(UTV|COLOMBO) – As the remains of eight more victims were found on Wednesday, the toll in California’s deadliest wildfire has reached 56. Over 100 other people are still unaccounted for.
The fire that started six days ago has displaced 52,000 people and incinerated the town of Paradise. Officials said that 1,385 people were being housed in shelters. Authorities said the blaze has grown in size to 215 square miles and destroyed nearly 9,000 homes.
The dead have been found in burned-out cars, in the smouldering ruins of their homes, or next to their vehicles, apparently overcome by smoke and flames before they could jump in behind the wheel and escape.
In some cases, there were only charred fragments of bone, so small that coroner’s investigators used a wire basket to sift and sort them. The search for bodies was continuing.
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