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Returning resident Frank Windt checks his home that was burned in the Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. Hundreds of residents were finally allowed back into neighborhoods a month after a blaze killed at least 85 people and destroyed about 14,000 homes. More than 50,000 people in Paradise and the neighboring communities of Magalia and Concow were forced to quickly flee the towering, wind-driven flames that charred 240 square miles (622 square kilometers). (AP Photo/Haven Daley)

Jerry McLean folds the flag that was flying outside the remains of his home Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, in Paradise, Calif. Some residents of a California town devastated by a catastrophic wildfire nearly a month ago were finally allowed to return home to sift through the charred remains in search of precious family heirlooms, photos and other possessions. (AP Photo/Don Thompson)

Jerry McLean, wearing a hazmat suit, holds out some old coins that he found in the remains of his home Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, in Paradise Calif. Some residents of a California town devastated by a catastrophic wildfire nearly a month ago were finally allowed to return home to sift through the charred remains in search of precious family heirlooms, photos and other possessions. A long line of cars waited in a cold drizzle at a checkpoint on their way to neighborhoods on the east side of Paradise. (AP Photo/Don Thompson)

Jerry McLean, wearing a hazmat suit, looks over his father's vice grip that he found in the remains of his home Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, in Paradise Calif. Some residents of a California town devastated by a catastrophic wildfire nearly a month ago were finally allowed to return home to sift through the charred remains in search of precious family heirlooms, photos and other possessions. A long line of cars waited in a cold drizzle at a checkpoint on their way to neighborhoods on the east side of Paradise. (AP Photo/Don Thompson)

Joyce McLean, wearing a hazmat suit, looks through the remains of her home Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, in Paradise Calif. Some residents of a California town devastated by a catastrophic wildfire nearly a month ago were finally allowed to return home to sift through the charred remains in search of precious family heirlooms, photos and other possessions. A long line of cars waited in a cold drizzle at a checkpoint on their way to neighborhoods on the east side of Paradise. (AP Photo/Don Thompson)

Scorched wheelchairs rest outside Cypress Meadows Post-Acute, a nursing home leveled by the Camp Fire, on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, in Paradise, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)