase two yet. When they do, it’ll destroy the roads. One thousand truckloads a day? Sure. They’re delusional, or liars.

[@Billyboy4209]

Markus Allen hahaha,troll much? Nice try sweetheart 😘🖕🏻💯

[@markoaurelius2046]

How could it do justice? Justice doesn't exist anymore. Had it still been in existence, you would be in jail too. But you aren't. "Nuf" said! IF you can't dazzle 'em with brains...you can always dazzle 'em with your bullshit!

[@Spike.SpiegeI]

great coverage by VICE. I hadn't seen other stories showing the impact like this. It's devastating to see...

[@markoaurelius2046]

Great lies too! Can I lick the bowl before it's poured into the pan?

[@markoaurelius2046]

So you avoid checking for any lies of deception from media...you just go by the impact level of the story. If it's devastating to see, why did you look? Or did you peek through the spaces in your fingers and let on like you didnt see it? I know...Vice would never lie now would they? Hee heee haaa haa hee hee haa aahaaa haaaaa haaaaa

[@Darkdevil1584]

@@markoaurelius2046 lol as a wild land firefighter ask me anything bruh. ill be glad to clarify anything for you:X

[@lyellgurski483]

If you want to see another really good view on the campfire/Malibu fire, Bring Your Own Brigade is an amazing documentary on it.

[@TeddyRumble]

To put shyster lawyers on, hoping to get rich from a tragedy. Vultures.

[@eddysaidtht]

Watching this for the second time almost a year later and this shit is still sad asf.

[@CormacHolland]

eddysaidtht me too. What’s crazy is that after the cameras stop rolling, people are still forced into homelessness from this fire. And more fires this week.

[@builtbypi2276]

The transition from 6:50-6:54 is incredible

[@HansWurst-xs2ru]

unbelivable. Like from night to day

[@xxitsmeboi_stxckxx8354]

yea..

[@Brian_Moser1118]

give that editor a raise !

[@markuse3472]

That seems to have been edited to suit her words.

[@100consciouseternallightho6]

@ Sounds like to me you are having a good laugh. Are you smoking that weed?

[@maliaminer3324]

But the hope didn’t disappear. The high school was fixed up and the 2019 graduates got to graduate on their field and PG&E did in fact file for bankruptcy

[@rockss2422]

The world is just depressing

[@trifectat8694]

I think its wonderful world, its all in the mind some people live in bliss in shit conditions and some people are miserable living lavish.

[@rockss2422]

It’s my opinion

[@doloresperez2554]

@@trifectat8694 ok, trump whatever you say

[@alexanderbecker6294]

@@doloresperez2554 why are you so anti trump

[@gone7777]

Direct. Direct. Direct Energy Weapons like on purpose

[@Aaron-is9xo]

Should start putting power lines underground, like they are doing a lot lately.

[@irumicu]

California is earthquakes prone.

[@johnr.6029]

I owned a home (it burned in the fire) on Timber Ln. in Paradise off Pentz Rd. near Dean Rd. PG&E just finished putting underground power lines on the whole street maybe a week ago. This represents maybe 30 homes (former homes, anyway).

[@TeddyRumble]

Very, very expensive, and vandalism.

[@karenengelhardt1610]

Props to all the firefighters that came from southern cal, oregon and washington to help with this. I lived here for many years and will never be back. Can't.

[@colonelbeatson6027]

think before you speak ok us australians are here you know.

[@lottebussink4844]

Imagine all the animals that died or people where on a vacation and no one took their animals... im so sad for all the people who died because of this.😭

[@themilitantvegan2515]

But trump says it's cold in the Midwest so all is ok

[@kilomilo917]

Everyone knows trump knows way more than those stupid scientists (sarcasm)

[@adgtheg4146]

This is the West not the mid west, I'm in Utah and it's fucking freezing.

[@sheacarrigan8868]

This is Northern California

[@themilitantvegan2515]

@@sheacarrigan8868 lol you folks seriously don't get what I am saying

[@NelliSmith]

But the Cheeto is an umbrella expert that also makes him a climate expert. Be nice guys!

[@chadsmith66]

Poor forest management, no prescribed burns, lots of fuel on forest floor along with being so dry

[@souvikrc4499]

And climate change and aging infrastructure...

[@chadsmith66]

More like Geoengineering the weather

[@enlightenedhummingbird5101]

This was all planned, and more to come worldwide. Check out stop the crime dot net, deborah tavares, and their version of events.

[@siyabongamngomezulu9743]

@@johnperic6860 drought.

[@BV-nq7wd]

I was a lucky one. I had just upgraded all my Lighting in my home to LEDs, touched up the paint inside and out. I made it as perfect as I could get Just had the carpets cleaned the day before the fire. The home was vacant. I had planned on turning it into my retirement home. In a flash it was gone.

[@InvalidCharacter]

6:58 My sister recorded that, I still look back at it and thank the heavens that me and my family escaped safely. We were lucky compared to many other people. I escaped my school at about 8:03 AM, and my school started burning at 8:30 AM, from what I know.

[@iheartbrentfaiyaz]

Lost everything. definitely the worst day of my life. Rip paradise

[@eyeofenigma2307]

*California is undergoing a new faze in which we become more Orange than Trump*

[@lilbashirali]

Lol

[@scurvy_dog]

bruh this is funny

[@jkfilms6738]

seeing stuff like that makes me want to be a firefighter or EMS person.

[@janbadinski7126]

It looks like you would make a great first responder. I hope you choose that area for a career.

[@jkfilms6738]

@@janbadinski7126 well one of my goals is the navy for a bit but yeah.

[@janbadinski7126]

@@jkfilms6738 They can teach you stuff as a good head start for your (hopefully) new career.

EMS person? Do you want to be a firefighter person?

[@nancyking2867]

J&K films Then you should do it, I'm sure they could use you.

[@81jeremylbradley]

I seriously feel that this incident is up there with Katrina. But yet no one on the east is talking about it. Thank you VICE for youre work. America is such a different place than one it was in the 80s and 90s. We’re all neighbors but also strangers.

[@AndTecks]

a lot of my family lost everything. Its incredibly sad. My father did an interview for the news and fortunately got a lot of support. He stayed through the fire to help save his horse and dogs.

[@retiredarthritic2083]

A Canadian company has been selected to help rebuild Paradise, the northern California community that was almost entirely destroyed by a raging wildfire in November. Calgary-based Black Diamond Group Ltd. says its U.S. business unit has won a $20-million rental contract to supply portable housing units with 1,584 beds to support reconstruction. It says the initial term of the contract is for nine months, with an option to extend, and includes transportation costs.

[@100consciouseternallightho6]

Do you think this is about "follow the money"?

[@TeddyRumble]

Send money out of country. Smart. Typical Democrat move.

[@Mythril_Pulaski]

Lived in Paradise for 18 years, and in a matter of hours it was decimated. It makes me so sad to see it gone, and to see my townsfolk scattered and homeless is incredibly disheartening

[@ShortysShadow]

If you ever been there. You know the beautiful scenes we had. Oh I will treasure those years. Good luck to everyone who lost their homes to loved ones also that didn't loose anything God Bless You All. May the new year bring more positive perspectives but most of all enjoy yourself and stay strong.

[@thatonekid701]

I grew up in paradise, we my not get much snow and rain, but the clean air , amazing veiw was worth it

[@aenorist2431]

Powerlines need to be very large steel pylons, local distribution underground. This is only even a discussion because the US has third world infrastructure.