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Wildfires lost control in California on Friday, killing at least nine people in a mountain town and forcing residents to flee the Malibu seaside community in the face of a monster fire storm.
The nine victims were found in and around the city of Paradise in Northern California, where more than 6,700 homes and businesses were set on fire by the campfire, making it one of the most destroyers of the state's history, according to data protection of the California Department of Forests and Fires.
"This event was the worst case scenario – it's the event we've been dreading for a long time," said Butte County Sheriff, Kory Honea, at a conference of press held Friday night. "Unfortunately, not everyone understood."
The remains of five of the victims were found in or near burning cars, three outdoor residences and one inside a house, Honea said.
missing and three injured firefighters.
The flames so quickly break down on paradise that many people are forced to abandon their cars and save their lives by the only road to the mountain village.
Abandoned vehicles blackened by flames on a road
The camp fire, which was declared Thursday at the edge of the Plumas National Forest, northeast of Sacramento, has since blackened more than 90,000 acres and was only mastered at 5% at dusk. Friday
A total of 6,453 homes were destroyed in Paradise and elsewhere, said Honea, as well as 260 commercial buildings. The Tubbs Fire, which destroyed 5,636 buildings in Napa and Sonoma Counties in October 2017, is rated by Cal Fire as the most destructive of the state's history.
A FIRE TO MALIBU
In Malibu, some 800 km to the south, flames driven by the hot winds of Santa Ana blew up to 80 km / h (80 km / h) down the hills and through canyons to multi-million dollar dwellings.
Thousands of people have invaded the Pacific Coast Highway to head south or take refuge on the beaches, accompanied by their horses and other pets.
Among those forced to flee the Woolsey fire, which had charred some 14,000 hectares Lady Gaga and Kim Kardashian, who reported on Twitter that flames had damaged the house that she shares with Kanye West, in the nearby town of Calabasas.
"A fire is becoming uncontrollable and is heading towards the populated areas of Malibu," the city said in a statement. online. "All residents must evacuate immediately."
Some 95,000 residents were evacuated to Ventura County alone, the county fire department announced on Twitter on Friday.
Malibu and Calabasas, west of Los Angeles, are home to hundreds of celebrities and entertainment executives attracted by the view of the ocean, the hills and the large isolated estates
Authorities have issued mandatory and voluntary evacuation orders in the city of Los Angeles for the West Hills area on Friday night. We do not know how many houses were in the evacuation areas.
The fire, which spewed huge clouds of black smoke, also threatened part of the nearby town of Thousand Oaks, where an armed man killed 12 people earlier this week in a shooting. ransacking in a university bar, astonishing the bucolic community of southern California renowned for its safety.
The Woolsey fire broke out on Thursday and quickly crossed the 101 Freeway in several places. On Friday, he climbed the mountains of Santa Monica towards Malibu.
The authorities were forced to close 101, a major north-south thoroughfare, as well as the Pacific Coast Highway. Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said that a "significant number" of houses had been destroyed by the flames but that an accurate count could not yet be calculated.
Elsewhere, the fire of the hill in the Santa Rosa Valley in Ventura County had burned about 6,000 people. Cal Fire said Friday night that 2,828 hectares had been built.
In Los Angeles, another small fire at Griffith Park forced the Los Angeles Zoo to evacuate a number of show birds and small primates on Friday when the flames arrived. In a statement, zoo officials said in a statement.
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