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At least 63 people lost their lives in a fire in northern California and the authorities indicated that they had a list of 631 missing persons in the most serious forest fire of the country during the last century. ] Among the large list could be the names of people who fled the flames and do not know they were reported missing, said Butte County Police Chief Kory Honea. The list will be made public so that the people concerned can check their presence and inform the authorities that they have survived.
"The chaos we faced was extraordinary," Honea said of the hours following the tragic fire in the area. "We are now trying to go back and count everyone."
in California AP Some 52,000 people are relocated to shelters, family and friend homes, in motels and even in a Walmart car park and in an adjacent field in Chico, about ten kilometers from the ashes.
In the vast shelter on the parking lot, the evacuees are wondering if their houses will stay upright, if their neighbors have survived and where they will go when this place closes in a few days.
"It's cold and scary," said Lilly Batres, 13, one of the few s minor place. Batres escaped with his family from the city of Magalia and does not know if his house has withstood the pbading of the flames. "I think people will enter our store," he added.
Investigators removed the bodies of homes and cars burned in the northern California fire, but in many cases the victims reduced to ashes and bone fragments The latest official report speaks 63 dead and 9,800 homes destroyed.
At the other end of the state, more people were able to return to the place where a fire devastated an area equivalent to that of Denver to the west of Los Angeles The fire was controlled to 62% after the destruction of nearly 550 homes and other buildings, at least three people died as a result of the fire.
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