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PARADISE, California – Latest news on California wildfires (local time):
17:30.
Southern California Edison reported to utility regulators that there was a breakdown on one of its electrical circuits near the starting point of a major destructive forest fire while winds violent swept the area.
SoCal Edison stated that the report to the Public Utilities Commission was submitted with great caution, although fire officials did not indicate that his equipment could have been involved in the start of the fire.
The utility report indicates that the so-called Woolsey fire was reported around 2:24 pm. Thursday, two minutes after the failure of a circuit of a substation.
Similarly, Pacific Gas & Electric informed regulators that there was a problem on an electric transmission line a few minutes before a fire caused by the wind erupted Thursday in the north of California and destroyed the city of Paradise.
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5:05 p.m.
Fire officials believe that no other structure has burned in the huge wildfire in the west of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said Sunday night that he was hoping to have a better damage badessment on Monday and that he expects the number of structures lost to be greater than 177.
The return of gusty winds to Santa Ana on Sunday caused a surge, but Osby said the shooting of 130 square miles (337 square kilometers) remained within its perimeter.
Mandatory evacuation orders remain in effect in the Los Angeles County fire zones, while neighboring Ventura County plans to lift some evacuations Sunday night.
Authorities also said that two people found dead in a car before were adults. Investigators believe that the driver may have become disoriented and that the vehicle was destroyed by fire.
Some 3,500 students continue to be accommodated at Pepperdine University on the Malibu coast. The university canceled clbades at the Malibu and Calabasas campuses north after Thanksgiving.
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17h
Robin Thicke's house in Malibu was destroyed, while Caitlyn Jenner's house was spared by a forest fire in southern California.
A Thicke representative said on Sunday that Thicke's house had burned down.
The 41-year-old singer said on Instagram that he, his girlfriend and two children were safe.
Jenner posted a video on Instagram late Sunday, saying their home was built, but describing the scene in Malibu as "devastating".
They are among the many celebrities who had to evacuate a forest fire that destroyed at least 177 homes and two deaths since its explosion Thursday.
Actor Gerard Butler said Sunday that his home was "half-party" while the star of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills", Camiller Grammer Meyer, has completely lost his home.
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4:40 p.m.
California Governor Jerry Brown said the time has come for Californians to recover from catastrophic fires on both sides of the state.
The Democratic governor, a climate change evangelist, stressed at a press conference Sunday that forest fires have become more ferocious because of drought and climate change.
According to Brown, this "new anomaly" will only worsen over the next 10 to 20 years, threatening California's way of life.
Governor Donald Trump asked the governor if a tweet had been attributed to poor forest management. Brown says that forest management is only one element in the fight against forest fires.
He also noted that the federal government had "more land than the state government".
The governor said he would be willing to bring soldiers from the Border National Guard to help them cope with the fires, if any.
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2:40 p.m.
A businesswoman from northern California welcomed a 93-year-old World War II veteran who does not know if her home in Paradise is still standing after a deadly fire.
Tracy Grant met Lee Brundige while distributing hamburgers to the evacuees at the Forebay Aquatic Center in Oroville, about 30 kilometers south of Paradise.
She says she convinced a Brundige who was reluctant to follow her house after the sheriff's deputies asked her to get out of the parking lot because of the smoke and the degradation of the air quality.
Grant's boyfriend, Josh Fox, brought home new bags of clothing for Brundige. Her little dog Axle keeps Brundige company in the reclining chair that they share.
Brundige lived alone. His son in Southern California knows that his father is fine.
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2:20 p.m.
One of the victims of the fire in northern California is a sick woman whose body was found in bed in a burned house in Concow near Paradise.
Ellen Walker, who was in her 70s, was home alone when the fire broke out Thursday, according to Nancy Breeding, a family friend.
Breeding, Walker's husband was at work and called a neighbor to ask him to evacuate his wife, but she was taking medication and may not be alert. He badumed that she had escaped hell and was trying to find her in rescue centers until authorities confirmed her death on Friday night.
"Yesterday a firefighter took her home to confirm she was apparently dead in bed," Breeding said.
