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Death toll rises in California wildfire, matching deadliest

By GILLIAN FLACCUS, PAUL
ELIAS and ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) —
As relatives desperately
searched shelters for miss-
ing loved ones on Sunday,
crews searching the smok-
ing ruins of Paradise and
outlying areas found six
more bodies, raising the
death toll to 29, match-
ing the deadliest wildfire in
state history.
Wildfires continued to rage
on both ends of the state,
with gusty winds expected
overnight which will chal-
lenge firefighters. The state-
wide death toll stood at 31
and appeared certain to
rise. The so-called Camp
fire that ravaged a swath
of Northern California was
the deadliest. A total of 29
bodies have been found
so far from that fire, Butte
County Sheriff Kory Honea
told a news briefing Sun-
day evening. He said 228
people were still unac- Vehicles and a home are in ruins, one of at least 20 homes that were lost on Windermere Drive in the Point Dume area of Malibu,
counted for. At least five Calif., Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018.
search teams were work- Associated Press
ing in Paradise — a town
of 27,000 that was largely ternoon, one of the two shelter to shelter looking for social media, pinned it to and haze to yet another
incinerated on Thursday black hearses stationed his mother, Joanne Caddy, bulletin boards at shelters shelter, he said, “I’m also
— and in surrounding com- in Paradise had picked a 75-year-old widow whose and showed her picture under a dark emotional
munities. Authorities called up another set of remains. house burned down along around to evacuees, ask- cloud. Your mother’s some-
in a mobile DNA lab and People looking for friends or with the rest of her neigh- ing if anyone recognized where and you don’t know
anthropologists to help relatives called evacuation borhood in Magalia, just her. He ran across a few where she’s at. You don’t
identify victims of the most centers, hospitals, police north of Paradise. She lived of Caddy’s neighbors, but know if she’s safe.”
destructive wildfire in Cali- and the coroner’s office. alone and did not drive. they hadn’t seen her. As he
fornia history. By early af- Sol Bechtold drove from Bechtold posted a flyer on drove through the smoke Continued on Page 3