By Ryan Sabalow, The Sacramento Bee, April 29, 2020
The town of Paradise and the surrounding communities had burned to the ground. The victims, many of them poor and with nowhere to go, barely escaped. They were exhausted and scared.
Then the norovirus hit as they crammed together in churches and a local fairground. They shared restrooms and slept shoulder-to-shoulder on cots.
At the East Ave Church in Chico, some 300 Camp Fire evacuees had it better than some others in Butte County. Only about 10 evacuees at the church got sick, said Ron Zimmer, one of the churchβs pastors.
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