HISTORICAL FACTS: Camp fire | History Defined

California’s Paradise High lost its town to fire in 2018 and Lahainaluna endured the Lahaina fire in 2023; their football teams have now met in Hawaii for the first ‘Unity Bowl’

Two football teams separated by thousands of miles recently met on a Hawaiian field with a story that went far beyond the scoreboard. Both schools hail from communities ravaged by devastating wildfires and their initial meeting was intended to be a celebration of survival, rebuilding and the connections made from…

The Times of India · Sep 7

The Lost Bus review – Matthew McConaughey in a real-life horror story warped by Hollywood

3/5 This depiction of the 2018 Camp Fire disaster in Butte County, northern California, wants to be a realistic docu-drama, but it gives its star far too much fictional drama than is needed

The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2025

From Trauma to Tequila Nights: Matthew McConaughey, Jamie Lee Curtis and America Ferrera on The Lost Bus - INTERVIEW

Matthew McConaughey returns to the big screen after six years with The Lost Bus, a survival drama rooted in the 2018 Camp Fire, California's deadliest blaze. Alongside America Ferrera, he talked to The Latin Times about revisiting a story of courage and despair that became even more personal as all…

Latin Times · Sep 23, 2025

Rebuilding Paradise: Nonprofit's $500 'defensible space' grants help cut residents' insurance costs

Five years after the 2018 Camp Fire killed 85 people and destroyed 90% of the homes here, residents of Paradise, California, face a new struggle: Finding homeowner's insurance

The Independent UK · Jun 24, 2024

At least 55 people died on Maui after wildfires hit town with little warning

A dry summer and strong winds from a passing hurricane ignited the deadliest U.S. wildfire since the 2018 Camp Fire in California, which killed at least 85 people.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 11, 2023

The town at the center of California’s climate refugee crisis

When the Camp fire raged through the Sierra Nevada foothills, it turned an existing housing crisis into a growing emergency

The Guardian - US · May 22, 2022