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Roberto BlancarteEl peregrinaje
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Ricardo MonrealLo bueno, lo malo y lo
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Mueren Alonso y Moreno Valle; se presume falla de helicóptero
Puebla. El piloto, el copiloto y un asistente del senador también pierden la vida; Jesús Rodríguez Almeida queda a cargo del despacho en relevo de la gobernadora REDACCIÓN Y MILENIO PUEBLA, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, PAG. 16 A 18
REDACCIÓN, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
El Presidente mostró be-neplácito por la aprobación del paquete económico 2019 y rei-teró su invitación a los partidos
para que reduzcan a la mitad sus prerrogativas. También aseguró que analizará el tema de los des-pidos en el SAT para que no se co-metan injusticias. PAG. 6 Y 7
Es el primer Presupuesto sin moches y alcanzará para todo lo prometido: AMLO
Blunt. Mary Poppins la confirma como la actriz más completa
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La Afición. Los 15 deportistas del mundo más destacados en sus disciplinas
P. 40
El gobierno federal informó que la aeronave era rentada y volaba hacia Ciudad de México; PGR atrae la investigación y pide no especular. IMELDA MEDINA/REUTERS
MUEREN GOBERNADORA Y MORENO VALLE
Se desploma helicóptero en el que viajaban hacia la CDMX; el secretario Rodríguez Almeida fungirá como encargado de despacho; vocero de
Puebla exige que indagatoria la haga una instancia internacional
POR FERNANDO PÉREZ Y JUAN PABLO REYES
La gobernadora de Puebla, Martha Erika Alonso, y el se-nador Rafael Moreno Valle fa-llecieron ayer luego de que el helicóptero en el que viajaban se desplomara en un campo de cultivo de Santa María Coro-nango. Con ellos iban tres per-sonas más; todos murieron.
En mensaje a medios, el se-cretario de Seguridad Pública, Alfonso Durazo, dijo que el ac-cidente ocurrió a las 14:40 ho-ras, a tres millas náuticas del aeropuerto de Puebla. Tenían 10 minutos de haber despega-do del helipuerto Triángulo de las Ánimas y se dirigían al he-lipuerto Capital, de la alcaldía Miguel Hidalgo, en la CDMX.
“Se perdió comunicación con la tripulación; se escuchó un golpe”. El funcionario fede-ral explicó que el helicóptero, propiedad de la empresa Ser-vicios Aéreos del Altiplano, S.A. de C.V., se precipitó por una fa-lla, sin especificar la avería.
Javier Jiménez Espriú, se-cretario de Comunicaciones y Transportes, pidió no especular sobre las causas del accidente.
En dicha reunión, en la que también estuvo presente Olga Sánchez, secretaria de Gober-nación, se dijo que la goberna-dora y el Presidente tenían una fecha pactada para reunirse.
De acuerdo con la Constitu-ción del estado, ante la ausen-cia de la gobernadora, quien apenas el 14 de diciembre asu-mió el cargo, Jesús Rodríguez Almeida, secretario de Gobier-no, fungirá como encargado de despacho, en tanto el Congreso local nombra a un gobernador interino que deberá convocar a nuevas elecciones en un perio-do de tres a cinco meses.
Maximiliano Cortázar, vo-cero del estado de Puebla, so-licitó que sea una instancia internacional la que indague el accidente. La PGR abrió una carpeta de investigación.
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TWITTER Pésame
Tras la confirmación de la muerte de la gobernadora y el exgobernador de Puebla, el Presidente escribió un mensaje en redes.
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FALLA SIN ESPECIFICAR. La aeronave perdió comunicación con la torre de control y, posteriormente, se escuchó un golpe.
“REGALO DE NAVIDAD”. El presidente López Obrador agradeció a los legisladores la aprobación del Presupuesto.
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PIDEN INGRESO ORDENADO
RECURSOS INTOCABLES
POR ISABEL GONZÁLEZ
El gobierno de la República dará entrada de manera or-denada, pacífica y respetando sus leyes a todos los migrantes que hayan solicitado asilo en Estados Unidos, informó Olga Sánchez Cordero, secretaria de Gobernación.
