'I certainly understand there are people in our community who are aching to know what has come of their friends and family members,' said Honea. None of the victims have been identified yet. Another victim was found inside a residence in Paradise and three more found outside of residences, Honea said. Honea said four of the earlier victims were found in dead in vehicles torched by flames while a fifth was found dead outside of a vehicle. The town of Paradise, where all 27,000 residents were ordered to evacuate Thursday, appears to have taken the brunt of the fire damage with entire neighborhoods leveled.īutte County Sheriff Korey Honea said there were four more fatalities in addition to five dead reported earlier in the day. and has destroyed at least 6,713 structures of those 6,453 are homes, according to a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). The Camp Fire near Chico was just five percent contained as of Friday at 6 p.m.

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CHICO (CBS SF) - At least nine people are known dead in a massive wildfire in Butte County that reached 90,000 acres Friday, leaving behind catastrophic damage to communities with thousands of homes and buildings destroyed in what quickly grew into the state's most destructive fire in at least a century.

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