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The latest on California wildfires (all times local):
10:50 am
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Chief John Benedict says he has been found dead in the fire zone of a Southern California blaze.
The deaths are the first of a couple of wildfires burning north and west of downtown Los Angeles that have torn through 109 square miles and destroyed more than 150 homes since Thursday.
Benedict gave no details on the deaths. He said Saturday Sheriff's detectives are investigating.
Wildfires burning in California have now killed 11 people. Nine have been found dead in fires in Northern California.
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9:15 a.m.
A wildfire in Southern California has more than doubled in size, and firefighters are searching through burned-out neighborhoods looking for new destruction from a blaze that has already destroyed 150 homes.
Officials took advantage of calm conditions Saturday morning to assess a city in the city of Los Angeles.
Thousand Oaks and Malibu are some of the cities that are expected to survive.
A smoky haze is still hanging in blue skies in the area Saturday, with the vicious winds that drove the flames in their first two days and expected to stay away until Sunday.
Firefighters are scrambling to take advantage of the better conditions to start reining in the blaze.
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8:45 am
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National Weather Service meteorologist Alex Hoon says the area will be forced to run 30 miles per hour (48 kilometers per hour) with gusts up to 50 mph (80 kph).
The blaze that started Thursday outside the hilly town of Paradise has grown to 156 square miles (404 square kilometers). Officials say the town has been completely destroyed.
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7:45 AM
Officials say a deadly blaze that leveled a Northern California town has spread overnight but crews also got some control over the flames.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said that it was 20 percent contained.
Cal Fire says the blaze that started in the hills of Paradise destroyed 6,453 homes and 260 businesses. An additional 15,000 structures are being threatened. At least nine people have died.
Officials say more than 3,000 firefighters are battling the blaze, which is California's most destructive wildfire since record-keeping.
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1:30 am
President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold federal payments to California, claiming its forest management is "so poor."
Trump says Saturday via Twitter that "there is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly fires in California." Trump says "trillions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests.
The comments were made on the subject of massive wildfires, which is one of the most important things in the history of California.
Wildfires also raged in Southern California, including the town of Thousand Oaks, where a gunmen died at a local bar.
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