The Latest: Wildfire evacuations lifted for Los Angeles
Authorities have lifted mandatory evacuation orders for the
Fire officials announced Monday night that the evacuation order for a portion of
Several areas of
The Woolsey fire that began last week has killed two people and burned at least 435 buildings, most of them homes.
State fire officials say about 57,000 structures remain at risk.
Authorities picking their way through burned-out neighborhoods say a
The new figures released Monday evening come as a wildfire continues to burn its way through scenic but drought-stricken canyonlands in and around
Fire officials say the immense fire, which stretches from north of
Fire crews also had to stamp out two new smaller fires.
Thousands of homes are still at risk, and forecasters expect gusty
Authorities have reported 13 more fatalities from a blaze in
The dead have been found in burned-out cars, in the smoldering ruins of their homes, or next to their vehicles, apparently overcome by smoke and flames before they could jump in behind the wheel and escape.
In some cases, there were only charred fragments of bone, so small that coroner's investigators used a wire basket to sift and sort them. The search for bodies was continuing.
Hundreds of people were unaccounted for by the sheriff's reckoning, four days after the fire swept over the town of 27,000 with flames so fierce that authorities brought in a mobile DNA lab and forensic anthropologists to help identify the dead.
The statewide death toll from wildfires over the past week has reached 44.
A 1933 blaze in
President
Trump tweeted Monday night that he "wanted to respond quickly in order to alleviate some of the incredible suffering going on."
Democratic Gov.
Trump previously blamed "poor" forest management for the fires. Brown says federal and state governments must do more forest management but says climate change is the greater source of the problem.
More than 30 people have been confirmed dead in the wildfires. Most of the deaths have come from the fire that obliterated the
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They were among at least 29 people who have lost their lives in a wildfire that decimated the town of
Woodcox said he was too exhausted to talk more by phone.
In an interview with the
He said he followed a fox to a path down a steep embankment, and he survived by submerging himself in a stream for nearly an hour.
A newspaper says firefighters and state employees are clearing brush and spreading water to prevent damage to a
Spillways at the 770-foot
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A woman who owns property near the location where a deadly wildfire started in
It's still not clear what caused the massive fire that has killed 29 people.
It started in the area of 64 acres of land in Pulga,
She said she had received an email on Wednesday, the day before the fire started, saying that crews needed to come to her property.
Cowley said the email said crews were coming to work on the high-power lines because "they were having problems with sparks."
Fire officials in
Cal Fire Deputy Operations Chief
A fire behavior specialist at Cal Fire,
The area near
Smith says firefighters are working to build a contingency line to stop the fire from reaching
Osby also emphasized Monday that about 57,000 homes have been saved from the so-called Woolsey fire, which burned along a path about 20 miles (32 kilometers) long and 14 miles (22.5 kilometers) wide.
Residents have been allowed to return home in some areas, but Osby says at least 200,000 people remain evacuated.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Osby says nothing has been ruled out.
A utility is facing increasing criticism following a deadly blaze that leveled a
Flint says he has lived in
He adds that "we need answers from these people."
The fire has destroyed more than 6,000 homes. A cause has not been determined.
So far, Hall has had no luck. Her relatives are in their 80s and 90s and Hall isn't allowed into
Hall asks: "Did they make it in their car? Did they get away? Did their car go over the edge of a mountain somewhere? I just don't know."
Hall was making phone with her daughter's mobile phone from nearby Redding, where her daughter lives.
The couple only had a landline, which had phone numbers programmed into it, and calls to it don't go through.
Hall says her aunt's parents adopted her father when he was a boy and that she is like a big sister to her.
Gusty
Officials say the fires Monday morning west of
The blaze is being bombarded with water drops and ground crews are on the scene.
That fire started not far from where the region's huge Woolsey fire began last Thursday.
The new
Authorities have more than doubled their estimates of buildings destroyed in
Officials said Monday that an estimated 370 structures burned and that only 15 percent of their damage estimate has been completed.
They said over the weekend that 177 buildings had burned amid predictions that the number would grow higher with new damage assessments.
The size of the fire has also increased to more than 143 square miles (370 square kilometers) and was 20 percent contained Monday morning.
The fire erupted last Thursday as gusty, dry
The
Fire behavior specialist at Cal Fire Jonathan Pangburn says the blaze was active all night long and jumped 300-feet (90-meters) across a portion of
Officials say more than 4,500 firefighters are on day four of their battle against the blaze.
After a lull of strong winds that make for dangerous fire conditions, the area near
Some of the thousands of people forced from several communities by the huge
Authorities have also reopened
The positive developments come even though Monday's forecast calls for continuing critical fire danger due to gusty
As of Sunday night, the fire had grown to more than 133 square miles (344 square kilometers) and it was 15 percent contained.
During the weekend authorities reported 177 buildings had burned but said they expect that number to grow when new damage assessments are announced Monday.
At least 31 people are dead in wildfires across
Ten search teams were working in the town of
Statewide, 150,000 remained displaced as more than 8,000 fire crews battled wildfires that have scorched 400 square miles (1,040 square kilometers), with out-of-state crews continuing to arrive. Fire officials are warning that whipping winds and tinder-dry conditions threaten more areas through the rest of the week.
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