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REDDING, Calif. (AP) – A deadly forest fire in Northern California has destroyed more than 500 buildings and is threatening thousands of others while it's raging in its fourth day .
Fire in the Redding area of the dead, including a 70-year-old woman and her two great-grandchildren
About 38,000 people remained under evacuation orders on Saturday and are staying with relatives or in hotels or shelters.
Anna Noland, evacuated twice in three days, learned Friday that she had lost her home. She says that's hard to believe.
A vehicle problem lit the fire on Monday, but it was not until Thursday that the fire exploded and ran into communities west of Redding before entering within the city limits. Saturday, towards the tiny communities of Ono, Igo and Gas Point
The fire has risen slightly to 340 square kilometers on Saturday.
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A bulldozer operator was killed when he was overtaken by a massive fire in northern California was identified.
The Shasta County Sheriff's Office said Saturday that the bulldozer operator helping to clear vegetation in the fire path has been identified. Don Smith, 81, from Pollock Pines, California.
California firefighters reported 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 Monday.
Family members of three missing persons stated that their deaths had been confirmed. 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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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 Emily Roberts-4-
Family members had a bee n desperately seeking to reach them since the flames razed the house where they were stranded Thursday
Bledsoe's husband was going to get some supplies at the store when the boy called him and said he had to go home because the fire was approaching . ___
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Police in a northern California town says they were unable to locate 14 people, including a 70-year-old woman and her young great-grandchildren. children, in the middle of a wild 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
Police surrounded Bledsoe's property with the crime scene band
An investigator on Saturday would 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 its full capacity as firefighters order more evacuations.
Peter Griggs, a According to the 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 are 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 are desperate for Melody Bledsoe, 70, and two of her great-grandchildren who lived with her at the home of Quartz Hill Road in Redding.
Jason Decker, a parent's boyfriend, says Bledsoe Ed's husband, was at the store on 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 did not let him pass through 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 lights a gigantic forest fire in northern California that nearly doubled during the night.
California firefighters say more than 10,000 firefighters are working to stop the progression of 14 large fires throughout the state
More than 500 structures.
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9:55
Two blazes burned 50 kilometers from each other threaten dozens of buildings and caused mandatory evacuations in Mendocino County, Northern California.
which began Friday burn about 120 miles (200 kilometers) southwest of Redding, California, which is near a massive wildfire that thousands of orders from. evacuation.The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office says mandatory evacuations are in place for people living area north of Highway 175 near Hopland, California.
Lake County neighboring authorities say residents of Benmore Valley were ordered to evacuate on Saturday
They say fires 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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A forest fire in the far north of California 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 working the so-called 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 as 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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