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7,000 more residents evacuated in California due to wildfires

The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services said a total of 42,100 residents have been evacuated due to the raging wildfires across state, with 7,000 more people in the last 24 hours ago.

California hits grim milestone with 4 million acres burned in wildfires

Flames have scorched an area larger than Connecticut

California wildfire: Residents again face fire anguish as homes burn

Northern California's wine country was on fire again as strong winds fanned flames in already scorched region, destroying homes and prompting overnight evacuation orders for more than 50,000 people

Smoke chokes West Coast as death keep climbing from California wildfire

Wildfire smoke that posed a health hazard to millions choked the West Coast on Saturday as firefighters battled deadly blazes

Death toll from devastating wildfires in US West Coast approaching 30

According to the Saturday report from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), a total of 19 people have been killed by wildfires in the state so far

High-intensity California wildfires getting bigger, moving faster than ever

Among the most concerning developments is that fast-moving wildfires leave less time for warnings or evacuations

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California wildfires some of largest in state history, thousands flee

More than 12,000 firefighters aided by helicopters and air tankers are battling wildfires throughout California

In pictures: Hundreds of wildfires burning across the state in California

Nearly two dozen wildfires in and around the Santa Cruz Mountains along the Pacific coast, 22,000 people evacuated

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California wildfires: Death toll rises to 80, more than 900 people missing

Officials said the death toll from Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history, could keep rising

California wildfire: Missing list reaches 631, remains of 7 victims found

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said the number of missing had more than doubled during the day as investigators went back and checked emergency calls made when the fire broke out a week ago

California fires: Death toll rises to 59, number of missing climbs to 130

Fifty-six deaths have been reported from the "Camp Fire," mostly in Paradise, while three people have died in the 'Woolsey Fire'

California wildfire: 50 dead, thousands of firefighters battle blazes

With hundreds of people unaccounted for, the toll is likely to rise in California

In pics: California wildfire toll at 42; fire crews' fight continues

The dead were 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. At least 42 people were confirmed dead in the wildfire that turned the Northern California town of Paradise and outlying areas into hell on earth, making it the deadliest blaze in state history. The search for bodies continued Monday. Hundreds of people were unaccounted for by the sheriff's reckoning, four days after the fire swept over the town of 27,000 and practically wiped it off the map with flames so fierce that authorities brought in a mobile DNA lab and forensic anthropologists to help identify the dead. Meanwhile, a landowner near where the blaze began, Betsy Ann Cowley, said she got an email from Pacific Gas & Electric Co. the day before

California wildfire bigger than New York city, 5th largest in history

Fanned by strong winds, it has become the fifth largest wildfire in recorded state history after it grew by more than 50,000 acres in a day.

At least 23 dead in 'catastrophic' California wildfires

More than 200 fire engines and firefighting crews from around the country were being rushed to California to help battle infernos which have left at least 23 people dead and thousands homeless. "This is a serious, critical, catastrophic event," California fire chief Ken Pimlott told reporters. "We're not going to be out of the woods for a great number of days to come." Pimlott said that after a respite on Tuesday winds kicked up again on Wednesday and the winds and dry conditions were hampering efforts to contain the blazes. "We are still impacted by five years of drought," the director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said. "These fires were driven by the critically dry fuel bed," he added. "We are literally looking at explosive vegetation." Pimlott said the death toll from the fires, among the deadliest ever in California, could be expected to go up further. Thirteen of the deaths have occurred in Sonoma County, a wine-produc

Evacuations lifted, California fire now contained

Officials said the blaze in Riverside County grew to nearly 2 square miles

Landmark Hearst Castle closed as US wildfires bear down

Firefighters are battling to bring some half-dozen active fires raging across California under control

More Californians refusing to evacuate despite fire danger

Some say wildfires have now become a part of living in the wildlands