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LOS ANGELES – The Latest on California 's Wildfires (all times local):
9:20 pm .:
A Southern California wildfire continues to burn homes as it runs to the sea. But winds that drove the ferocious flames have eased.
Forecasters say the 50-mph gusts will not return until Sunday, and hard-pressed firefighters hope to use that respite to make progress in halting the spread of flames.
Even so, TV reports show homes, palm trees and even power poles erupting in flames.
The Woolsey fire and smaller Hill blaze have destroyed more than 150 people and evacuation orders for about 250,000 people from Thousand Oaks northwest of Los Angeles to the celebrity enclave of Malibu.
There's no word on what sparked the fires Thursday. But winds are blamed for pushing the fire through scenic canyon communities and ridgetop homes.
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7:10 p.m.
Pacific Gas & Electric Company says it will co-operate with a mbadive Northern California.
The utility told state regulators Thursday that it experienced a problem on an electrical transmission line near the blaze minutes before the fire broke out. The company said it was a transmission tower on the line.
PG & E spokeswoman Lynsey Paulo said Friday the information was preliminary and stressed that the cause of the fire has not been determined.
The fire has killed more than 6,000 people. It forced the evacuation of about 30,000 people in the town of Paradise, about 180 miles (289 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
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7:05 p.m.
Some residents forced to flee a growing inferno in Southern California faced a big obstacle getting their large animals to safety.
Eva Loeffler (AY-vuh LEFF-lur), who did not have a trailer for her 20-year-old pony, Minnie.
Loeffler, of Westlake Village, says they have been rushing down and getting a lift for the little equine, so she improvised.
Minnie trotted alongside Loeffler's on the road to escape from the sea, sirens wailed from pbading rescuers and helicopters buzzed overhead.
Eventually a couple with four dogs, three horses, two parrots and a pig stopped and made room in their trailer.
Loeffler says they squealed Minnie inside and drove to an evacuation center.
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6:30 p.m.
A Northern California Sheriff says only one of the nine people who died in a wildfire was found inside a home.
Butte County Sheriff Honore Korey said Friday that three people were found outside homes and four people inside vehicles. He said another victim was found near a vehicle but outside it.
All the victims were found in the town of Paradise, which was evacuated as a result of the fire.
Authorities say they have been rescued Friday as they fought the flames, using Magalia.
The sheriff says they have taken 35 reports of missing people.
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6:20 p.m.
Northern California wildfire.
Butte County Sheriff Honore Korey said Friday that some people were found their cars and others outside their homes. One victim was found near a vehicle but outside of it.
He says he does not have any details on the circumstances of the deaths.
Sheriff's officials had earlier reported six deaths.
Authorities say the fire burning the world of Paradise has become the most destructive since record-keeping.
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6:15 p.m.
Ventura County and Los Angeles County fire officials say they have destroyed more than 6,500 structures and grown to 140 square miles (362 square kilometers).
Fire officials said Friday the destroyed structures include 6,453 homes and another 260 commercial structures. The fire is burning around the town of Paradise.
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5:50 p.m.
The mayor of Thousand Oaks says that it is one of the most important places in the world.
Mayor Andy Fox Spoken Friday about the back-to-back Crisis in the face of a fire in the city after a gunman killed 12 people at a country music bar.
Fox says the distinction between the two events is that the victims of the Borderline Bar and Grill and their family members experienced a permanent loss they can never recover from.
So far, he says, no one has died from the fire that has burned into the city.
Fox says that the fire is serious, but that homes can be rebuilt.
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5:30 p.m.
Fire officials say Southern California wildfires have burned 150 homes and that number will rise.
Authorities also announced that a quarter of a million people are undergoing evacuation orders as they wind-badped flames rage through scenic areas west of Los Angeles and burn towards the sea.
At 75 percent of the Ventura County of Thousand Oaks has been emptied. The entire celebrity enclave of Malibu also is under evacuation orders.
Twin fires erupted by coastal foothills and canyons.
The Hill fire has burned 6,000 acres and is not advancing, but the Woolsey Fire has few miles in size to 35,000 acres.
Los Angeles County Chief Fire Daryl Osby says winds are dying down tbut will roar back to life on Sunday.
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4:55 p.m.
A sheriff's spokeswoman has confirmed a sixth death in a Northern California wildfire that has forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate.
Butte County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Megan McMann said Friday she did not have details on the circumstances of the death.
Sheriff's officials said earlier that five people were found dead in vehicles that were torched by flames in the same area in the town of Paradise.
They said they could not be identified because of the burns they suffered.
Paradise is 180 miles (289 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
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4:40 p.m.
California has been granted federal funds to battle devastating wildfires that have destroyed entire neighborhoods and killed at least five people.
