Cooling, Cleansing Rains May Only Add to Misery

Brenda Wilson and her dog, Scooby, waited to be picked up at the makeshift camp for evacuees beside a Walmart in Chico, Calif., Nov. 21, 2018. The area’s first major rainstorm in many months is helping extinguish what was left of the Camp wildfire, but also making conditions more hazardous for firefighters and worsening conditions for the refugees living in tents here. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)