Good Samaritans in the Burn Zone
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At 9 a.m. on November 8, 2018, three Gordon alumni and their families were in bumper-to-bumper traffic on one of the three roads out of Paradise, CA, along with 26,000 other people trying to escape California’s deadliest wildfire.
Complicated Miracles: Life in Paradise a Year After the Camp Fire
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Last year in November, the Camp Fire hit Katherine Sorich’s ’05 hometown like a tidal wave, displacing 52,000 people and laying waste to 14,000 residences, but her house wasn’t one of them.