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PARADISE, California – Latest news on California wildfires (local time):
2:30 pm in the afternoon.
A surgical nurse evacuated from a northern California hospital with a roaring forest fire nearby says she had to return after her vehicle was burned and one of her legs had taken fire.
Nichole Jolly said Friday that she had helped Thursday evacuate patients from the Adventist Health Feather River Hospital in the city of Paradise, where at least five people have died.
When she tried to leave, she was stuck in the fire storm.
She added that the firefighters had extinguished her burning pants, covered her with a fire blanket and brought her back to the hospital, where she had been waiting for the fire.
She added that the doctors had extinguished burning trees around the hospital in an attempt to contain the flames.
Jolly finally escaped the city.
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1:20 p.m.
Nurses and patients recounted their dramatic escape from a hospital devastated by a forest fire in a northern California city.
Nurse Darrel Wilken told the Chico Enterprise-Record newspaper Friday that the fire in the city of Paradise had been so fast that he and other staff at the Adventist Health Feather River Hospital had used their own cars to evacuate their patients.
Wilken said that he had taken three patients in his car and that two of them were in critical condition. He claimed to have fought traffic jams on a road encircled on both sides by fire.
Cody Knowles, a resident of Paradise, said his wife, Francine, had gallbladder surgery Thursday morning.
When the evacuation was announced, she was still asleep due to anesthesia. He waited for her to wake up and they escaped in the car of an employee of the hospital.
The hospital says that he evacuated 60 patients to other facilities.
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1:10 p.m.
A road leading to a city in northern California devastated by wildfire is strangely deserted.
There was no sign of life Friday on the road towards the city of Paradise, except for the occasional chirping of a bird. A thick yellow haze emanating from the forest fire floated in the air and gave the appearance of a twilight in the middle of the day.
Violent winds had blown the blackened needles of some evergreen trees directly to the side. A car burning at the open doors sat on the shoulder.
Five people were found dead on fire in Paradise. Sheriff officials said they were investigating other reports of deaths. Thousands of buildings have been destroyed.
The city of 27,000, about 289 kilometers northeast of San Francisco, has been completely evacuated.
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13h
The National Recreation Area of the Santa Monica Mountains tweeted that the huge Southern California wildfire had apparently destroyed the television and movie production location known as "Western Town" in the historic Paramount Ranch.
The National Parks Service said it had no details or photos, but the structures that formed the facades of the old west were set on fire on Friday.
The park service indicates that the ranch served as a filming location for productions ranging from "The Adventures of Marco Polo" from 1938 to "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman "and the more recent shows" The Mentalist "and" Weeds ".
Western Town was specially built for television productions in the 1950s and was used for westerns such as "The Cisco Kid" and "Dick Powell's Zane Gray Theater".
The location, located in the mountains west of Los Angeles, dates from 1927 when Paramount Pictures rented the ranch and began filming there.
Filming continued for decades as the ranch changed hands. It was acquired by the National Parks Service in 1980 but continued to function as a filming location.
When they are not used for filming, visitors can wander around Western Town during a hike or on horseback.
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12:10
A sheriff from Northern California said the authorities were trying to confirm reports that more than five people were dead when a forest fire devastated the city of Paradise.
Five people were found dead in vehicles on Friday, but Butte County Sheriff, Korey Honea, told Chico's KHSL / KNVN television channel that new reports of deaths were being made. An investigation.
Honea said the flames and power lines that had fallen in paradise prevented MPs from reaching certain areas.
The five victims were found aboard vehicles in the same area of the city, where residents described traffic jams and panic as they tried to escape the flames Thursday.
Thousands of buildings were destroyed in paradise, about 289 kilometers northeast of San Francisco.
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11:35
A mandatory evacuation order for the entire city of Malibu has been reinstated as one of California's major fires on the enclave called "home" by many Hollywood stars.
An evacuation at the scale of the city had been ordered Friday morning and then reduced.
But it has once again been extended to the Malibu complex, a city of about 13,000 residents spanning 34 kilometers of coastline to the west of Los Angeles.
Traffic is blocked on sections of the Pacific Coast Highway.
Some residents were evacuated to the parking lot of the famous Zuma Beach.
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11:25
A university in northern California closed its campus and canceled weekend events due to a forest fire that was burning very fast.
Officials from California State University, Chico, said Friday on Twitter that the campus was not being evacuated and that mess halls and residences remained open.
The university says that the fire has not entered the confines of the city of Chico and that it is farther away.
Chico has a population of about 93,000 and is located 24 km west of the city of Paradise, which was destroyed by a fire that killed at least five people.
Paradise is 289 kilometers northeast of San Francisco. Smoke from the fire has made air unhealthy in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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11:20
Jessica Van Amber searched the shelters, called and appealed to social media people to help her find her aunt and mother missing after a fierce forest fire in northern California.
About 24 hours after hearing the women for the last time while they were rushing to try to get out of the city of Magalia, Van Amber posted on Twitter: "UPDATE: MY MOM HAS BEEN FOUND !!! !!! "
Van Amber, her uncle, announced that the women were safe and were leaving Friday morning to find their loved ones in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She says the women stayed at home during the night while the fire spread over the neighborhood and ended up looking for shelter in their car. Early Friday, they drove away and made contact with relatives.
