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Photos: Paradise moves forward, 5 years after the Camp Fire

Before-and-after photo sliders reveal how the Northern California town has changed since the deadly blaze

AuthorAuthorKarl Mondon, staff photojournalist, San Jose Mercury News, for his Wordpress profile. (Michael Malone/Bay Area News Group)Author
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See from ground-level and from the skies how parts of Paradise, California, have changed in the five years since the Camp Fire — California’s deadliest and most destructive ever. Bay Area News Group photographers Karl Mondon and LiPo Ching documented the town on foot and from above via drone in the days immediately after the Nov. 8, 2018 inferno killed 85 residents and razed homes and businesses. Use the sliders below to compare then and now.

Click here to read our full report on Paradise five years later.

Ridgewood Mobile Home Park

Valley Ridge Drive

Dawnridge Court

Melene Court