![]() Gavin Newsom, who is the state's acting governor while Gov. "The rest of the California National Guard is on alert and prepared to deploy throughout the state if necessary." "We also have 100 military police officers that are heading to Butte County to assist the Sheriff's Department with evacuations and securing the evacuated area," Baldwin said. Emergency officials have requested additional help from neighboring states.ĭavid Baldwin, adjutant general for the California National Guard, said Friday that 185 troops are helping battle the Camp Fire. The message I want to get out is: If you can evacuate, you need to evacuate."įirefighters from Alameda and Marin counties, the cities of Oakland, Napa, Hayward, Berkeley, Piedmont and Fremont, and other Bay Area departments have been sent to Butte County to battle the conflagration. "We're working very hard to get people out. "It's a very dangerous and very serious situation," Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said. "It was just a wall of fire on each side of us, and we could hardly see the road in front of us," Bass said. We were driving through fire on each side of the road," said police Officer Mark Bass, who lives in Paradise, where harrowing tales of escape and heroic rescues emerged after the entire community of 27,000 was ordered to evacuate.īass helped his family make it to safety and then returned to the fire to help rescue several disabled residents, including a man trying to carry his bedridden wife to safety. Might be out on the street with two cats. "And what can we afford? We can't stay in a hotel the whole time. "I don't know what kind of home we're gonna have," Bolin told KQED. She's also living on disability, so the thought of losing her home, which seemed likely based on its location, was a scary thought. "We texted everybody - said fire's everywhere, everybody get out."Ĭaroline Bolin, a resident of Paradise, said she's living in subsidized, reduced-rate apartments for people on Section 8. "We tried to go south on Skyway, and we were engulfed in flames, both sides of the road," Peltola told KQED. She packed up her family's "fire box," gathered almost all of their cats and got in the car. Sandra Peltola, a resident of Magalia, said she woke up early in the morning Thursday and noticed that the sky was totally black due to smoke from the rapidly growing blaze. More than 2,300 personnel are fighting the blaze. The Camp Fire, which was first reported Thursday about 6:30 a.m., has grown to about 100,000 acres and is 20 percent contained, according to Cal Fire. The agency also said three firefighters have been injured. It's that kind of devastation," said Cal Fire Capt. "Pretty much the community of Paradise is destroyed. Friday night, 52,000 people had been evacuated and 6,713 buildings had been destroyed, including over 6,400 homes, according to Cal Fire. ![]() ![]() The blaze, about 180 highway miles northeast of San Francisco, has nearly quadrupled in size since Thursday night. The sheriff's office has requested those who left the area safely to register on the Red Cross Safe and Well site. I know that we’ve continued to get those calls and we continue to work on them.”Īs of Friday night, that had been winnowed down to just 35 people unaccounted for. Late last night we had whittled that list down to about 400. friends and family that they could not make contact with," Honea said. “Last night we had about 600 calls from people requesting that we do welfare checks on individuals. Keep up to date on evacuation orders, emergency shelter locations, missing persons and more.īutte County Sheriff Kory Honea said earlier in an interview with KQED he had heard many reports of people not being able to make contact with friends and family members, and said his department was also trying to find those individuals. What You Need to Know: Butte County's Camp Fire None of the victims have been identified.Īdditionally, there have been three firefighters injured. Four of the victims appeared to have been trapped in their vehicles as they tried to escape the blaze, with one victim found just outside the vehicle. The Butte County Sheriff's Office, at a press conference Friday evening, reported that nine people have been confirmed dead in the Camp Fire, which devastated the town of Paradise. For the latest information on the Camp Fire, please click here. Editor's Note: This post is no longer being updated.
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