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At least 31 dead, 228 unaccounted for in fierce California wildfires, police say
The overall death toll from the outbreak of fires in both Northern and Southern California reached at least 31 on Sunday evening and appeared likely to rise as fierce winds fanned the raging flames.
The Butte County Sheriff's Department in the northern part of the state said late Sunday that 228 people are unaccounted for, but officials held out hope that many were safe but had no cellphones or other way to contact loved ones.
All told, more than 8,000 firefighters — at least 39 of whom have now lost their own homes to the fires — battled three large blazes burning across nearly 1,040 square kilometres of the state.
The worst of the fires was in northern California, where flames reduced the town of Paradise, population 27,000, to a smoking ruin days ago and continued to scorch surrounding communities.
The number of people killed in that fire alone — at least 29 — matches the deadliest single fire on record in California, a 1933 blaze in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, though a series of wildfires in Northern California wine country last fall killed 44 people and destroyed more than 5,000 homes.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/californi ... -1.4901303
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