State Officials released the opinion yesterday that the Clean up activity from the Butte County wild fire disaster that wiped out 14,000 homes and killed 86, will cost 3 billion dollars to clean up the debris. California office of emergency services said they learned a lot on the clean up process in 2017 which cost 1.3 billion. They also said the complaints resulting from paying contractors by the ton caused unneeded removal of drive ways and other lawn materials that were not destroyed has changed the process of paying contractors and also will provide more oversight of the cleanup.