Camp: 23 Confirmed Dead, Fire At 164 Square Miles And Some Seriously Pissed-Off Firefighters
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“So we’re expecting big winds tonight,” Todd Horton, of Cal Fire’s Tehama-Glenn Unit, told KPIX 5. “We’re trying to get ahead of it, and we’re going to put everything out that we can (before they arrive).”
Horton and the thousands of other firefighters along the line were able to take advantage of calming winds to slow the advance of the fire on Saturday. It grew by only 5,000 acres to 105,000 acres — 164 square miles, twice the size of Oakland — during the day. Clearing skies over some the fire-stricken area also allowed air tankers to safely dump loads of much needed fire retardant. Containment improved to 20 percent by Saturday night.
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Away from the fire lines, Saturday was a day filled with searching, recovery and elevated anxiety over the fate of those missing along the destructive path the firestorm has left in communities reduced to debris and wreckage from Paradise to Concow.
The death toll soared to 23 after search crews recovered 14 more remains from burned out cars and homes. 10 additional victims were found in Paradise, according to the Butte County Sheriff, seven in burned out homes and three overwhelmed as they attempted to flee on foot.
The Camp Fire’s deadly wall of flames also overwhelmed the small community of Concow — population 700 — where search teams found two victims inside burned out cars and another two inside a burned out home. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said in some cases investigators have only been able to recover bones and bone fragments. DNA would be used to positively identify the remains. He asked family members of the missing to submit DNA samples that could be compared with remains that are recovered.
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https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/11/11/oroville-residents-camp-fire-claims-23-lives-search-wildfire/
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