De acuerdo con Sánchez
POR PAULO CANTILLO
El paquete económico 2019 establece que 82.4% del Pre-supuesto aprobado es into-cable y debe ser destinado a rubros que mandatan leyes y contratos.
Se trata de la proporción de gasto intocable más baja desde 2016, año en que la Secretaría de Hacienda ini-ció el cálculo de los gastos intocables.
De los 5.8 billones de pe-sos que se prevé ejercer, 4.8
Cordero, la decisión de Méxi-co privilegiará la protección y el respeto a los derechos hu-manos de los migrantes; al tiempo que estos deberán acatar las leyes mexicanas.
Destacó que lo que cambia en la actual administración fe-deral es que parará la represión y militarización en la frontera.
billones de pesos serán des-tinados a renglones como las transferencias a estados y municipios, con 35.5% del total ineludible; las pensio-nes y jubilaciones con 18.2% del total, el gasto regulariza-ble en sueldos y salarios con 17.1%, y el costo financiero de la deuda con 16.0% del total.
Con esto, el recurso que queda para reasignar dentro de los presupuestos de los siguientes años asciende a 1.2 billones de pesos.
Comprometidos 8 de cada 10 pesos del PEF
“RECORTE AL INE, IRRESPONSABLE”En entrevista, Lorenzo Córdova Vianello, presidente del Instituto Nacional Electoral, dijo que el recorte de 950 millones de pesos pone en riesgo la democracia.
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México acepta que EU regrese a migrantes
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AGILIZAN RESCATE EN INDONESIAEquipos militares y de rescate se desplegaron en un tramo de la costa para buscar sobrevivientes tras el tsunami que, hasta el cierre de esta edición, había dejado al menos 373 muertos.
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Tragedia en Puebla
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Martha Erika Alonso y Rafael Moreno Valle viajaban con rumbo a la Ciudad de México en un helicóptero particular.
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A 48-hour effort by the Trumpadministration to soothe jittery fi-nancial markets did little to re-verse the free fall in stocks onMonday, as the president’s re-newed attack on the Federal Re-serve and the specter of a pro-longed government shutdown fur-ther rattled investors alreadyworried about a global economicslowdown.
With a single tweet on Monday,President Trump undercut his topeconomic advisers’ efforts to re-assure the markets that he did notintend to fire Jerome H. Powell asFed chairman. But Mr. Trump,who blames the Fed’s recent inter-est rate increases for the marketgyrations, said “the only problemour economy has is the Fed,” anassertion that exacerbated theworst sell-off on Wall Street sincethe 2008 financial crisis.
Stocks continued marching to-ward their largest December de-clines since the 1930s, with theS&P 500 closing down 2.7 percenton Monday after a shortened trad-ing session ahead of the Christ-mas holiday.
The markets are trying to di-gest the confusing signals fromWashington. On Saturday, Treas-ury Secretary Steven Mnuchinposted what he said was a quotefrom Mr. Trump acknowledgingthat, while he did not agree withthe Fed’s recent interest rate in-creases, he did not have any plansto fire Mr. Powell. And Mick Mul-vaney, Mr. Trump’s incoming chiefof staff, said on ABC’s “This Week”that Mr. Trump now realized helacked authority to fire Mr. Powell,his handpicked chairman.
For the markets, the Fed is acomplicated player at the mo-ment. Investors have been disap-pointed by rising interest rates,concerned that they could sapgrowth. But the speculation aboutfiring Mr. Powell, a move thatcould turn the independent cen-tral bank into a political tool, hasundermined confidence in a piv-otal institution essential to eco-nomic policy.
Markets have already been onedge in recent weeks because ofuncertainty surrounding trade ne-gotiations between the UnitedStates and China, signs of slowingglobal growth, and the prospect ofa prolonged government shut-
White House Keeps JoltingMarkets on Fragile Footing
Trump Attacks Fedas Mnuchin Seeksto Halt Free Fall
By ALAN RAPPEPORT
Continued on Page A14
Sometime in the last couple ofmonths, predictions of a majoreconomic downturn or recessionin 2019 went from being a crankview to the conventional wisdom.