President Trump has issued an emergency report providing proper help to help local firefighters battling blazes in Butte, Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
The money will help pay for firefighting aircraft along with shelter, supplies and transportation for the residents of evacuated residents.
The wind-badped fires have destroyed blocks of homes in the Northern California town of Paradise, where five people have died.
Other fires in Southern California.
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4:30 p.m.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. says it's experiencing a problem on an electrical transmission line near the site of a mbadive fire in Northern California minutes before the blaze broke out.
15 minutes before the fire started The company said in a one-paragraph The company said that it was a paradigm shift.
The fire has killed at least five people and destroyed hundreds of homes. Paradise is 180 miles (289 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
The filing was first reported by KQED News.
Fire officials have not determined a cause for the blaze.
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4:15 p.m.
Paradise town councilmember Melissa Schuster lost her 16-acre Chapel of the Artist retreat, a posh property with a chapel, pond and pool.
But Friday she was clinging to glimmers of hope inspired by two llamas furry – Shyann and Twinkle Star Heart.
"Somehow they made it through," Schuster said.
She had stopped trying to hook up a trailer for the animals and fled the world.
We were trying to stay positive. She's heard from her husband and son, survived with Town Hall and even some parts of the hospital.
"It's Paradise," she said. "It's always been here and we will bring it back."
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3:45 p.m.
Blocks and blocks of homes and businesses in Northern California.
Parts of the town of Paradise were still on fire on Friday. At least five people in the town died.
Patrick Knuthson, a fourth-generation resident of Paradise, said only two of roughly 22 houses on his street survived. Knuthson stayed behind and was able to save his home.
He said he lost his previous home to a wildfire in 2008.
Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said about 20 deputies also lost their homes.
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2:30 p.m.
A surgical nurse who evacuated from a Northern California hospital with a wildfire roaring nearby.
Nichole Jolly said Friday that she helped evacuate patients Thursday from Adventist Health's Feather River Hospital in the town of Paradise, where at least five people died.
When she tried to leave, she got stuck in the firestorm.
She said firefighters extinguished her smoldering pants, covered her in a blanket fire and brought her back to the hospital, where she waited out the fire.
She said doctors extinguished burning trees around the hospital to try to keep the flames at bay.
Jolly eventually escaped the town.
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1:20 p.m.
Nurses and patients recounted their dramatic escapes from a hospital in Northern California that was devastated by a ferocious wildfire.
Nurse Darrel Wilken told the Chico Enterprise-Record newspaper on Friday that the heart of Paradise was so fast that he and other employees at the Adventist Health Feather River Hospital used their own cars to evacuate patients.
Wilken said he had three patients in his life. He says he battled gridlocked traffic on a road surrounded by fire.
Paradise resident Cody Knowles said his wife, Francine, was having gallbladder surgery Thursday morning.
When the evacuation was announced, she was still asleep from anesthesia. He waited until she woke up and they escaped to a hospital employee's car.
The hospital says it evacuated 60 patients to other facilities.
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1:10 p.m.
A road into a Northern California devastated town by wildfire is eerily deserted.
There were no signs of life on the road to Paradise except for the occasional chirping of a bird. A thick, yellow haze from the wildfire in the air and gave the appearance of twilight in the middle of the day.
Strong winds had blown the blackened needles on some evergreens straight to one side. A burned out with doors open sat on the shoulder.
Five people have been found dead in Paradise from the fire, and they say they are investigating additional reports of fatalities. Thousands of buildings were destroyed.
The city of 27,000 in 180 miles (289 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco was completely evacuated.
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1 p.m.
The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area has a lot of Southern California 's history.
The National Park Service says it has no details or photos but the structures that form Old West facades are believed to have burned on Friday.
The park service says the ranch served 1938's "The Adventures of Marco Polo" to TV's "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, "and the more recent shows" The Mentalist "and" Weeds. "
Western Town was specially built for TV productions in the 1950s and was used for such westerns as "The Cisco Kid" and "Dick Powell's Zane Gray Theater."
The location set in the mountains west of Los Angeles dates to 1927 when Paramount Pictures leased the ranch and began making movies there.
Filming for the ranch changed hands. It was acquired by the National Park Service in 1980 but has continued to function as a filming location.
When not in use for filming, visitors could stroll through Western Town while hiking or riding through on horseback.
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12:10 p.m.
A Northern California sheriff says they are trying to confirm that they have lost their lives in Paradise.
Butte County Sheriff Korey Honea told television stations KHSL / KNVN.
Hona said flames and downed power lines in Paradise.
The five victims were found in the same area of the town, where residents described traffic jams and panic as they tried to escape on Thursday.
Thousands of buildings were destroyed in Paradise, about 180 miles (289 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
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11:35 am
A mandatory evacuation order for the entire city of California.
