Paradise

I thought the author did a good job of gathering stories from many different sides of the event, as well as showing the positive and negative sides to human beings.

She dove into why PGnE was the one that started the flames and why but what I would like to know is did the residents of Paradise ever acknowledge their part in the catastrophe? There were so many mentions that the flames moves much more rapidly than most fires do but didn't really clarify what folks determined why. Was it a combination of the communities enthusiasm for being surrounded by nature and duff as well as the extremely dry weather?

One thing it took me awhile to understand was that Paradise is north of San Francisco. I've not watched the local or cable news channels or read news papers in decades, so I had always assumed this was in Southern California where all the fires from the 80s and 90s were occurring. I've driven thru the smoldering n blackened countryside in the north bay area of the San Francisco area, so I can now align Paradise with these memories, and time, in my mind.