It is true that the global econ-omy is sputtering, and that thestock market is in its worst pull-back in a decade, with the Stand-ard & Poor’s 500 index downmore than 19 percent since Sept.20 as of Monday’s close. But thissense of gloom and pessimismhas gotten ahead of the facts onthe ground, especially concern-ing the United States economy.
The real risk is not that insur-mountable challenges knock theeconomy off course. It is thatpoor leadership converts moder-ate economic shocks into a crisis.
The combination of erraticbehavior from the president anda thinly staffed government inthe United States; the potentialcrises facing other major econo-mies; and the lack of trust amidallies and major trade partnerscould make routine economicchallenges turn into somethingworse.
Surveys show rising pes-simism among top corporateexecutives. And over the week-end Treasury Secretary SteveMnuchin called bank C.E.O.s toseek assurance that their institu-tions were sufficiently liquid tokeep lending to consumers andbusinesses, according to a Treas-ury announcement.
It was the kind of disclosurethat risked causing more damagethan it was intended to prevent.If a top health official announcedthat he had convened conversa-tions with top pharmaceuticalC.E.O.s and was pleased to learnthere were no drug shortages,your first response would not berelief but to ask, “Wait, we needto worry about drug shortages?”
Then there are the president’srepeated attacks on a FederalReserve led by his own appoint-ees. Just in the last three days,that has included reports thatPresident Trump has discussedthe legally dubious move oftrying to fire the Fed chairmanJerome Powell, efforts by admin-istration officials to play downthat possibility, and a renewedpresidential Twitter attack Mon-day morning.
How Modest ShocksCan Lead to Crisis
NEWS ANALYSIS
By NEIL IRWIN
Continued on Page A14
JEENAH MOON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The tree in Rockefeller Center was the center of a universe of tourists and other visitors getting into the spirit on Christmas Eve.Lights! Cameras! Christmas!
Parenthood in the United Stateshas become much more demand-ing than it used to be.
Over just a couple of genera-tions, parents have greatly in-creased the amount of time, atten-tion and money they put into rais-ing children. Mothers who workoutside the home spend just asmuch time tending their childrenas stay-at-home mothers did inthe 1970s.
The amount of money parentsspend on children, which used topeak when they were in highschool, is now highest when they
are under 6 and over 18.Renée Sentilles enrolled her
son, Isaac, in lessons beginningwhen he was an infant. Even nowthat he’s 12, she rarely has him outof sight when he is home.
“I read all the child-care books,”said Ms. Sentilles, a professor inCleveland Heights, Ohio. “I en-rolled him in piano at 5. I took himto soccer practices at 4. We triedtrack; we did all the swimming
lessons, martial arts. I did every-thing. Of course I did.”
While this kind of intensive par-enting — constantly teaching andmonitoring children — has beenthe norm for upper-middle-classparents since the 1990s, new re-search shows that people acrossclass divides now consider it thebest way to raise children, even ifthey don’t have the resources toenact it.
There are signs of a backlash,led by so-called free-range par-ents, but social scientists say therelentlessness of modern-day par-enting has a powerful motivation:
Stress, Exhaustion and Guilt: Modern ParentingBy CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
Continued on Page A13
A Relentless Focus onFuture Prosperity
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Alife on the run was not one any ofthese Nicaraguans ever intended.
But many people in this desper-ately poor Central American na-tion now live in a bleak new reality.They have exchanged their rou-tine lives as lawyers, engineeringmajors, radio broadcasters andmerchants for one of ever-chang-ing safe houses, encrypted mes-saging apps and pseudonyms.
Eight months after a sponta-neous popular uprising left 322people dead and 565 others in jail,Nicaraguans from cities acrossthe country have gone under-ground.
They are hiding from an in-creasingly authoritarian statethat is methodically trackingdown those who participated inthe large-scale and often violentprotests against the governmentof President Daniel Ortega and hiswife, Vice President Rosario Mu-rillo.
