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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dani Anguiano in Berry Creek

A California town was leveled by a wildfire. Three years on, it feels the world has forgotten

Two white children sit with their legs hanging off a large tree stump poking up from a low hillside, each holding a cat in their laps, with an unfinished new home behind them.
Alex and Emmery DuVall sit on a burned tree stump on their property, where they live in a trailer until they can build a home in Berry Creek, California. Photograph: Rachel Bujalski/The Guardian

An eight-mile wall of flames. Nearly 200,000 acres burned in 24 hours. Sixteen deaths.

In any other modern decade, the events that unfolded in and around Berry Creek, California, in 2020 would have stood apart for their sheer devastation.

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