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11:15
Sheriff's officials in Northern California said the five people found dead in vehicles burned by the flames of a forest fire could not be identified immediately because of the burns they had sustained.
The Butte County Sheriff's Office announced Friday that autopsies would be conducted.
Officials said the victims were found in the same locality of the city of Paradise, near a main artery devastated by the flames and extending outside the city.
All 27,000 residents of the city were ordered to evacuate on Thursday, as the forest fire quickly turned into a hell.
Many residents said that traffic jams have developed after their departure, when panicked people have fled, some leaving their cars to escape on foot.
The fire reached nearly 110 square miles (285 square kilometers).
Paradise is 289 kilometers northeast of San Francisco.
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11h
Officials in northern California said the investigators had found five people dead in vehicles burned by the flames of a fierce forest fire.
The Butte County Sheriff's Office announced Friday that the victims had been found in the same area of the city of Paradise.
The fire reached nearly 110 square miles (285 square kilometers).
Paradise is 289 kilometers northeast of San Francisco.
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10:20
A California National Guard official announced that 100 military policemen would travel to northern California to help evacuate residents from a fire.
Major-General David Baldwin said other military personnel were studying satellite imagery to assess the extent of the damage and map the fire.
The fierce fire near Paradise, a city in northern California, has reached 285 square kilometers.
Paradise is 289 kilometers northeast of San Francisco.
The smoke from the fire has made air unhealthy in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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10:10
Fire officials said that forest fire evacuation in southern California is expected to reach about 148,000 people and that structural losses are expected to be significant.
The so-called Woolsey fire, burning west of Los Angeles, has surpassed 39 square miles (39 square kilometers) on Friday morning and continues to grow.
According to the deputy fire chief of Los Angeles County, Dave Richardson, 45,000 people in Ventura County and another 43,000 in Los Angeles County have been ordered to evacuate overnight.
Richardson estimates that 60,000 more people will have to evacuate because the fire made the American 101 leap early Friday and is heading towards the coast.
He says that the pace of the fire has forced firefighters to focus on protecting life rather than safeguarding structures and he expects that number, which remains to be determined, to be significant.
Another fire in the west has burned more than 9 km 2 (23 km 2) in Ventura County, but has slowed since it reached the mark of a fire that ravaged the vegetation in 2013.
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10 hours
A California fire official said six major fires were burning around the state and described three of them as "critical".
Ken Pimlott, director of the California Department of Forests and Fire Protection, said Friday's firefighters are dedicated to saving lives and continuing to save people from fires.
The fire near Paradise, a city in northern California, has reached 285 square kilometers.
Another fire in northwestern Los Angeles was swept southward towards the ocean by the strong winds of Santa Ana.
Evacuation orders have been issued for residents of the Malibu coastal community.
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9:55
A New Hampshire woman said that she and her brother were desperately trying to get information about their 83-year-old mother, who lives in the Californian city of Magalia, near the devastated city of Paradise.
Diane Forsman says Jean Forsman can not walk and is under oxygen.
She says, "We try to keep hope until we get news. We do not know what the outcome will be. "
She and her brother posted on Facebook and Twitter on Thursday, asking if anyone had seen their mother. They tried to call 911 and other numbers. They were told that officials had a list of 300 to 400 welfare checks to make.
Eventually, they learned through Facebook that someone from her neighborhood had found a disabled woman but they had not been able to confirm if it was their mother.
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9:40
The director of the California Governor's Emergency Services Office said that fires throughout California had forced 157,000 people out of their homes.
Mark Ghilarducci provided the figure at a press briefing on Friday.
Fires are burning in northern and southern California.
The fire near Paradise, a city in northern California, has reached 285 square kilometers.
Another fire in northwestern Los Angeles was swept southward towards the ocean by the strong winds of Santa Ana. Evacuation orders have been issued for residents of the seaside community of Malibu
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9:30 am
The director of the emergency services office of the governor of California said that a fire in northern California had cost the lives.
Mark Ghilarducci said Friday that the death toll was not known. He said that there were also wounded.
He says the magnitude of the destruction is incredible and heartbreaking.
The fire near the city of Paradise has reached 285 square kilometers.
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9:15
Some people who escaped a forest fire in northern California spent the night in a church in the nearby town of Chico.
Residents of the city of Paradise on Friday told poignant stories about a slow evacuation of a fire so close that they could feel it inside their vehicles as they sat in a terrifying stalemate.
They say it was as if the entire city of 27,000 inhabitants decided to leave immediately.
The fire encircled the escape route and the drivers panicked, some crashed and others abandoned their vehicles to try their luck on foot.
Many rural residents have propane tanks on their property and the tanks have exploded.
Resident Karen Auday said, "They exploded like bombs."
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8:45
Authorities have issued an unhealthy air quality alert for parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, while smoke from a huge forest fire spread southward, polluting it. l & # 39; air.