“They are hunting us like deer,”said Roberto Carlos MembreñoBriceño, 31, a former legal clerkfor a Nicaraguan Supreme Court
In Nicaragua,Protests LeadTo Life on Run
By FRANCES ROBLES
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KEMAL JUFRI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Tsunami damage in Indonesia. Volcanic activity could bring more big waves, officials said. Page A6.Reeling, Indonesia Faces New Tsunami Risk
REVENTADOR, Ecuador —The dam sits under the glare of anactive volcano, with columns ofash spewing toward the sky.
Officials had warned againstthe dam for decades. Geologistssaid an earthquake could wipe itaway.
Now, only two years after open-ing, thousands of cracks are splin-tering the dam’s machinery. Its
reservoir is clogged with silt, sandand trees. And the only time engi-neers tried to throttle up the facili-ty completely, it shook violentlyand shorted out the national elec-tricity grid.
This giant dam in the jungle, fi-nanced and built by China, wassupposed to christen Ecuador’svast ambitions, solve its energyneeds and help lift the small SouthAmerican country out of poverty.
Instead, it has become part of anational scandal engulfing thecountry in corruption, perilous
amounts of debt — and a futuretethered to China.
Nearly every top Ecuadoreanofficial involved in the dam’s con-struction is either imprisoned orsentenced on bribery charges.That includes a former vice presi-dent, a former electricity ministerand even the former anti-corrup-tion official monitoring theproject, who was caught on tapetalking about Chinese bribes.
Then there is the price tag:around $19 billion in Chinese
Continued on Page A10
The Costly Dam That Tethers Ecuador to ChinaBy NICHOLAS CASEY
and CLIFFORD KRAUSS
SWOON CONTINUES Wall Street added to losses that have 2018 shapingup as the worst year for stocks since the financial crisis. PAGE A14
One woman was late to work.Another was rushing to class. Aman who just moved to New Yorkhad trouble swiping his Metro-Card.
All of them broke the law: Theysneaked into the subway withoutpaying.
While there have always beenriders who try to avoid paying, thepractice has become so wide-spread in New York that it is cost-ing the Metropolitan Transporta-tion Authority about $215 millionin lost revenue this year, prompt-ing subway officials to announce acrackdown.
Fare evasion has nearly dou-bled — from 1.8 percent of riders in
recent years to 3.2 percent thisyear, contributing to the agency’sworsening finances, which couldlead to fare increases or servicecuts.
But it has not been clear exactlywhy fare evasion is up. New York-ers, it turns out, have many rea-
sons for not paying.“I don’t feel like going all the
way there to put money on mycard,” Aicha Makanera, 18, ofBrooklyn, said one recent morn-ing as she walked in through anopen emergency exit gate at the
About 208,000 people ride the subway each day without paying.CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Caught in Act,Evaders of Fare‘Don’t Feel Bad’By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS
and EDGAR SANDOVAL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,facing possible bribery charges, hopesto bolster support for his continuedleadership with a spring vote. PAGE A11
INTERNATIONAL A4-11
Israel Plans for Early Elections
In Lebanon, women in hijabs take selfieswith Christmas trees, and children of allsects give Secret Santa gifts. PAGE A4
Coexistence at Christmastime
Several states have tapped their treas-uries to keep national parks open andmaintained during the federal govern-ment shutdown. PAGE A12
NATIONAL A12-17
States Keep U.S. Parks OpenThe actress is almost unrecognizablewielding a submachine gun in “Destroy-er.” But she does force you to really lookat her, Manohla Dargis says. PAGE C1
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Nicole Kidman, Bad Cop
The Rev. Donald G. Timone was thesubject of two settlements over allega-tions he abused teenage boys. PAGE A18
NEW YORK A18-19
New York Priest Is Suspended
An officer chasing a robbery suspect ona crowded Bronx street fired 27 shots,wounding two bystanders. PAGE A18
Police Fusillade Is Questioned
Scandals and wrongdoing in techrightly get a lot of attention, but KevinRoose highlights the good — yes, really— happening elsewhere. PAGE B1
BUSINESS B1-4
The 2018 Good Tech Awards
The actor Kevin Spacey will be ar-raigned on a charge of indecent assaultand battery, a prosecutor said. PAGE A16
Spacey Faces Misconduct Case
In time for Christmas (and RickeyHenderson’s birthday), our 50-questiontrivia quiz will test ardent fans fromNew York to Oakland. PAGE B8
SPORTSTUESDAY B6-9
Think You Know Baseball?