"It's a devastating thing, and it happens to so many people," she added.
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2:05 p.m.
Actors Gerard Butler and Camille Grammer Meyer of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" are celebrities whose homes were damaged or destroyed in a forest fire in Southern California.
Butler said on Instagram that his home in Malibu was "half off" and shared a photo of himself standing in front of a burned section of the house and a severely burned vehicle.
Meyer's journalist Howard Bragman confirms that his home in Malibu was destroyed Saturday night. He says that she is grateful to have safely evacuated with her family, appreciates the firefighters who risked their lives to fight the fire and her gratitude for the love and the love. Concern about it.
Alyssa Milano, Lady Gaga, Martin Sheen and Kim Kardashian West are among those who have been evacuated from the forest fire that has destroyed at least 177 homes and killed two people since it broke out on Thursday.
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14h
Lisa Jordan was driving from Seattle in search of her uncle, Nick Clark and his wife Anne Clark, who are missing.
Jordan said that two shelters told him that the evacuees arrived so quickly that local officials could not keep up with the list, but rather directed their relatives' investigations to a Red Cross database.
"We thought it was better to go down to look for them," Jordan said during a phone interview Sunday after arriving in California on his over 1,000 km drive. "I heard on Twitter that all the shelters located within a radius of 120 km (120 km) are full."
Jordan said that his aunt was suffering from multiple sclerosis and was unable to walk and that it was impossible to know if they could have evacuated their home to heaven.
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1:55 p.m.
According to union officials, at least 39 firefighters lost their homes while they were trying to protect thousands of others against two deadly fires in California.
Tim Aboudara, a representative of the services of the International Association of Fire Fighters, said Sunday that dozens of other firefighters' homes had also been set on fire.
Officials confirmed that 36 fire houses had been destroyed in northern California, of which thousands had been destroyed, most of them when the town of Paradise, at the foot of the Sierra Foothills, was razed to the ground. Three are confirmed lost in a brazier south of California south of Simi Valley.
Confirmed losses affect more than 110 family members and 75 pets. But we think that everyone escaped with their lives.
Most worked for the state's firefighting agency, but some for the city of Chico and another for the San Francisco Bay Area.
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1:15 p.m.
The sheriff of northern California, who oversees search and rescue operations in a deadly fire, says that he feels guilty and happy that his family is safe while others mourn the loss of their homes and their families.
Butte County Sheriff, Kory Honea, said at a press conference Sunday that he was personally investing in anxious searches to find his missing family, many of whom are frail and elderly.
Honea said that he would update the figures on the dead, which were 23 Saturday, later Sunday. The campfire is the third deadliest fire ever recorded in California and the death toll is expected to increase.
Families are trying to locate more than 100 missing persons.
Honea said the investigators could not reach the neighborhoods where there was active fire or power failure
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12:05
Sol Bechtold goes from hut to hut in search of her 75-year-old mother, who is still missing after the fire at her home in Magalia, just north of Paradise, in northern California.
Bechtold made a flyer with a picture of his mother, Joanne Caddy, that he posted on social media and pasted on display boards in shelters and showing displaced people.
He found some of his neighbors, but they had not seen Caddy since the fire. Most of them were working when the fire hit last week and were unable to return to their neighborhood as the roads were closed in the midst of the flames, Bechtold said during a phone interview.
Caddy and her husband had moved to Magalia, a former gold mining camp, in Fremont, California, in the Chicago Bay area, 30 years ago.
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11:55
A mobile home community has suffered a lot from the huge fires that ravaged southern California.
Press helicopters have seen considerable damage to lakeside Seminole Springs in the rugged Santa Monica Mountains, north of Malibu.
Resident Lisa Kin confided on Sunday that when she had felt the fire, she had caught her dog Gidget and had run away. Since then she has spent two nights in an evacuation center.
Kin says that she fears the worst for her community, a mix of families and seniors.
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11:40
The body of a woman who died in the huge forest fire in northern California was found in bed in a burning house in Concow.
A family friend said Ellen Walker, 70, was sick and alone at home when the fire broke out Thursday morning.
