Last day in Paradise: the untold story of how a fire swallowed a town

A bucolic community was reduced to ash by a new kind of wildfire - the deadliest in California's history. Survivors recall that horrible day

William Goggia awoke to a poisonous orange atmosphere so thick with smoke he couldn't see the sun.

It was 8am on Thursday 8 November. He heard the piercing metallic clang of propane tanks exploding in the distance. His sister, who lived nearby, called to ask him to help a relative in the area, but Goggia told her that he couldn't: chunks of burning wood were falling from the sky.