| "I haven't been home since the fire started. I expect to go back home as soon as possible. My dog is still there," Cynthia Rowe,a 61-year-old resident of Paradise, told Xinhua. She spent eight hours in reaching Chico after driving through burning wood. "It was terrible," she said. "I had to spend two nights in the camp at the church in Chico, as it was the only place to go." Another resident of Paradise watched her home completely burn down. "It was just one hundred percent devastating," said Tonya Boyd. She had no plans to go back to Paradise again since all her relatives' houses in the town were damaged. "There's nothing left. Everything's just completely destroyed," she said. "We're all gonna look for a place in Chico. I don't want to go too far because we've been here (for) twenty plus years." | 
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