According to Nancy Breeding, Walker's husband, Lon, was at work and had called a neighbor to knock on the door to evacuate his wife, but it is unclear if she was on alert at the time.
According to his family, Walker supposedly escaped hell until the authorities confirmed his death on Friday night.
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11:15
A famous 132-year-old gold rush-era wooden footbridge located in Butte County is among the victims of a devastating fire that ravaged the north from California.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the covered 73-foot (738-foot) Honey Run covered bridge near Chico was razed in the fire that ravaged the area on Thursday night. All that remains are carbonized wood beams, corrugated iron and red steel beams protruding from the concrete.
The newspaper claims that it is the only trellis bridge with three spans of its kind in the United States.
It was the backdrop for countless wedding photos and other celebrations over the years and in recent years had been used for movie nights.
The Honey Run covered bridge was on the register of historic places and even had its own badociation to deal with it.
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11:05
A northern California newspaper is among those searching for missing people following the devastating fire that began on Thursday.
David Little, editor of Chico Enterprise-Record and Oroville Mercury-Register, said he hoped to hear employees, Dan Sloane and Sarah Release.
Sloane is a press operator who was supposed to work on Saturday but did not show up. Sloane lives in Magalia, one of the most affected places in Butte County.
Free the works in clbadified ads and live in paradise, decimated by the campfire.
Little says that the publisher has heard Sunday from friends of a second press operator who also lives in Magalia. The operator is safe.
Little says that he hopes the employees are safe and that they are standing somewhere.
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11:00.
A member of Malibu City Council was injured by the huge forest fires burning in southern California.
Councilman Skylar Peak said Sunday that his colleague Jefferson "Zuma Jay" Wagner had been burned to try to save his house, which then burned him.
Peak claims that Wagner is hospitalized on the coast at Santa Monica and that he should recover.
Wagner runs Zuma Jay Surfboards, a long-standing facility on the Pacific Coast Highway, near the famous Malibu Pier.
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10:18
The strong winds of Santa Ana returned to southern California, causing a huge forest fire that ravaged a series of communities west of Los Angeles.
A one – day lull caused by dry, northeasterly winds has ended Sunday morning and authorities warn that gusts will continue until Tuesday.
Fire officials said the lull had allowed firefighters to take 10 percent control of the Woolsey fire, which burned more than 130 km 2 in western Los Angeles County. and southeastern Ventura County since Thursday.
According to Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby, this means that 90% of the fire lines are not confined and that there are many hot spots and a large amount of fuel that will n & # 39; 39 not burned.
Huge clouds of smoke are waking up again in the fire zone, which stretches several kilometers from the northwest corner of the San Fernando Valley from Los Angeles to the Malibu coast.
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10:10
Families are desperately trying to find more than 100 people who disappeared after the fire ravaged the city of Paradise in northern California. Laurie Teague is looking for her 80-year-old father-in-law for days.
Teague called two hospitals in the area in his search for Herb Alderman, but there was no record of it. She called a third hospital, but learned that it had been destroyed in the fire after the evacuation of all patients. She even called the coroner's office.
After answering the phone on the first ring, Teague told a reporter that she hoped that a friend would have taken his stepfather and drove him to a shelter. However, Teague's brother checked several shelters and did not find him.
She said the research was difficult but there was hope.
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9:50
A parking lot located in Paradise, California, serves as a gathering place for hearses, while search teams attempt to trace the bodies of victims of a devastating wildfire.
Authorities have used a mobile DNA lab and anthropologists to help identify the dead, while searching for the victims of the most destructive forest fire in the history of the California has continued. The death toll rose to 23 on Sunday and seemed to increase.
The hearses await the calls of the forensic teams in search of bodies.
California Governor Jerry Brown is asking the president for a "major disaster declaration" for forest fires burning at both ends of the state.
Two people died in fires in Southern California.
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9:45
The Chico police are looking for a man who allegedly stole a firefighter's shirt and then tried to sneak into his hotel room.