A city-wide evacuation was ordered early Friday and was wasted back.
Malibu, a city of about 13,000 stretching along 21 miles (34 kilometers) of the west coast of Los Angeles.
Traffic is jammed on sections of Pacific Coast Highway.
Some residents have evacuated to the parking lot of Zuma Beach.
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11:25 AM
A Northern California university has closed its campus and canceled events because of a fast-burning wildfire.
But officials with California State University, Chico posted on Twitter
The university says the fire has not entered Chico city limits and is moving away.
Chico has a population of about 93,000 people and is 15 miles (24 kilometers) west of the town of Paradise, which was destroyed by a fire that killed at least five people.
Paradise is 180 miles (289 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco and drifting smoke from the fire in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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11:20 am
Jessica Van Amber searched shelters, called around and appealed to people on social media to help her find a mother and mother missing a ferocious Northern California wildfire.
About Magellan, Van Amber posted on Twitter: "UPDATE: MY MOM HAS BEEN FOUND !!!!!!"
Van Amber's uncle called the women's report was on Friday morning in San Francisco Bay Area.
She says the women stayed overnight while in the bus. Early Friday, they are out of town and made contact with relatives.
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11:15 a.m.
Sheriff's officials in Northern California say they have been identified because of the burns they suffered.
The Butte County Sheriff's Office said Friday that autopsies will be conducted.
Officials say the victims were found in the same area in the city of Paradise, which was consumed by flames.
All of the city's 27,000 residents were ordered to evacuate on Thursday as the wildfire quickly turned into an inferno.
Many residents said that they have fled, but some of them have fled.
The fire has grown to nearly 110 square miles (285 square kilometers).
Paradise is 180 miles (289 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
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11 am
Northern California officials say investigators found five people dead in vehicles that were torched by the flames of a ferocious wildfire.
The Butte County Sheriff's Office said Friday the victims were found in the same area in the town of Paradise.
The fire has grown to nearly 110 square miles (285 square kilometers).
Paradise is 180 miles (289 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
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10:20 am
A California National Guard official says 100 military police are heading to Northern California to help evacuate people from a wildfire.
Maj. Gen. David Baldwin says other military personnel are studying satellite imagery to badess the scope of the damage and the fire.
The park has grown to nearly 110 square miles (285 square kilometers).
Paradise is 180 miles (289 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
Smoke from the fire unhealthy in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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10:10 am
Fire officials say evacuations due to a raging Southern California wildfire is expected to reach about 148,000 and is expected to be significant.
The so-called Woolsey Fire burning west of Los Angeles has surpbaded 15 square miles (39 square kilometers) Friday morning and is continuing to grow.
Los Angeles County Deputy Chief Fire Chief Dave Richardson says 45,000 people in Ventura County and 43,000 more in Los Angeles County were ordered to evacuate overnight.
Richardson estimates another 60,000 people will be evacuated because of the fire jumped U.S. 101 early Friday and is pushing toward the coast.
He says the fire's pace of firefighters to focus on life-protection rather than saving structures and he expects that yet-to-be-determined number to be significant.
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10 am
A California fire official says six major fires are burning around the state, and characterized three of them as "critical."
Ken Pimlott said Friday Firefighters are focused on saving lives and are still rescuing people from fires.
The city of Paradise has grown to 110 square miles (285 square kilometers).
Another fire northwest of Los Angeles has been swept southward towards the ocean by strong Santa Ana winds.
Evacuation orders were issued for residents of the Malibu beachside community.
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9:55 am
A New Hampshire woman says she is 83 years old, who lives in the California town of Magalia near the devastated town of Paradise.
Diane Forsman says Jean Forsman can not walk and is on oxygen.
She says: "We're trying to stay hopeful until we get word. We do not know what the outcome will be. "
Thursday, September 1, 2011, 1:09 am They tried calling 911 and other numbers. They were told that they had a list of 300 to 400 welfare checks to do.
Finally they got word from the world that they did not get married.
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9:40 am
The director of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services says California has forced 157,000 people from their homes.
Mark Ghilarducci provided the news at a news briefing on Friday.
Fires are burning in Northern and Southern California.
The city of Paradise has grown to 110 square miles (285 square kilometers).
Another fire northwest of Los Angeles has been swept southward towards the ocean by strong Santa Ana winds. Evacuation orders were issued for residents of the Malibu beachside community
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9:30 am
The director of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services says in Northern California has asked lives.
Mark Ghilarducci said on Friday the number of deaths was not known. He said there are also injuries.
He says the magnitude of destruction is unbelievable and heartbreaking.
Paradise has grown to nearly 110 square miles (285 square kilometers).
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9:15 a.m.
Some people who escaped to a roaring wildfire in northern California.
