Park Fire nears Paradise, California, town that was incinerated in 2018 in states deadliest fire [Video]

California’s Park Fire, now the sixth largest in state history, is now close enough to trigger evacuation warnings in Paradise, an idyllic town in the Sierra Nevada foothills that was almost entirely destroyed in the 2018 Camp Fire, the state’s deadliest on record.

“I don’t want anyone else to experience this. It’s the most traumatizing, terrifying, and saddening thing to have a whole community go up in flames, and to lose all your personal items … so to see my parents go through this is just really hard,” Ava Elsner, who lived through the Camp Fire, told CNN. “I want to stay strong for them and comfort them the way that they did for me. And it’s just, it’s just difficult.”

The Park Fire, which began on Wednesday, and is centered on …