More people missing as deaths confirmed as California fire continues

More people missing as deaths confirmed as California fire continues

Human remains believed to be that of a missing elderly woman and her two great-grandchildren were found at a home destroyed

This was by a monster wildfire raging in Northern California, officials said on Saturday, raising the death toll from the blaze to five.

The three bodies have yet to be positively identified. But news of their discovery, confirmed by the Shasta County sheriff, came as some 3,500 firefighters struggled through a sixth day to corral fierce, erratic flames stoked by tinder-dry vegetation, high winds and triple-digit temperatures.

 

The Carr Fire has charred nearly 84,000 acres (34,000 hectares), an area nearly three times the size of San Francisco, since erupting on Monday near Redding, a city of 90,000 people about 160 miles (260 kms) north of the state capital Sacramento.

The blaze was one of about a dozen major wildfires burning across California on Saturday and of nearly 90 overall from Texas to Oregon.

Published: by Radio NewsHub
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