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By Phil Helsel
The number of people killed in California's deadliest fire on Saturday rose to 76 as search and rescue continued, seeking to find the dead in the ashes of Butte County, the sheriff said.
The remains of five others were found in Paradise and in the community of Concow, said coroner Kory L. Honea of Butte County. Four of the remains were found in houses in Paradise and one outside a structure in Concow.
In southern California, three people were killed in another fire, bringing to at least 79 the number of victims of both fires across the country.
The number of names on a list of people missing as a result of the camp fire went from 1,011 to 1,276, down from 1,276 on Friday, but Honea said some of these reports could be doubles or people who survived but did not consult the list. or notified authorities. More than 700 people previously classified as unrecorded were found, he said. Of the 76 dead, officials have provisionally identified 63.
Earlier Saturday, President Donald Trump went to the Butte County Fire District and met with first responders and people affected by the fire.
"To see what happened here, no one would have ever thought it could have happened," said Trump in the city of Paradise, which has 26,000 residents devastated by the fire of camp.
Trump promised that the federal government would be alongside California in its recovery efforts. "We will all work together and we will do a real job," said Trump. "But it's very sad to see."
The president also went to southern California, where another fire, the so-called Woolsey fire, which also erupted on November 8, burned over 200,000 hectares and destroyed more than 800 homes. and other buildings.
The campfire that erupted early in the morning of November 8 was whipped by high winds and moved so fast that it was estimated at one point that it was burning. equivalent of 80 football pitches per minute, said Captain Chris Vestal, Sacramento firefighter.
"It burned about 6,000 acres of initial reports in the early hours," said Vestal. Sacramento is about 80 miles south of paradise.
When Vestal arrived in paradise, he said the destruction was hard to describe.
"It's a mess," said Vestal. "There is really no way to describe the devastation outright – there are very few homes left, the damage to commercial and commercial buildings is considerable," he said.
"We want to make sure that we do everything we can to control the fire, but also to help this community to return, and to help it become dynamic again," said Vestal. "However, the road will be long."
The camp fire destroyed at least 9,891 residences and 367 commercial buildings, as well as other structures, making it the most destructive forest fire in the history of the California; The 2017 fire in Napa and Sonoma counties destroyed 5,636 structures.
Also the deadliest forest fire in the history of the state, the campfire eclipsed the dark stage of the 29 dead in the Griffith Park fire in 1933 in Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles Times, more than 3,700 workers maintained trails and built roads in the park when the fire broke out on October 3, 1933.
About 149,000 acres burned in Butte County on Saturday night and the fire was under control at 55 percent, said a Cal Fire official.
Researchers go door to door and drive to search for victims who may be in the burning zone. A senior official involved in the search said Friday that the area to be searched, with more than 10,000 structures destroyed, is "huge".
In addition to the destructions in northern California, the Woolsey Fire, which also erupted on November 8, wreaked havoc in Southern California.
The fire that burned an area almost the size of Denver, in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, was controlled by 82 percent Saturday afternoon, according to Cal Fire.
The causes of both fires are still under study.
Another fire in southern California, Hill Fire, was found to be under control, but not until it burned more than 4,500 hectares in Ventura County and destroyed four structures. Fire officials determined that this was a human activity. A $ 10,000 reward is available for information to anyone who may be responsible for it.
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