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LOS ANGELES | Some California evacuation orders could be lifted next week

LOS ANGELES | Some California evacuation orders could be lifted next week

LOS ANGELES — Some evacuation orders could be lifted early next week for areas devastated by a Northern California wildfire, and residents should be prepared to find bones or bone fragments as they sift through their properties, an official said Wednesday.

The death toll from the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century was steady at 88 people, and 196 are on a list of those unaccounted for,…

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PARADISE, Calif. | Rain helps mostly douse California fire but slows searchers

PARADISE, Calif. | Rain helps mostly douse California fire but slows searchers

PARADISE, Calif. — A deadly wildfire is nearly contained after several days of rain in Northern California, but searchers are still completing the meticulous task of combing through now-muddy ash and debris for signs of human remains.

Crews planned to resume the grim task Saturday after working on-and-off the day before amid a downpour in the devastated town of Paradise. Some are now looking…

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CHICO, Calif. | The Latest: Crews make progress with N. California wildfire

CHICO, Calif. | The Latest: Crews make progress with N. California wildfire

CHICO, Calif. — The Latest on California‘s wildfires (all times local):

9 a.m. Fire officials say firefighters have gained ground against a Northern California wildfire that killed at least 79 people.

The California The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Tuesday that the fire is now 70 percent contained.

That’s up from 66 percent Monday morning. The blaze’s size remained…

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CHICO, Calif | Death toll rises to 76 in California fire with winds ahead

CHICO, Calif | Death toll rises to 76 in California fire with winds ahead

CHICO, Calif. — Northern California crews battling the country’s deadliest wildfire in a century were bracing for strong winds, with gusts up to 50 miles per hour, creating the potential to erode gains they have made in containing a disaster that has killed at least 76 and leveled a town.

Even as hundreds of searchers sift through the rubble in the town of Paradise looking for the dead, nearly…

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CHICO, Calif  | The Latest: Authorities find 8 bodies, deaths rise to 71

CHICO, Calif  | The Latest: Authorities find 8 bodies, deaths rise to 71

CHICO, Calif.  — The Latest on California’s wildfires (all times local):

7:31 p.m.

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea says they found 8 more bodies Friday from a deadly Northern California wildfire that is only half contained.

The death toll from the deadliest wildfire in the country in at least a century is 71.

7:25 p.m.

Northern California authorities say more than 1,000 people are now on a…

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CHICO, Calif. | The Latest: California governor to join Trump on visit

CHICO, Calif. | The Latest: California governor to join Trump on visit

CHICO, Calif. — The Latest on California’s wildfires (all times local):

3:25 p.m.

California’s outgoing and incoming governors say they’ll join President Donald Trump when he visits wildfire devastation in the state.

Gov. Jerry Brown and Governor-elect Gavin Newsom said Friday that they welcome the president’s visit and that “now is a time to pull together for the people of California.” The two…

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PARADISE, Calif | The Latest: Residents sue utility over California wildfire

PARADISE, Calif | The Latest: Residents sue utility over California wildfire

PARADISE, Calif.  — The Latest on wildfires in California (all times local):

5:45 p.m.

Victims of California’s most destructive wildfire have filed a lawsuit accusing Pacific Gas & Electric Co. of causing the massive blaze.

The suit filed Tuesday in state court in California accuses the utility of failing to maintain its infrastructure and properly inspect and manage its power transmission lines.

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PARADISE, Calif. | Dogs and portable morgues: Search intensifies in fire zone

PARADISE, Calif. | Dogs and portable morgues: Search intensifies in fire zone

PARADISE, Calif. — Authorities moved to set up a rapid DNA-analysis system and bring in cadaver dogs, mobile morgues and more search teams in an intensified effort to find and identify victims of the deadliest wildfire in California history, an inferno that killed at least 42 people.

Five days after flames all but obliterated the Northern California town of Paradise, population 27,000, officials…

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