For years, the hook holding up the power lines at transmission tower 27/222 in northern California had been wearing down bit by bit. On November 8th, 2018, the hook finally broke, and the resulting series of events led to the deadliest wildfire in California in a century.

Videos:

• Netflix: Fire in Paradise

• Frontline: Fire in Paradise

• Camp Fire: One Year Later

• The Deadliest Fire in California History

• Drone fire of Camp Fire devastation in Butte County

• Trump confused over fire-hit town Paradise: 'Pleasure, what a name'

Articles and books:

• Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy, by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguaino

• Trump refused to give California wildfire aid until told how many people there voted for him, ex-aide says

• Trump’s Misleading Claims About California’s Fire ‘Mismanagement’

• ABC10 Investigation: PG&E knew old power line parts had ‘severe wear’ months before deadly Camp Fire

• Trump blames forest management again on California fires visit

• The Camp Fire public report

• ‘Hell on Earth’: The First 12 Hours of California’s Deadliest Wildfire

For years, the hook holding up the power lines at transmission tower 27/222 in northern California had been wearing down bit by bit. On November 8th, 2018, the hook finally broke, and the resulting series of events led to the deadliest wildfire in California in a century.

Videos:

• Netflix: Fire in Paradise

• Frontline: Fire in Paradise

• Camp Fire: One Year Later

• The Deadliest Fire in California History

• Drone fire of Camp Fire devastation in Butte County

• Trump confused over fire-hit town Paradise: 'Pleasure, what a name'

Articles and books:

• Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy, by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguaino

• Trump refused to give California wildfire aid until told how many people there voted for him, ex-aide says

• Trump’s Misleading Claims About California’s Fire ‘Mismanagement’

• ABC10 Investigation: PG&E knew old power line parts had ‘severe wear’ months before deadly Camp Fire

• Trump blames forest management again on California fires visit

• The Camp Fire public report

• ‘Hell on Earth’: The First 12 Hours of California’s Deadliest Wildfire

Sometimes it feels as though Columbine was our first experience with school shootings. But it very much wasn't, as the town of West Paducah, Kentucky, can attest.

Videos:

• Very Bad Men: Michael Carneal

Articles and books:

• Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings, by Katherine S. Newman, Cybelle Fox, David J. Harding, Jal Metha, and Wendy Roth

• 1997 Kentucky school shooter denied parole

• COMMONWEALTH v. CARNEAL (2008)

• When Grief Wanted a Hero, Truth Didn't Get in the Way

• Carneal Recalls 1997 High School Shooting Rampage

• WHEN THE SILENCE FELL