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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dani Anguiano

‘The PTSD is horrible’: for Californians who survived tragedy, new blazes stir trauma

Orange flames, night, truck with headlights on
The Park fire jumps Highway 36 near Paynes Creek in Tehama county, California, on 26 July 2024. Photograph: Noah Berger/AP

As the biggest fire of the season raged through northern California on Saturday, Stephen Murray wasn’t taking any chances.

The Paradise resident loaded up his vehicle and prepared to flee with his wife and children. Almost six years after the Camp fire destroyed his hometown and killed 85 people, the community was under an evacuation warning due to the Park fire, which had scorched nearly 350,000 acres.

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