Fire in Paradise

I was tearing up the whole time. It's a heartbreaking point of view from a few victims caught in the horrific "camp fire" fire. There's videos from phones and dash cans and I was on the edge of my seat and tearing up. I definitely recommend watching this.

Towards the end of the documentary I saw a skeleton in a car, but it may not have been real. To my knowledge, all cadavers were removed as soon as they were found. Nobody was allowed back into Paradise until everything had been inspected, which took a couple of months. If they were joking about the skeleton being there, it was in very poor taste.

At least this is not as bad as the widely debunked frontline which cast around for blame ignoring the science.

The science clearly shows that long term severe drought and major wildfires have been endemic in California history for hundreds of thousands of years. since the last glacial maximum the numbers of fires in California for thousands of years, and before that, before the last glacial period massive drought and endemic wildfires occurred regularly for hundreds of thousands of years.

The only thing making that worse today is the massive over-development of California. Specifically massive development into fire prone areas where soil sample strata show there were regular wildfires all along.

Oh "record setting" damage to property and loss of life? ONLY because of the record setting population and record setting amount of real estate where there once was none.

This was an amazingly done documentary on how quickly devastation can happen. I applaud all survivors and am amazed at all the volunteer efforts. The emergency crews were amazing and I hope to see a second part on the rebuilding of Paradise

Rarely is the bad thing about a documentary that its too short, but in this case it felt like the story was cut off quite abruptly. A well made doc though, compelling story and relevant interviews.