The new abnormal

摘要

As THE FLAMES moved toward Helltown, a former gold-mining settlement, the headlines wrote themselves. Part of northern California had become an inferno. A nearby town, Paradise, which a week before had 26,000 residents, was incinerated and reduced to ash. Nearly 50 people are confirmed dead and over 200 missing, making "Camp Fire" (named after the road where it began) the deadliest in the state's history. About 130,000 acres, an area nearly the size of Chicago, has already burned.