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Yeah, it's perfect. >> wow. a very zen mind state. >> exactly. there is a lot of people who can benefit from doing this. >> you ain't kidding. i pay $125 for therapy. i just come up here. >> the leaders are supposed to be in charge of california's environment still feel they're at war with wildfire, and no one is getting it right. as long as we keep fighting that war, we're spending billions of dollars a year and fire is still burning down the lands. we've been fighting for 100 years. now it's teamed up with climate change. we need a truce, you know. come up with some terms, a settlement. like...

Wilderness. this is called the wildland urban interface. basically, if fire is a gang, then we're invading its territory. and since there is no quick fix to climate change or our forest fuels problems, wildfires aren't backing down from their territory. so why don't we just leave? well, people have called this land home since long before it was called california. and home can't be so easily replaced. walking through paradise, you can feel a town that refuses to go away. but you can also see that it's still going to take a lot of time to get it to come back. four years later, so many residents ...

>> matt and joe both lost their homes there. so that's what was different about the camp fire is that it finally hit our home community. >> just a blanket statement. i haven't talked about the camp fire much. >> okay. >> hopefully i don't choke up. i haven't had to get that out of my system yet. >> yeah, you know. even with the work that you do and the work you do every day, it's got to be hard to think about this side of it and this side of it, you know. so i understand. >> yeah, so i was off-duty, and i got a text message from a buddy of mine who was in the valley. and he goes hey, man, a pr...

6:15 a.m. on november 8th, november 18, off camp creek road. it quickly grew into what would become known as the camp fire, one of california's most devastating and deadly records on fire. >> it was november. so i don't want to say our guard was down. but in november, typically we would be having rain and winter, and we weren't. >> now when we talk about fires we think about firefighters running into a burning house to put the fire out. but in a wildfire situation, it can be a whole town. and often it's the town the firefighters live in. that's the situation chief joe tapia, chief sean norman ...

Forgot. home to creatures both strange and wonderful. amazing things happen up in the trees. this blurry picture of my mom and dad from 2018 was taken in las vegas. i took it because i don't have that many pictures of my parents together, because they ain't together. it was an unusual event made more unusual because we'd all gone to vegas to escape this. >> devastating news out of california. >> the camp fire. >> the camp fire. >> the camp fire. >> houses in flames, forests being scorched. >> this never happened before. >> the most destructive fire in