The number of names on the missing person’s list for Northern California’s Camp fire grew to 1,011 Friday night, nearly doubling the number reported Thursday, though fire officials warned that the list may include duplicate names.

Search-and-rescue officials also discovered eight more bodies in the Camp fire’s aftermath, bringing the death total to 71. Three bodies have been recovered in the Woosley fire in Southern California, making the state’s death toll now 74.

“I want you to understand that this is a dynamic list. It will fluctuate both up and down every day,” Butte County Sheriff-Coroner Kory L. Honea said of the missing person’s list Friday night.

Paradise reeling: The death toll from the #CampFire rises to 71 and the number of people missing soars over 1000. The wildfire has scorched 146,000 acres, destroyed over 15,000 structures and is now 50% contained. The search for the missing continues. https://t.co/VOdZlYY6uJ pic.twitter.com/eNuUzk60Mz — Marcus Yam 火 (@yamphoto) November 17, 2018

Honea said the number of people grew significantly Friday because law enforcement now has more resources to address missing person reports, including a newly established call center and more time to review reports that were emailed to law enforcement.

Honea also noted that the list may include misspelled names and names of people who are not actually missing.

“In the initial hours of this extraordinarily chaotic event, as people were calling in, talking about people that they couldn’t find ... that information was being entered in as rapidly as possible by public safety dispatchers,” he said.

The Camp fire is considered the most deadly and destructive wildfire in the state of California. Investigators continue to scour the town of Paradise and the surrounding areas, searching for additional remains and assessing the damage.

I keep thinking about a conversation I had with a veteran firefighter about the fatalities on the #CampFire. So many people assumed it wouldn't be as bad as it was and refused to evacuate. When he got back to their homes, they were on fire. — Lizzie Johnson (@lizziejohnsonnn) November 17, 2018

“I can’t let perfection get in the way of progress,” Honea told reporters. “It’s important for us to get the information out so that we can get started on identifying these unaccounted individuals.”

Since last week, the Camp fire has spread to an estimated 146,000 acres, devastating the town of Paradise and forcing 52,000 people to flee their homes. Officials said the blaze was 50 percent contained by Friday.

The Woolsey fire in Southern California has burned more than 98,000 acres, forcing thousands to evacuate Malibu and surrounding areas. As of Friday, the Woolsey fire was 67 percent contained.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit California to meet with people impacted by the fires and assess the damage on Saturday. The White House has not released details on which locations Trump will visit. </s> Terrible news from the region just north of Sacramento California where the devastating ‘Camp Fire’ impacted the town of Paradise. Late Wednesday evening search and recovery workers located another eight sets of human remains bringing the total death toll from this single fire event to 56. The death toll is anticipated to climb…

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and FEMA Director Brock Long visited the devastated area today to thank firefighters and rescue workers. The search for bodies is gruesome as some human remains are found inside burned structures and others outside.

CALIFORNIA – 9 p.m. ET: As of Wednesday night, eight more human remains have been found, bringing the death toll to 56. Six of them were found inside structures and two were found outside. Statewide, the death toll is 59 (including three from the Woolsey Fire). There have been more than 10,000 structures destroyed by the Camp Fire, including homes. The total amount of evacuated residents remains at 52,000 people. The Camp Fire containment remains at 35 percent. Some 138,000 acres have been scorched.

Authorities searching through the blackened aftermath of California’s deadliest wildfire Wednesday released the names of some 130 people who are unaccounted, including many in their 80s and 90s, and dozens more could still be unaccounted for. As the names of the missing were made public, additional crews joined the search. “We want to be able to cover as much ground as quickly as we possibly can,” Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said. “This is a very difficult task.” A sheriff’s department spokeswoman, Megan McMann, acknowledged that the list of the missing was incomplete. She said detectives were concerned about being overwhelmed with calls from relatives if the entire list were released. (read more) </s> CHICO (KRON) - The Butte County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the death toll in the Camp Fire is now at 63 and 631 people are unaccounted for.

Authorities say 53 of those victims have been tentatively identified, but their names aren't being released to the public just yet.

There are 631 people reported missing but deputies say some of those people could be in shelters.

The blaze has burned 141,000 acres and has the deadliest wildfire in California history.

A grand total of 11,862 structures were destroyed in the Camp Fire and 9,700 of those were homes.