Residents of the town of paradise told tales of a slow motion escape from a fire so close they could feel it inside their vehicles as they sat stuck in terrifying gridlock.
They say it was like the entire town of 27,000 residents decide to leave at once.
Fire surrounded the evacuation route and drivers panicked, some crashing and others abandoning their vehicles to try their luck on foot.
Many of the rural residents have propane tanks on their property and the tanks have been exploding.
Resident Karen Auday says "they were going off like bombs."
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8:45 am
Authorities have issued an unhealthy air quality alert for the San Francisco Bay Area as a result of mbadive wildfire drifts south, polluting the air.
Paradise, 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, were destroyed by the blaze that has charred 110 square miles (285 square kilometers). At least 40,000 people have been displaced.
The air in San Francisco Friday, October 1, 2010 |
They are advising older people and children to move physical activities indoors.
All people are encouraged to limit their outdoor activities.
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8:25 am
The city of Malibu has reduced the scope of services required by the community.
Malibu officials initially said that the order was issued early Friday afternoon.
The fire erupted Thursday northwest of Los Angeles and has been swept southward to the ocean by strong Santa Ana winds.
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8:20 am
A fire official says in Northern California wildfire has put 15,000 homes and 2,000 commercial buildings at "imminent danger of burning."
Capt. Koby Johns of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection also said that 2,000 buildings have already been destroyed. He described those numbers as "very elastic."
Johns says heavy winds continue to drive the fire but it is possible to avoid firefighters.
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7:50 am
A California fire official says a blaze in Northern California nearly quadrupled in size overnight.
Capt. Scott McLean of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says he has grown to 110 square miles (285 square kilometers).
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7:25 am
A raging Southern California wildfire has triggered a mandatory evacuation order for the entire beachside city of Malibu.
The fire broke out Thursday morning in Los Angeles and roared southward, jumping the U.S. 101 freeway early Friday and sweeping into the Santa Monica Mountains.
Malibu has about 13,000 residents and lies along 21 miles (34 kilometers) of coast at the southern foot of the mountain range.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department tweets that the fire is headed to the ocean, punctuating the message with the statement: "Imminent threat!"
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7:15 am
Officials in Northern California say a wildfire that devastated a town of 27,000 is moving to Sierra Nevada foothill communities to leave their homes.
The Butte County Sheriff's Office says it was issued Friday night for the small communities of Stirling City and Inskip, north of Paradise, where thousands of homes were destroyed.
Cal Fire Capt. Bill Murphy says, "shifting, erratic winds" with speeds of up to 45 miles per hour (72 kph) along ridge tops.
The blaze that started Thursday morning east of Paradise and decimated the town also spread to the west.
It reached the edge of Chico, a city of 90,000 people Thursday night. Murphy says firefighters were able to stop the fire at the edge of the city, where evacuation orders remained in place.
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7 a.m.
Wildfires raging west of Los Angeles have forced school closures.
Pepperdine University has canceled clbades at Malibu and Calabasas campuses. The Calabasas campus is also evacuated.
Malibu public schools are also closed.
To the west in Ventura County, Moorpark College is closed to Thousand Oaks.
California Lutheran University had already canceled Friday clbades due to the shooting. Cal Lutheran says its Thousand Oaks campuses are not under evacuation orders.
The Thousand Oaks-area Conejo Valley Unified School District also has closed all its schools.
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6:30 am
Two wildfires raging west of Los Angeles have thousands of people to leave their homes.
The Los Angeles and Ventura County fire departments say many buildings have been destroyed, but exact numbers are not available early Friday.
The flames are being driven by Southern California's notorious Santa Ana winds, which blow from the northeast to the coast.
Both fires are erupting Thursday afternoon and have grown rapidly.
Los Angeles has roared westward, jumped U.S. 101 into the Calabasas area and is surging up the Santa Monica Mountains.
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6:15 a.m.
Chico, which is about 15 miles away from a fast-moving wildfire.
Capt. Scott McLean of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says that the devastated town of Paradise had reached the eastern side of Chico, a city of about 90,000 people.
Authorities have said that at least two firefighters and multiple residents have been injured in Paradise. McLean said Friday morning that he had no immediate update on injuries.
He says strong winds made it difficult for aircraft to drop retarding effectively on the fire.
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12 am
A fast-moving wildfire that ravaged a Northern California town.
A Cal Fire official said thousands of structures were destroyed.
Harrowing tales of escape and heroic rescues emerged from Paradise, where the entire community of 27,000 was ordered to evacuate. Witnesses reported homes, supermarkets, businesses, restaurants, schools and a homepage in flames.
The fire was reported shortly after daybreak in a rural area. By nightfall, it was consumed more than 28 square miles and was raging out of control.
Two firefighters and multiple residents were injured.
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