A Year After Paradise Burned, What Comes Next Is Still a Mystery
PARADISE , Calif. — Paradise is a township of negative space , a looking chicken feed projecting what was and what will be . A year ago this workweek , the Camp Firereduced the legal age of the Ithiel Town to rubble in a few short hours . It spurred thegreatest debris cleanup in Californiasince the 1906 San Francisco earthquake . It ’s still going on today , contractor pickups plaster with various acronyms lurch the Ithiel Town ; crews still restoring ability and cable , ensuring there ’s clean water , hauling detritus , and otherwise trying to lay the foundation for a next Paradise that may bear little resemblance to the one that vanished a year ago ....