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PARADISE, California – Latest news on California wildfires (local time):
12:35
Authorities in northern California ordered residents to leave four small communities southeast of a city ravaged by a deadly fire.
The Butte County Sheriff's Office released an evacuation order on Saturday from the communities of Berry Creek, Bush Creek, Mountain House and Bloomer Hill.
More than 50,000 people were displaced by the fire that killed at least nine people and devastated the city of Paradise, where all 27,000 residents were ordered to evacuate.
Authorities say weather conditions help them gain ground, but are preparing for high winds that could spread fire in other communities.
National Meteorological Service meteorologist Alex Hoon said the area will see winds as high as 30 km / h (48 km / h) and ridges that can reach gusts of up to 80 km / h (80 km / h). / h) from Saturday evening
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11:40
A farm owner said she had stayed at home during evacuations for a forest fire raging in northern California in order to save her 14 horses and other animals.
Cathy Fallon says she was able to save all her horses and barn using a watering hose. But two of his dogs and nine cats died in the fire that decimated the city of Paradise.
Fallon says her house was burned down and her husband was hospitalized after fearing a heart attack. She says that he will be fine.
Fallon said that she and her son, Gabriel, were sleeping in a horse stall since the fire swept away Paradise on Thursday.
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11:40
A fire chief said the houses and other buildings in the city of Paradise were still burning and teams were working to extinguish them.
California Department of Forests and Fire Protection Scott McLean said on Saturday that a deadly forest fire was still burning in parts of Paradise and the nearby community of Magalia. The fire destroyed more than 6,400 homes and killed at least nine people.
He added that thick smoke prevented planes from dropping liquid extinguishers on Friday, but the smoke dissipated would allow crews to fight the flames before the wind came up on Saturday night.
McLean says more than 3,000 firefighters are progressing and more staff are on their way.
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10:30
A fire chief said two wildfires in southern California had caused considerable losses, but thousands of homes had been saved.
Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said Saturday that firefighters had told him that they were working in the toughest and most extreme conditions that they experienced in their lives on Friday night. .
He says conditions are much better on Saturday, with a lull in the winds that should return Sunday.
Osby did not specify the number of houses burned. The authorities said that 150 houses had burned and that their number would increase.
The fire chief has urged thousands of people to order the evacuation in order to stay away from Malibu and other communities outside of Los Angeles.
The authorities claim that two people were found dead in the fire zone.
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10:15
Actor Martin Sheen said that the fire that ravaged the coastal community of Malibu in southern California was the worst he had ever seen.
The actor "West Wing" was interviewed Friday by an affiliate of Los Angeles Fox, KTTV, on the beach after being evacuated from his neighboring home. He says he hopes that his house will have been destroyed and that he has never seen a fire burn with such intensity.
The TV channel found Sheen after her son, Charlie Sheen, tweeted Friday night that he could not contact his parents. Martin Sheen urged his family to let him know that his wife, Janet, and he were safe and planned to sleep in their car at the beach.
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10:15
Authorities say the firefighters are tired but are doing everything they can to forestall a deadly fire in northern California before the wind rises.
The head of the operations section of the California Department of Forests and Fire Protection, Josh Bischof, told the firefighting teams that they had done a good job Friday, but that "we must put an end to it …
The northern blaze that began Thursday cremated most of Paradise, a city of 27,000, with flames moving so quickly that firefighters could do nothing.
Captain Scott McLean, of Cal Fire, said the crews had stopped attacking the flames instead of helping people get out alive.
More than 3,000 firefighters fight the fire that killed at least nine people.
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9:50
The head of the Los Angeles County Sheriff, John Benedict, said that two people had been found dead in the fire zone of a fire in southern California.
These deaths are the first of a pair of wildfires that have devastated 109 square miles and destroyed more than 150 homes since Thursday in the north and west of downtown Los Angeles.
Benedict gave no details about the dead. He said Saturday's Sheriff's detectives were investigating.
Eleven people have now been killed by forest fires in California. Nine were found dead in fires in northern California.
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9:15
The size of a forest fire in southern California has more than doubled and firefighters are looking for neighborhoods destroyed by fire, looking for further destruction following a fire that has already destroyed 150 houses.
Officials took advantage of the calm Saturday morning to badess the damage and get a new map of a fire that has now burned 109 square kilometers (282 square kilometers) in the hills and canyons to the north and west. from downtown Los Angeles.
Research in cities such as Thousand Oaks and Malibu will certainly do more damage and the number of houses burned should increase.
A haze of smoke still hangs in the blue skies of the region on Saturday, with the vicious winds that pushed the flames in their first two days and should stay away until Sunday.
Firefighters strive to take advantage of the best conditions to begin to control the fire.
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8:45
According to officials, the milder weather allows them to gain ground against a deadly fire that has razed a city in northern California, but they are preparing for high winds that could threaten another community.
The California Department of Forests and Fire Protection has announced that strong winds are expected to return Saturday night and propel the fire south over Lake Oroville, threatening Oroville, a city of 19,000 inhabitants.
National Meteorological Meteorologist Alex Hoon said the area would be subject to sustained winds of up to 30 km / h (48 km / h) and gusts of up to 80 km / h (50 mph).
The fire that began Thursday outside the mountainous city of Paradise has reached 156 square kilometers (404 square kilometers). Officials say the city has been completely destroyed.
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7:45
Officials said that a deadly fire that razed a city in northern California has spread overnight, but the crews have also taken control of the flames.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said on Saturday that the forest fires had expanded to 40 square kilometers (156 square miles), but were under control at 20 percent.
According to Cal Fire, the fire that started on Thursday in the hills near the city of Paradise destroyed 6,453 homes and 260 businesses. 15,000 additional structures are under threat. At least nine people died.
According to officials, more than 3,000 firefighters are battling with fire, the most destructive forest fire in California since the start of record keeping.
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1:30
President Donald Trump threatens to suspend federal payments to California, saying the management of his forest is "so bad."
Trump said Saturday on Twitter that there was no reason for these mbadive, deadly and expensive fires in California. Remedy now, or more payments from the Fed!
It was Trump's first time to talk about mbadive fires, including a fire that cremated most of the city of Paradise, Northern California, and killed at least nine people.
Fires have also raged in southern California, including the town of Thousand Oaks, where an armed man killed a dozen people in a bar in the neighborhood.
Trump had previously issued an emergency statement providing federal funds to help firefighters.
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