The Latest: Woman who died in wildfire was disabled retiree
Source: AP
MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (AP) — The latest on wildfires raging in drought-stricken California (all times local):
5:30 p.m.
The family of a disabled woman found dead in the ruins of her home destroyed by a fast-moving wildfire have identified her as 72-year-old Barbara McWilliams.
McWilliams' family says in a brief statement she was a retired teacher who had settled in the Middletown area in the last year.
Her caretaker, Jennifer Hittson, tells the Santa Rosa Press Democrat (http://bit.ly/1Kbct8I ) McWilliams had advanced multiple sclerosis and had major physical disabilities that limited her ability to walk.
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Joel Miller looks under the remains of the pickup truck of his son-in-law Adam Bailey, right, next to the still smoldering remains of Bailey's home Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, in Cobb, Calif. Bailey escaped the flames with his baby Saturday, just before flre roared through the neighborhood of about two dozen homes. Two of California's fastest-burning wildfires in decades overtook several Northern California towns, killing at least one person and destroying hundreds of homes and businesses and sending thousands of residents fleeing highways lined with buildings, guardrails and cars still in flames. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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too sad.
this is so sad......