Lt. Denis Ford, California's road patrolman, said Saturday that the thief had burst into a fire truck identified by one of the many agencies that were fighting the fire that had devastated the city of Paradise, located at the foot of Sierra Nevada this week. He stole items, including the uniform jersey bearing the fireman's last name on Saturday.
The robber then wore the uniform shirt while trying to convince an employee of the Chico Hotel to let him into the fireman's room, using his last name. But Ford said the seller became suspicious in part because he was not able to identify himself perfectly and fled without being stopped.
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9:30 am
According to the authorities, more than 8,000 firefighters are fighting in three large forest fires on both sides of California, which have destroyed thousands of structures and killed 25 people.
About 795 square kilometers of California burn, the Butte County Campfire in Northern California being the largest.
The campfire killed 23 people and is the third deadliest forest fire ever recorded in California.
The Woolsey Fire, in Southern California, hit Malibu, a celebrity-studded celebrity, as well as the town of Thousand Oaks, which was the scene of a deadly shootout at a music bar country last week.
The weather is good for fires, with strong winds continuing on Sunday in northern California and Tuesday in southern California.
State firefighters continue to arrive to help.
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9:20
The windfalls that ravaged this week's paradise city of Paradise, Northern California, did not result in a similar night-time race in the northeastern cities of Oroville, contrary to what officials had feared.
"It's really growth, and it's happening in those areas," said fire chief Bill Murphy, a spokesman for the California Fire Agency. "It has not increased as much as we thought potential based on weather forecasts, but the wind will continue … so this potential still exists."
Strong, gusting winds from Sunday to Monday morning will still mean 24 hours of "red flag" likely to trigger an "explosive shooting behavior" of the kind that have razed Paradise and other communities in the Sierra Foothill Thursday, he said.
The first day was chaotic and the fire spread about thirty kilometers from Pulga, a small town in the west to the confines of Chico.
The record of fires that have erupted throughout California is set at 25 Sunday and is expected to increase.
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9am
California Governor Jerry Brown is asking the president for a "major disaster declaration" for forest fires burning at both ends of the state.
His office said Sunday in a statement that the statement would strengthen ongoing emergency badistance and help residents recover from the burning fires in Butte, Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
If granted, the declaration would make people eligible for crisis counseling, housing and unemployment badistance, and legal aid.
The fire in Butte County, northern California, killed 23 people and is the third deadliest ever recorded in the state.
The fire record in California was 25 dead Sunday and is expected to increase.
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8:30
Firefighting conditions in Southern California have been favorable overnight and progress has been made, but that should change.
Cal Fire Battalion Chief Lucas Spelman said firefighters had managed to contain 10% of the largest of the two fires in the area.
Forecasters, however, say the calm conditions will give way on Sunday to a new, prolonged wave of Santa Ana winds, the torrential gusts blowing from the interior to the coast.
The number of structures lost in both fires reached 179, but it is expected to increase as damage continues to be badessed.
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7:40
Firefighters battling California's third deadliest forest fire record withstood strong winds overnight and strengthened their control over the fire.
California fire spokesman David Clark said on Sunday that the campfire had increased slightly from 170 square kilometers to 440 square kilometers, compared with 164 square kilometers on Saturday night.
It is now 25% content, compared to 20% on Saturday.
Clark said the crews were at a "pivot point" and that strong winds and dry conditions similar to those of the fire that occurred on Thursday are expected within the next 24 hours.
The fire destroyed more than 6,700 buildings, almost all houses, and killed 23 people.
Two fires in southern California killed two people and 250,000 remain under the command of the evacuation.
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7:30
Authorities have used a mobile DNA lab and anthropologists to help identify the dead, while searching for the victims of the most destructive forest fire in the history of the California has continued. The death toll rose to 23 on Sunday and seemed to increase.
With the village of Paradise being destroyed and the fire still burning in surrounding communities, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said Northern California would establish a fifth research and recovery team.
An anthropology team from California State University in Chico has also helped, because in some cases, "the only remnants we can find are bones or bone fragments."
The ministry has compiled a list of 110 missing persons, but officials expressed the hope that many of them would be safe but did not have a mobile phone or any other means of contacting their loved ones.
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