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Paradise Football Players Emerge From Fire Stronger and Undefeated

Elizabeth Lee

   LOS ANGELES - The football players at Paradise High School are proof
   that, in the face of disaster, it is often the youth who are the most
   resilient.

   Ninety percent of the team's Northern California town was destroyed
   Nov. 8, 2018, by what is now called the Camp Fire. Most of the players
   lost their homes to the fire.

   Only half of the students in the district returned after one of the
   deadliest and most destructive fires in the state's history. Out of
   nine schools, there are now four. Only three of the football players
   still live in Paradise. The rest are in other towns, and some are
   commuting more than an hour to school.

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