We had a house in Paradise and sold it a few years before that fire. A lot of people were proud to have trees blocking view from their street. You had to get a permit to remove a tree. I only thought what a fire would do to that city.
Ron Howard made a movie “Rebuilding Paradise”. I bought the DVD.
I remember watching a news report a few days after the Paradise fire.
They were standing in front of a foundation with only the chimney remaining.
There were at least five trees within 10-15’ of the house.
I said to my wife: “no wonder the whole town burned down”.
They were living in the forest with huge trees overhanging the houses.
I live in southern NH. When I bought this 1972 house 14 years ago there were multiple trees within 15’ of the house.
It screwed up the drainage. Even though the house sits on a hill 40’ above the road I would get water in the basement in the late winter early spring.
I hired a logging crew that cut for a week. I have 12 acres.
I then hired an excavator twice. They corrected the drainage problem and cleared about 2 acres, brought in a bunch of loam. Now, my biggest problem is that I had to buy a Skag 52” commercial mower to keep the time mowing down.
I have not had water in the basement for over almost 12 years.