Death toll in California wildfires rises to at least 25 as blazes continue to rage
READ MORE The air thick with smoke from a ferocious wildfire that was still burning homes Saturday, residents in the Northern California town of Paradise found their cars incinerated and their homes reduced to rubble. People surveyed the damage and struggled to cope with what they had lost. Entire neighbourhoods were levelled by a blaze that threatened to explode again with the same fury that largely incinerated the foothill town. The death toll in the wildfire that tore through the Northern California community has risen to 23, the local sheriff said Saturday evening, bringing the total number across the state to at least 25. The Butte County Sheriff said investigators discovered 14 bodies Saturday, three days after the fire broke out. He said some of the victims were found in cars and in houses. The flames burned down more than 6,700 buildings, almost all of them homes, making the blaze that destroyed Paradise one of California’s most destructive w...
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