One year ago, thousands of northern Californians were fleeing the Camp Fire,a huge wildfire that killed 85 people, destroyed 95 percent of the town of Paradise and burned more than 150,000 acres.Yesterday, residents and officials marked the anniversary with a small ceremony and 85 seconds of silence,one for each victim of the fire in a town that is still struggling to recover.San Francisco Chronicle reporter Lizzie Johnson joins us now from Paradise, California.So as I understand that you've been actually living part time in Paradise for the last year, doing your reporting.Tell us, what's it like there now, one year later?The big emphasis is on rebuilding. So when you drive around town, it's not just burnt down lots and homes and buildings.It's a blank slate. It's driving past you know what looks like entire fields of empty dirt.Do we have a sense of how many people are planning to return?So there's no exact data. But the town manager did say that the town of Paradise has received about 500 building permits since last year.So that's the best estimate they have been since last November, 15 houses have been rebuilt. And keep in mind that 14,000.What are the people who are staying or returning, what are they saying? I mean, how are they feeling?It's hard. The ceremony yesterday, officials were talking about how the amount of debris in Paradiseafter the Camp Fire was two and a half times what came down in New York City after the 9/11 attacks.
