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REDDING, Calif. – The latest on California wildfires (all local times):
19:00
Authorities ordered evacuations following a fire in a northern county from California.
Cal Fire says that the fire began Saturday afternoon and about 100 acres were affected in the Lake Berryessa area of Napa County.
The Napa Valley Registry reports that three houses may have been destroyed. The officer, Mary Booher, told the newspaper that the houses were part of the 15 structures damaged at the very beginning of the fire
The newspaper reports that 80 homes were evacuated.
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5:20 pm
Authorities say they made an arrest related to looting in northern California neighborhoods evacuated due to a deadly fire.
Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko told anxious residents at a community meeting on Saturday that authorities had stuck a parolee.
Residents applauded and did so again later, when Redding Police Chief Roger Moore said his agents had other suspects.
More than 38,000 people have been displaced since the beginning of the fire on Monday. At least three civilians and two firefighters were killed.
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2:40 pm
Authorities indicate that they are investigating reports of looting in northern California neighborhoods that were evacuated due to a deadly fire.
Redding Police Chief Roger Moore says his department has received reports of people circulating around evacuated areas and doors of houses still standing
no arrests were made. According to Tom Bosenko, the authorities are strengthening security in the evacuation zones.
According to him, more than 100 officers and 260 National Guard soldiers help evacuate and provide security in empty neighborhoods.
Bosenko says that more than 38,000 people have been displaced. The fire started on Monday. At least three civilians and two firefighters were killed.
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2 pm
A bulldozer operator killed during a massive fire in northern California was identified
The Shasta County Sheriff's Office said Saturday that The bulldozer operator helping clear vegetation in the forest fire pathway was identified as 81-year-old Don Smith of Pollock Pines, California.
Firefighters stated that Smith and his equipment had been hired privately. His body was found Thursday night in Redding
A Redding firefighter was also killed fighting the fire that began on Monday.
Family members of three missing persons said that their deaths had been confirmed by Sherry Bledsoe. his grandmother, Melody Bledsoe, 70, and his children, James Roberts, age 5, and Emily Roberts, age 4, died in the fire near Redding
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1:15 pm [19659003FamilymembersclosetheirrelatedpeoplefromNorthCaliforniafortressfirewaseconfirmedmortas
Sherry Bledsoe said Saturday that her two children and her grandmother died in the fire near Redding. The massive fire started burning on Monday about 100 miles (161 kilometers) south of the Oregon border.
The dead were identified as 70-year-old Melody Bledsoe and her great-grandchildren, 5-year-old James Roberts and 4-year-old Emily Roberts,
were desperate to reach them since the flames razed the house where they were stranded Thursday
Bledsoe's husband was going to fetch supplies at the store when the boy called him and said he had to go home because the fire was approaching . ___
12:45 pm
Police in a northern California city says that she has failed to locate 14 people, including a 70-year-old woman and her youth great-grandchildren, in the middle of a forest fire.
Redding Police Sgt. Todd Cogle said he was expecting most of the 14's to be safe as their homes survived the Shasta County wildfires. He says some may have communication problems.
Cogle said that he could not comment on Melody Bledsoe and James Roberts, 5, and Emily Roberts, 4, who are still missing. He said the Shasta County Sheriff's Office was investigating
The police surrounded Bledsoe's property with a crime scene band
An investigator on Saturday did not say if remains had been found . displaced at least 37,000 people
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12:20 pm
A shelter for people displaced by a massive fire in northern California has reached full capacity as firefighters order more evacuations.
Peter Griggs, a According to Shasta College spokesman in Redding, the school's evacuation center reached its maximum capacity on Saturday and hosts 500 people.
The college gymnasium is filled with beds and volunteers from the American Red Cross provide food, water and medical services.
Fire officials in California say that other mandatory evacuations were ordered Saturday afternoon for communities south of Redding and that three other shelters still take evacuees.
a fire that began on Monday displaced at least 37,000 people
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11:20
Police surrounded a burned property with a crime scene where two children and their great-grandmother were missing after a forest fire in northern California destroyed their home.
An investigator on Saturday did not say if remains had been found, but the police closed the road at home. Family members desperately sought out Melody Bledsoe, 70, and two of her great-grandchildren who lived with her at Quartz Hill Road in Redding.
Jason Decker, a relative's boyfriend, says Bledsoe Ed's husband, was at the store Thursday when his five-year-old grandson, James Roberts, called to say that he had to go home because the fire was near.
Decker says that when Ed Bledsoe tried to go home, the police I let him pass a roadblock because the fire was raging.
Decker says Melody, the boy and his 4-year-old sister, Emily Roberts, are all missing.
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11:00 am
President Donald Trump issued an emergency statement for California allowing counties affected by forest fires to receive federal assistance.
A White House statement released Saturday indicates that the statement allows the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide the necessary equipment and resources. High In 1965, California firefighters announced that more than 10,000 firefighters were working to halt the progression of 14 large fires throughout the state.
They say the fires killed three firefighters and destroyed More than 500 structures
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9:55
Two blazes burned 50 kilometers from each other threaten dozens of buildings and provoked mandatory evacuations in Mendocino County, Northern California.
that began Friday burn about 120 miles (200 kilometers) southwest of Redding, California, which is near a massive wildfire that thousands of evacuation orders underlying.
The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office says mandatory evacuations are in place north of Highway 175 near Hopland, California.
Lake County neighboring authorities say residents of Benmore Valley were ordered to evacuate on Saturday
They say flames threaten more than 350 buildings
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This object has been corrected to show that fire is burning near Hopland, not Ukiah, California.
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9:00 am
Authorities claim that a deadly fire in Northern California has nearly doubled at night but is moving away from populated areas.
Chris Anthony, deputy chief of the California Department of Forests and Fire Protection, said Saturday The fire in Shasta County burned 125 square miles (320 square kilometers). The fire covered 75 square kilometers (194 square kilometers) Friday night.
Anthony says the winds fuel the fire but also repel him from Redding, a town of 90,000, and other populated areas. . Thousands of people remain under evacuation orders, including the small towns of Ono and Igo.
The explosive forest fire in northern California killed two firefighters and destroyed 500 buildings. Five thousand other buildings are still under threat.
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7h
A forest fire in the far north of California has destroyed at least 500 structures and remains for the most part unconfined. The air strangles with the smell of smoke and chemicals. The smoking remains are still too hot to sift. And the weather report promises warmer, drier conditions, bad news for firefighters at Carr Fire.
The forest fire swept the small community of Keswick, swept the historic town of Shasta and struck houses at Redding. Nearly 5,000 more homes are under threat and about 37,000 remain under evacuation orders.
Two firefighters were killed while the flames rumbled. Other large fires burn outside Yosemite National Park and in the San Jacinto Mountains. The National Interagency Fire Center tracks 89 major active fires in 14 states.
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