This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 86 Nicole Kowalczyke of Chico heard from friends a wildfire was burning nearby, and at about 9 a.m. Thursday, she stepped outside to look at the smoke. With the Camp Fire raging only 10 miles away in the Feather River Canyon, the sky to the west was pitch-black with swirls of purple and ash falling from the sky. "It looked very ominous ... and then this piece of paper came from … [Read more...] about Strange thing fell from the sky when Chico resident went to look at smoke from Camp Fire