Evacuee Roxanne Peters had planned to prepare food tomorrow, for Thanksgiving dinner. "I was celebrating at two different houses. We were invited to two different places, and I was cooking, you know, potluck," she said. Both those homes burned to the ground in the historic Camp Fire. The scale of the fire's destruction is so spread out that very little of the towns of Paradise, Magalia and Concow remain. So far, the fire scorched 230 square miles — an area the size of Chicago. "I'll be giving thanks this year that we made it out alive," Peters says. So many evacuees have fled to nearby Chico, prompting local businesses to try and give them a place to exhale. "When you see them come in they have ash on their clothes. Or their face has soot on it. Because you don't know what they were doing," says Breanna Fischer, manager the Buffalo Wild Wings near the disaster recovery center. It's brought a stream of customers with different stories of survival. The restaurant is usually closed on
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