Matthew McConaughey stars as a school bus driver in ‘The Lost Bus,’ which premiered earlier this month at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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By Dwight Brown

Contributing Writer

It started with a spark, and no one knew how it would end. That’s how the deadliest fire in California history went down on Nov. 18, 2018, in Butte County.

A town named Paradise was destroyed, burned to the ground and 85 people died. This based-on-fact story got pulled out of the ashes.

They say a faulty Pacific Gas & Electric tower ignited the first flames. Bone-dry terrain and strong winds led to fire, smoke and an inferno that threatened a Northern California community. Word was slow to get around that flames were marching across the hills and could pin locals in if they didn’t evacuate

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