At least 71 people have died in the catastrophic California wildfires while a further 1,000 are still missing, officials have said.
What was already the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state’s history now ranks as one of the most lethal wildfires in the US.
Recovery teams with cadaver dogs pressed on with their search for more victims in a flame-ravaged northern California town on Friday as authorities sought clues to the fate of those still missing.
Remains of at least 71 people have been recovered so far in and around the Sierra foothills hamlet of Paradise, which was home to nearly 27,000 residents before the town was largely incinerated by the deadly Camp Fire on the night of November. The aftermath is seen above
Search and rescue teams say they are focused on finding victims both dead and alive
A sign warning to looters sits in the foreground of burned properties in the aftermath of the Camp fire that tore through Paradise
The number of people unaccounted for grew from 631 on Thursday night to more than 1,011 on Friday.
But Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said the list is imperfect and will fluctuate in number because it is raw data that needs to be refined. He said it could easily contain duplicate names and unreliable spellings of names.
He said the list probably includes some who fled the blaze and do not realise they've been reported missing.
Honea admitted it's 'certainly within the realm of possibility that we will never know' the exact number of people killed in the blaze.
'It is my sincere hope that we identify everybody who is missing and identify any remains,' he added according to the Washington Post. 'But that is the nature of this tragedy. ... This is a massive, massive undertaking.'
A car with the words 'Paradise Strong' painted on the window drives through a Walmart parking lot where Camp Fire evacuees have been staying
The sheriff said that he was making the list of missing public so people could see if they were on it and let authorities know they were safe.
'The chaos that we were dealing with was extraordinary,' Mr Honea said of the crisis.
'Now we’re trying to go back out and make sure that we’re accounting for everyone'.
The sheriff asked relatives of the missing to submit DNA samples to hasten identification of the dead, but acknowledged some of those unaccounted for may never be conclusively found.
Remains of at least 71 people have been recovered so far in and around the Sierra foothills hamlet of Paradise
The once picturesque town was home to nearly 27,000 residents before it was largely incinerated by the deadly Camp Fire on the night of November 8.
More than a week later, firefighters have managed to carve containment lines around 45 percent of the blaze's perimeter, up from 35 percent a day earlier, even as the burned landscape grew slightly to 142,000 acres.
Nearly 12,000 homes and buildings, including most of the town, were incinerated hours after the blaze erupted, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has said.
Thousands of additional structures were still threatened by the Camp Hill fire, and as many as 50,000 people were under evacuation orders at the height of the blaze.
Donald Trump, who has been criticized for casting blame on forest management for the destruction the wildfires caused, plans to visit the fire zones on Saturday to meet displaced residents, the White House announced.
A search and rescue team combs through the debris for possible human remains at Paradise Gardens with the help of sniffer dogs
escue workers shake a burned mattress as they search for bone fragments while collecting human remains from a home destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise
A firefighter searches for human remains in a trailer park destroyed in the Camp Fire in Paradise
Volunteer rescue workers search for human remains in the rubble of homes burned in the Camp Fire in Paradise
A search and rescue dog searches for human remains at the Camp Fire on Friday
A row of cars destroyed by fire along with every house in this Northern California neighborhood
On the eve of a trip to California to survey wildfire damage, Trump told 'Fox News Sunday' that he'd spoken with another state's governor about how to control the spread of fires.
'You need forest management. It has to be. I’m not saying that in a negative way, a positive -- I’m just saying the facts. And I’ve really learned a lot,' he explained.
Trump told host Chris Wallace that he's going to California to speak with firefighters about the devastation.
'Nobody’s ever seen what’s going on over there and now they’re saying it could be as many as 600, this just came out before we met, could be as many as 600 people killed, up by 400.'
Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said the number of people who died now stands at 71 while the number of people who remain unaccounted for now stands at more than 1,011
Sherrif Kory Honea and members of his department visit a makeshift hospital in Paradise
'It’s incredible what’s going on,' he said of the missing persons count. 'And burned beyond recognition, they can’t even see the bodies, it’s incredible.'.
Firefighters in Northern California have mixed thoughts on President Donald Trump's criticism of forest management but say their main focus is fighting the blaze.
As firefighters returned to a command center in the Northern California city of Chico on Friday after 24-hour shifts, some learned for the first time that Trump was scheduled to visit Saturday.
Firefighter Joshua Watson said he viewed the upcoming visit as a sign of support for firefighters, "no matter what you think about him."
Gary Jacobs, a firefighter sent from San Mateo County, said everybody has their own opinions and he stays out of politics.
Trump initially responded to the fires by blaming them on "gross mismanagement" of forests in a tweet on Saturday.
Michael Baldwin, a CalFire captain from Mendocino County, said Trump's comments that blamed poor forest management for the blaze was "ill-informed" and came at the wrong time.
A small dog sits on top of a Camp Fire evacuee's personal property in a car at a Walmart parking lot
Tents are seen pitched on Friday in a field next to a Walmart parking lot where Camp Fire evacuees have been staying
People drop off freshly baked cookies and cupcakes to Camp Fire evacuees who are living in a Walmart parking lot
Sheriff’s office spokeswoman Miranda Bowersox said Friday that the list of people who are unaccounted for is not a real-time reflection of who is missing.
She said the office is distributing the names widely in the hope anyone on it might call in and say they’re OK.
'They might not be in the area anymore. There might be friends and family here who don’t know they left, that they went to another area,' she said.
Many refugees from the fire have taken up temporary residence with friends and family, while others have pitched tents or were camping out of their vehicles.
More than 1,100 evacuees were being housed in 14 emergency shelters set up in churches, schools and community centers around the region, American Red Cross spokeswoman Greta Gustafson said.
The disaster already ranks among the deadliest wildfires in the United States since the turn of the last century
Firefighters worked to keep flames from spreading through the Shadowbrook apartment complex as a wildfire burns through Paradise
A home burns as the Camp Fire rages through Paradise, Califofrnia on November 8
Authorities said more than 47,000 people in all remain under evacuation orders in the region.
Search teams, meanwhile, combed through charred, rubble-strewn expanses of burned-out neighborhoods looking for bodies - or anything else that might carry human DNA for identification purposes.
Meanwhile, the remains of eight more fire victims were recovered on Friday, bringing the death toll to 71, he said.
Authorities attribute the death toll partly to the speed with which flames raced through the town with little advance warning, driven by howling winds and fueled by drought-desiccated scrub and trees.
The Butte County disaster coincided with a flurry of smaller blazes in southern California, including the Woolsey Fire.
Authorities attribute the death toll partly to the speed with which flames raced through the town with little advance warning, driven by howling winds and fueled by drought-desiccated scrub and trees.
The Butte County disaster coincided with a flurry of smaller blazes in southern California, including the Woolsey Fire.
The Woolsey fire has been linked with three fatalities and has destroyed at least 500 structures in the mountains and foothills near the Malibu coast west of Los Angeles.
The latest blazes have capped a two deadly wildfire seasons in California that scientists largely attribute to prolonged drought they say is symptomatic of climate change.
The cause of the fires are under investigation. But two electric utilities have said they sustained equipment problems close to the origins of the blazes around the time they were reported.
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