Teams search for bodies in California after wildfire claims 42 lives
Teams search for bodies in California after wildfire claims 42 lives
California — Search teams will fan out across the charred landscape of the town here, looking for human remains on Tuesday as authorities prepare for a rise in the death count from the state’s deadliest wildfire yet. The “Camp Fire” blaze still raging in Northern California has killed at least 42 people. Another 228 have been listed as missing, Butte county sheriff Kory Honea said. Two more people died in the separate Woolsey fire that has destroyed 435 structures and displaced about 200,000 people in the mountains and foothills near Southern California’s Malibu coast, west of Los Angeles.
Camp Fire, already ranked as the most destructive on record in California in terms of property losses, has consumed more than 7,100 homes and other structures since igniting on Thursday in Butte county’s Sierra foothills, about 280km north of San Francisco. A total of 150 search-and-recovery personnel were due to arrive on Tuesday, bolstering 13 coroner-led recovery teams in the fire zone, H...
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