11.19.2018 - By San Francisco Chronicle
CHICO, Butte County — Tents sprawled in a parking lot. Cots jammed side by side in a fairgrounds. Desperation on the faces of the parents and children with nothing but smoking ruins to go home to. The devastating Camp Fire that wiped out the town of Paradise and savaged neighborhoods for miles around in Butte County has shoved 52,000 people out of their homes.