Officials said the thousands of structures in the city of Paradise, located 290 km northeast of San Francisco, were destroyed by the fire that charred a total charred area of 285 km2. At least 40,000 people have been displaced.
In San Francisco, the air on Friday is foggy and the smell of smoke is overwhelming, prompting officials to report unsafe air quality.
They advise the elderly and children to move their physical activities inland.
All people are encouraged to limit their outdoor activities.
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8:25
The city of Malibu has reduced the scope of a mandatory evacuation order for the seaside community in the approach of a forest fire.
Malibu officials initially indicated that the order issued Friday morning applied to the entire city, but that they have now defined an area roughly representing two-thirds of the population of the west.
The fire erupted Thursday north-west of Los Angeles and was swept southward towards the ocean by the strong winds of Santa Ana.
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8:20
A fire official said a forest fire in northern California had put 15,000 homes and 2,000 commercial buildings at "imminent danger of fires."
Captain Koby Johns of the California Department of Forests and Fire Protection also announced Friday that nearly 2,000 buildings had already been destroyed. He described these figures as "very elastic".
Johns says that strong winds continue to cause fire but that the winds are expected to abate Friday afternoon, which could give the firefighters an opportunity to start containing it.
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7:50
A fire official in California said that a fire in northern California had almost quadrupled overnight.
Captain Scott McLean of the California Department of Forests and Fire Protection said that the fire near the city of Paradise had reached nearly 285 square kilometers.
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7:25
A forest fire raging in southern California has triggered a mandatory eviction order for the entire seaside town of Malibu.
The fire erupted Thursday north-west of Los Angeles and roared south, leaking the American Highway 101 early Friday and extending into the Santa Monica Mountains.
Malibu has about 13,000 inhabitants and is located along the coast at the southern foot of the mountain range.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department tweeted that the fire was heading towards the ocean, punctuating the message of the following statement: "Imminent Threat!
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7:15
Northern California officials said a forest fire that devastated a town of 27,000 was moving north and ordered residents of two communities at the foot of Sierra Nevada to leave their homes. .
The Butte County Sheriff's Office announced that an eviction order had been ordered Friday for the small communities of Stirling and Inskip, north of Paradise, where thousands of homes had been destroyed.
According to Captain Bill Murphy, the fire has stalled, the winds have calmed down in the valley, but there are "unsteady and erratic winds" with speeds of up to 45 miles at the hour (72 mph). km / h) along the ridges.
The fire that started Thursday morning in eastern paradise and decimated the city has also spread to the west.
He reached the outskirts of Chico, a city of 90,000 residents on Thursday night. According to Murphy, firefighters were able to stop the fire on the outskirts of the city, where evacuation orders remained in place.
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7h
The forest fires that raged west of Los Angeles forced the closure of schools.
The Pepperdine University canceled its courses Friday on its Malibu and Calabasas campuses. The Calabasas campus is also evacuated.
The public schools of Malibu are also closed.
West of Ventura County, Moorpark College is closed due to fire and deadly shooting on Wednesday night in nearby Thousand Oaks.
California Lutheran University had already canceled Friday classes because of the shooting. Cal Lutheran said his Thousand Oaks campus was not under evacuation but that students in residence had been put on hold.
The unified school district of the Conejo Valley area in the Thousand Oaks area has also closed all of its schools.
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6:30 in the morning.
Two fires raging in the west of Los Angeles have forced thousands of people to leave their homes.
Fire departments in Los Angeles and Ventura County said several buildings had been destroyed or damaged, but their exact number was not available on Friday.
The flames are fueled by the infamous Santa Ana winds of southern California, blowing from the northeast to the coast.
Both fires broke out Thursday afternoon and grew rapidly.
A fire that erupted near the northeastern corner of Los Angeles erupted into the west, leapt from US 101 into the Calabasas region, and spread into the Santa Monica Mountains.
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6:15
Evacuations were ordered near the town of Chico, in northern California, about 24 km from a town where thousands of buildings were destroyed by a fast-moving forest fire.
Captain Scott McLean of the California Department of Forests and Fire Protection said that the flames of the fire that devastated the city of Paradise had reached the east coast of Chico, a city of 39, about 90,000 inhabitants.
Authorities said at least two firefighters and several residents had been injured in paradise. McLean said Friday morning that he had no immediate information about the injuries.
He added that the strong winds prevented the planes from effectively dumping the self-timer on the fire.
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12
A fast-paced forest fire that ravaged a northern California town on Thursday caused residents to flee on roads that turned into fire tunnels as thick smoke clouded the sky during the day.
A Cal Fire official said thousands of structures had been destroyed.
Poignant stories of escape and heroic rescue have emerged from paradise, where the entire community of 27,000 inhabitants has been summoned to evacuate. Witnesses reported seeing homes, supermarkets, businesses, restaurants, schools and a nursing home on fire.
The fire was reported shortly after sunrise in a rural area. By nightfall he had consumed more than 28 square miles and was raging uncontrollably.
The authorities indicate that at least two firefighters and several residents have been injured.
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