More 40 dead, more 200 missing: California continues to burn

Rescuers found the bodies of 42 people who died as a result of a strong forest fire that almost completely destroyed the city of Paradise in northern California. The number of victims was the highest in state history, authorities said on Monday.

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Five more people who died in the fire were identified. Among them were three men and two women, writes Daily Mail.

Ernest Foss, 65, from Paradise, and Fernandez, from Konkov, 48, were friends. The family paid tribute to them in social networks.

77-year-old Karl Wiley of Muglia and 70-year-old Ellen Walker in Concor also died in a deadly fire. 58-year-old Lolen Rios was also identified after her death in Paradise.

The fire has already been named the most devastating in the history of California in terms of material damage. Flames raging on Thursday destroyed more 7.100 homes and other objects, writes Reuters.

Butte County Sheriff Corey Honea said that another approximately 228 people are missing.

Authorities believe that the number of victims may increase.

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Most of the destruction and casualties occurred in Paradise and its surroundings, where a fire on Thursday evening, just a few hours after the start, destroyed almost all the buildings.

The number of victims killed in a single fire in California was the highest in history, significantly exceeding the record 1993 of the year, when a fire in Los Angeles claimed 29 lives, Honea said.

Authorities reported that two more people died at the weekend as a result of another fire that destroyed 435 facilities and made about 200.000 people in the mountains and foothills off the coast of Malibu west of Los Angeles.

US President Donald Trump, who was criticized over the weekend for calling “disgustingly poor management” of forest land, approved the request of California Governor Jerry Brown to recognize the situation in the state as a natural disaster. This measure will accelerate access to federal assistance for fire-affected areas.

Recall that forest fires in California reached the bohemian areas of the state, where the estates of many movie actors and singers are located. TV series star and singer Miley Cyrus, the famous Gerard Butler - starring 300 Spartans, and Canadian singer Neil Young - this is not a complete list of stars, lost its luxury housing.

A talented 10-year-old violinist from Ukraine Carolina Protsenko, who lives in California and is known both in the US and outside the country, along with her mother almost turned out in a fiery trap on the road open for emergency evacuation of residents of dangerous areas of the state covered by forest fires. A woman with a child had to drive through the road around which houses and forests were burning.

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