It’s intermission at CERN’s Large Had-ron Collider in Switzerland, givingphysicists a chance to make sense ofthe discoveries made so far. PAGE D1
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A Pause for Particle Smashers
David Brooks PAGE A21
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WASHINGTON — An at-
tempt by Treasury Secre-
tary Steven T. Mnuchin to
calm plunging financial
markets backfired Monday,
further rattling investors
with new fears about
whether major U.S. banks
have enough cash on top of
worries about interest rates,
political instability in Wash-
ington and a slowing global
economy.
Mnuchin’s comments
preceded the worst Christ-
mas Eve performance on
record for the Standard &
Poor’s 500 index and the
Dow Jones industrial aver-
age, according to data com-
piled by Bloomberg and
FactSet.
The S&P 500 fell 2.7% in
shortened, preholiday trad-
ing Monday, digging itself
deeper into the red. Last
week, the index had its big-
gest weekly drop since the
2008 financial crisis, and it’s
down nearly 20% from its
September peak. The Dow
fell 653.17 points Monday, or
2.9%, to 21,792.20.
Adding to the volatile mix
was a fresh attack on the
Federal Reserve by Presi-
dent Trump, who declared
that the central bank was
the U.S. economy’s “only
problem” and that it didn’t
“have a feel for the market.”
“The Fed is like a power-
ful golfer who can’t score be-
cause he has no touch — he
can’t putt!” Trump said on
Twitter.
“It seems like the govern-
ment and [Trump’s] advis-
ors can’t get out of their own
way,” said Jack Ablin, chief
investment officer at Cres-
set Wealth Advisors in Chi-
cago. “Already there’s a fair
amount of uncertainty or
lack of confidence in their
ability to lead, and
Mnuchin’s move just re-
inforced that concern.”
As a partial federal gov-
ernment shutdown entered
its third day, two top Demo-
crats blamed Trump for
“plunging the country into
chaos.”
“The stock market is
tanking and the president is
waging a personal war on
the Federal Reserve — after
he just fired the Secretary of
Defense,” said a joint state-
ment from House Demo-
cratic leader Nancy Pelosi
and Senate Democratic
leader Charles E. Schumer.
One of the triggers for
last week’s sell-off was the
decision by Fed officials to
inch up the central bank’s
key interest rate Wednesday.
It was the fourth small hike
this year, bringing the short-
term federal funds rate —
EFFORT
TO HALT
MARKET
PLUNGE
FALTERSMnuchin’s attempts tocalm volatility createmore worries insteadas Trump again slamsFed. Dow falls 2.9%.
By Jim Puzzanghera
[SeeMarkets,A8]
PARADISE, Calif. — Rain was
falling as evacuees returned to
their beloved town in the Sierra
Nevada foothills. Traffic slowed as
drivers beheld the devastation.
Five weeks earlier, an inferno
swept through these wooded
neighborhoods, exacting a ter-
rible toll. Of the 86 people killed in
the Camp fire, most lived here. Of
the nearly 14,000 homes de-
stroyed, 12,000 were here. Ninety
percent of the town was lost, offi-
cials say.
Block after block, homes sit
crumbled atop foundations and
footings, ashy-white landmarks in
a landscape of charred trees and
soot-blackened soil.
CHARLES AND Kathy Tyler draw support from their friends as they recover lost belongings after the Camp fire in Paradise, Calif.Residents and business owners say they will return and start over — Paradise Strong — but are uncertain what their lives will look like.
Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times
Land of unanswered questionsParadise rebuildsbut finds it hardto see its future
By Thomas Curwen
[See Paradise,A10]
MEXICO CITY — Six years ago, Hec-
tor Sampson was taking his daily walk in
Mexico City’s Chapultepec park when he
heard a trace of classical music drifting
from the trees.
