California's deadliest wildfire chased people from Paradise, and they sought solace in nearby Chico. A year later, the city that didn't burn has been transformed by the 20,000 people that stayed.
In this Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, photo, Amber Blood looks at a figurine she found in the ashes of her home lost in last year's Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif. Blood is one of the estimated 20,000 former Paradise residents now living in Chico after the fire. A real estate agent, Blood said she even had trouble finding a home after the fire because there was not much available.
A year later, most are still there. State officials estimate Chico has added 20,000 people, boosting the population from 92,000 to more than 112,000. The city didn’t expect that number until at least 2030. Aside from housing shortages and more traffic, the influx has strained the city in unexpected ways. About three weeks after the fire, Chico’s sewer system was handling an additional million gallons a day, or the equivalent of adding an extra 5,000 homes.
“Our community is completely different than it once was, and it will always be completely different,” Cline said. When Blood finally bought a house a few months later from a woman who was moving overseas, she said she paid the seller an extra $7,000 to leave the furniture.Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law this summer designed to speed up construction of new housing by temporarily suspending the state’s lengthy environmental review process for fire-affected areas. But the law does not include Chico because Mayor Randall Stone and most of the City Council opposed it.
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