Students who lost nearly everything in California's Camp Fire graduate from high school
With the confetti poppers and the selfie sticks, from a distance, the graduating class of Paradise High School looked like any other group of high school seniors, but something was different.
The fire began on Nov. 8, 2018, in Butte County, burned through thousands of homes and more than 150,000 acres. It also killed at least 85 people, many in Paradise. The 27,000-person town was especially hard hit in the fire. Later that month, an 89-year-old real estate magnate from Southern California, with no connection to Paradise, hand-delivered $1,000 checks to each of the 1,085 students and staff.
"I love these kids," said high school principal Loren Lighthall."Super proud of them for enduring, for living in trailers, for driving an hour each way, for overcoming all that to get here on the field tonight."
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