He followed the sound, down a dense
corridor of shrubs and bushes, until he
found himself in a verdant, sonic paradi-
se.
Lush foliage surrounded brightly col-
ored benches — blue, red, orange, yellow
— on which people peacefully reclined
while listening to music that played from
a ring of speakers.
Sampson had discovered one of the
city’s best-kept secrets: the Audiorama.
Far removed from the crowds and cha-
os that dominate the rest of Mexico’s ex-
pansive capital city, the Audiorama offers
a rare refuge for reflection.
For decades, people have been coming
to the free, city-run space to detach for a
moment from the rest of the world — to
meditate, pray, read, sit quietly with
lovers, even grieve. There’s just one rule,
spelled out on several small signs: “No
talking.”
Another small, hand-lettered sign
reads “Be happy.”
“It’s an oasis,” said Sampson, a writer
and radio personality whose esoteric in-
terests include quantum physics and re-
search into alien
GERALDINA ROME, 29, meditates in Mexico City’s Chapultepec parkinside the Audiorama, a tranquil garden amid the din of urban sprawl.
Marcus Yam Los Angeles Times
Where mum’s the wordMexico City’s lush and leafy oasis is a small sliceof heaven that follows only one rule: No talking
By Kate Linthicum
[SeeAudiorama,A4]
WASHINGTON — Ma-
rooned in the White House
on a gray Christmas Eve, un-
able to fly off to his beach re-
sort in Florida to play golf,
President Trump unleashed
a morose tweet Monday be-
moaning his fate in the
world’s most famous gilded
prison.
“I am all alone (poor me)
in the White House waiting
for the Democrats to come
back and make a deal on
desperately needed Border
Security,” he began.
It was the tweet that
launched a thousand
memes — including a rap-
idly unearthed cameo by
Trump in the 1992 film
“Home Alone 2,” in which
the real estate mogul briefly
encounters Macaulay Cul-
kin’s character, Kevin Mc-
Callister, at the Plaza Hotel
in New York City.
Other online responses
traded on Charles Dickens’
“A Christmas Carol,” espe-
cially when the uncaring mi-
ser Ebenezer Scrooge is
shown the error of his ways.
More than a few commenta-
tors suggested that if Trump
were feeling lonely, he could
visit U.S. troops in a war
zone, a trip he has yet to
make.
The president won’t be
alone on Christmas Day.
The first lady flew back to
Washington from Mar-a-
Lago, the Florida beach-
front resort where Trump
had planned to spend a 16-
day holiday.
In the meantime, in a
dozen tweets, he praised the
autocratic regime in Saudi
Arabia, lashed out at his out-
going Pentagon chief, said
he hoped to meet North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un
again, slammed the Federal
Reserve as “the only prob-
lem” in the U.S. economy
and blamed Democrats for
the partial government
shutdown that he last week
Amid shutdown,Trump is deridedfor ‘poor me’ tweet
As federal workers gowithout pay, presidentis scorned for self-pity,then goes on attack.
By Laura King
SOME SUGGESTEDthat if President Trumpwere lonely, he could visitU.S. troops in war zones.
Evan Vucci Associated Press
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CHICO, Calif. — Everywhere
Chris Persson goes, people are
still talking about the Camp fire.
While shopping for groceries,
the Chico resident was told the
store had hired fire survivors from
Paradise. At lunch, she overheard
a fire evacuee say she was given a
free tank of gas to run errands.
“You can’t go anywhere with-
out meeting somebody with a
story,” said Persson, who has lived
in Chico since 1988.
In the wake of the Camp fire,
which ignited more than a month
ago, residents of Chico say they
are settling into a “new normal” —
increased traffic, homes crowded
with multiple families, and a fleet SAPHIRA VERNON SWISHER, 6, a Camp fire survivor fromParadise, brushes her hair at a church shelter in Chico, Calif.
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
Chico strains to accommodate‘city within a city’
By Nicole Santa Cruz
[See Chico,A11]