Photos: Remembering the victims on the second anniversary of the Camp Fire

The Camp Fire, which began Nov. 8, 2018, is the deadliest and most destructive wildfire so far in California history, killing 85 people and destroying nearly 19,000 buildings. The blaze wiped out 90 percent of the town of Paradise and left tens of thousands of people homeless.

The town of Concow was almost completely destroyed, losing about 95% of its structures. The town of Magalia also suffered damage, with 50% of the structures destroyed, and the community of Butte Creek Canyon was largely impacted as well. The total cost of the fire, including firefighting resource, was $16.65 billion dollars.

The fire, was officially contained Nov. 25, was started in the Butte County hills by power lines belonging to Pacific Gas & Electric. In December 2019, the utility made a settlement offer of $13.5 billion for the wildfire victims, which covered the Camp Fire and several other devastating fires caused by PG&E. In June 2020, the utility pled guilty on 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter.

PARADISE CA – NOV. 8: People gather on Skyway in Paradise, Calif., marking the one year anniversary of the deadly Camp Fire, holding an 85-second moment of silence for the 85 people who lost their lives, Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE CA – NOV. 8: A large crowd gathers on Skyway in Paradise, Calif., to mark the one year anniversary of the deadly Camp Fire, with a dedication ceremony for Hope Plaza, Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE CA – NOV. 8: People gather on Skyway in Paradise, Calif., marking the one year anniversary of the deadly Camp Fire, holding an 85-second moment of silence for the 85 people who lost their lives, Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE CA – NOV. 8: Kelly and Dan Devine chose the one year anniversary of the Camp Fire to get married in an outdoor wedding among the charred oaks of his family’s destroyed home, Friday, Nov. 8, 2019, in Paradise, Calif. The couple both graduated from Paradise High School twenty years ago and held their ceremony near a sign, “Reseeding Paradise With Love.” (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE CA – NOV. 8: Ceremonies marking the one year anniversary of the Camp Fire take place in Paradise, Calif., Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Crosses commemorate the victims of the Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in state history, on Jan. 24, 2019, on a hilltop in Paradise. (Karl Mondon — Bay Area News Group)
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 21: 85 pairs of shoes with flowers in each pair of them representing the camp fire victims, are displayed during a protest outside Pacific Gas and Electric Company headquarters in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, June 21, 2019. While the peaceful protest was going on, PG&E shareholders attended the 2019 joint annual meetings inside the building. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 21: A few dozen activists from different groups protest as 85 pairs of shoes with flowers in each pair of them represent the camp fire victims , are displayed during a protest outside Pacific Gas and Electric Company headquarters in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, June 21, 2019. While the peaceful protest was going on, PG&E shareholders attended the 2019 joint annual meetings inside the building. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 23: The gates to the Gold Nugget Museum remain locked, Friday, Nov. 23, 2018, more than two weeks after the town of Paradise, Calif. was destroyed by the Camp Fire. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CA – June 23: Ryan Wright serves as the outreach pastor at Paradise Alliance Church where a tree destroyed in last November’s Camp Fire has been carved into a symbol of Christian hope for the recovering Paradise, Calif. community, Sunday, June 23, 2019. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)Outreach Pastor
BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 12: The sun peaks through the smokey skies from the Camp Fire and a PG&E transmission line, Monday, November 12, 2018, three miles west of Pulga, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 21: Firefighters search for human remains in the ashes of the Black Bear Diner in Paradise, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, nearly two weeks after the Camp Fire started. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 6: Patterns of ash remains dot the scarred landscape near Paradise, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, one month after the deadly Camp Fire. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CA – JAN. 23: Christina Taft visits the commemorative cross honoring her mother, Victoria Taft, one of 86 Camp Fire victim crosses set up on a hillside in Paradise, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
SACRAMENTO, CA – JAN. 22: Camp Fire victims Randy Viehmeyer and Lisa Butcher of Paradise brought signs to a rally on the steps of the state capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, protesting PG&E’s plan to file for bankruptcy. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Robin Wilson, 34, of Chico, looks at what is left of her 4,700 square foot two story home that was destroyed in the Camp Fire, in unincorporated Chico, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018. Wilson and others in her neighborhood were allowed to return to their homes by authorities. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 5: Angie Dodge (right) hugs her neighbor Tama Czarnecki, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, after returning to find their homes destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 21: A visitor pays respects to the victims of the Camp Fire as they are remembered by 86 crosses installed on Skyway in Paradise, Calif., Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 6: Ponderosa Elementary School in Paradise, Calif., looks largely intact, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, one month after the deadly Camp Fire raged, though some modular buildings and the cafeteria were destroyed. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CA – NOVEMBER 11: University of Nevada Reno archaeology students search for human remains in a mobile home park in Paradise, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. Twenty-three people have died so far in the destructive Camp Fire. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 10: A burned raccoon roams around after the fatal Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CA – NOVEMBER 10: Burned cars and melted aluminum are seen along Pearson Road in Paradise, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. The Camp Fire is so far the most destructive wildfire in California history. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
The Camp Fire rages in Magalia Nov. 9, 2018, as Sacramento Metropolitan firefighters battle the flames. The fire burned for 18 days and was determined fully contained when rainstorms hit the area. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group file)
Christina Hixson, of Paradise, who lost her home in the Camp Fire, holds her dog Peanut in the parking lot of the Walmart were she and her family now live in Chico, Calif., on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. Hixson is one of many Paradise residents camping in tents and RV’s in Walmart’s parking lot. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CA – NOVEMBER 08: Juanita and Wayne McClish sit on a curb in the Save Mart parking lot where they fled after losing their home to the Camp Fire raging through Paradise, Calif., Thursday, November 8, 2018. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Aaron Ropp digs in the ashes of the family home with his father Dave Ropp, finding family heirlooms, including two sculptures created by a Polish aunt, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. It was the family’s first visit back to the house since the deadly Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 10: Krystin Harvey pauses in front of her home on Grinding Rock Avenue, destroyed by the Camp Fire, in Paradise, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. Harvey along with her husband, their three girls, 19, 17, and 16, her cousin and two dogs survived the fatal fire because they didn’t evacuate. Also they lost their home to the Humboldt Fire in 2008, they said. They evacuated back then but not this time. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CA – NOVEMBER 13: Chico State forensics experts sift through human remains of a Camp Fire victim in Paradise, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
The Camp Fire burn on Neal Road in Paradise, California, Thursday, November 8, 2018. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
CHICO, CA – NOVEMBER 12: Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea rubs his eyes after announcing the new Camp Fire death total of 42 during a press conference at incident command center at the Silver Dollar Fair Ground in Chico, Calif., on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018. Thirteen more victims were found on Monday. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
Firefighters battle the Camp Fire in Magalia, Calif., Friday, November 9, 2018. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CA – NOVEMBER 10: A Firefighter from Oregon checks for victims off Bille Road in Paradise, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. The Camp Fire is so far the most destructive wildfire in California history. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
Cathy Fallon waits as her son, Gabriel Fallon, sifts through the remains of her home in Paradise, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 9, 2019. Fallon and her husband survived the Camp Fire as it came through their neighborhood. Her husband was taken to the hospital early Friday. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
West Sacramento firefighters battle a Camp Fire on Honey Run Road in Paradise, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
PARADISE, CA – NOVEMBER 11: Two angels are seen amid fire rubble along Elliott Road in Paradise, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. Twenty-three people have died so far in the destructive Camp Fire. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)