Fire investigators discovered a possible second origin for the start of the Camp Fire but the blaze remains under investigation.

WHAT OTHERS ARE CLICKING ON: </s> SACRAMENTO, California - Authorities searching through the blackened aftermath of California's deadliest wildfire Wednesday released the names of some 130 people who are unaccounted, including many in their 80s and 90s, and dozens more could still be unaccounted for. Officials in Northern California said Tuesday that search crews had found six more bodies, bringing the death toll from the so-called Camp Fire to 56 and the statewide total to 59. </s> Click here if you are having trouble viewing the slideshow on a mobile device.

CHICO — As people driven homeless by the Camp Fire were facing the specter of having to move out of a refugee encampment this weekend, authorities announced Friday evening that the number of people who perished in the state’s deadliest fire has now reached 71 and those still unaccounted for have surpassed 1,000.

That’s more than double the number from the second-deadliest wildfire in California history — the 1933 Griffith Park fire in Los Angeles — and could soon be triple the 25 people who died in the Oakland Hills firestorm in 1991.

Of the eight additional victims revealed Friday, seven were found in Paradise inside structures and one in Magalia, also inside a structure. Authorities also have released the names of two more fire victims — bringing the total number of officially identified victims to five — Paula Dodge, 70, and Randall Dodge, 68, both Paradise residents.

Although not reported by authorities, a Sacramento man told this news organization that he was notified Friday that the likely remains of his mother, Dorothy Lee Herrera, 90, and her husband of more than three decades, Louis Herrera, 86, were found in their home on Clear View Drive in Paradise.

Arthur Lee said he last heard from his mother the morning of the fire, leaving a voice message saying there was a fire and she needed to evacuate. His family searched every shelter and hospital for days.

“I was wondering if someone else would have picked them up,” Lee said from his Sacramento home Friday evening. “I was kind of hoping, but I’m assuming the fire moved so fast, they didn’t get a chance to get out.”

He submitted a DNA sample in Sacramento on Friday afternoon to help confirm the identification.

The official number of unaccounted for people announced Friday was 1,011, an increase of 380 from Thursday, even after officials cleared 329 people from their missing-persons rolls. Sheriff Kory Honea said the list continues to be culled from calls, emails and other data mined from callers in the initial hours of the fire and may contain duplicate entries.

“It’s easy for them to lose contact with each other,” Honea said, referring to people scattered across the state reporting their friends and relatives missing. “That adds to the difficulty.”

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Along the fire lines, the historically destructive blaze has burned 146,000 acres and destroyed 9,700 homes and 2,563 other structures, according to Cal Fire. On a hopeful note, half of the fire is now contained.

Meanwhile, this news organization’s review of firefighter radio transmissions indicates a possible “second start” of the Camp Fire — currently being investigated by Cal Fire — was caught on a firewatch camera near the Concow reservoir, about a half-hour after the first flames were reported about five miles northeast near Poe Dam and Pulga.

To date, 47,200 people remain evacuated, and 1,164 were staying in evacuation and emergency shelters, authorities said.

Meanwhile, a tent city that served as a refuge for some of the most impoverished people left homeless by the Camp Fire likely will disappear by the end of the weekend, its occupants pushed to move to evacuation shelters and other living spaces for their longer-term health and safety as colder weather sets in and rain looms.

“It’s best for these people to get into a shelter for the best care,” said Rob Busick, one of the volunteer organizers of the encampment that sprang up in and beside the parking lot of Walmart on Forest Avenue. “This was always meant to be a short-term solution to a long-term problem.”

Busick noted next week’s forecast of colder weather and then rain had the Walmart encampment’s organizers worried that potential flooding could endanger people staying in more than 100 tents in a field abutting the asphalt lot.

“With the cold, rain and air quality, it’s not safe for them anymore,” he said. “We want to help them comfortably transition into the next place.”

News of the impending draw-down of the tent city, which hosted as many as 500 people at its peak since the Nov. 8 inferno and grew to include a distribution center for donated clothing and a food truck, as well as for public health and relocation assistance, was met with dismay by many people still staying there.

A sign erected at the encampment notifying people it was to be closed provoked “a near riot” Thursday night, said organizer Guido Barbero. Tensions also were heightened by confusion about who decided the camp should close.

Friday, next to the retail giant’s parking lot, some 125 tents were scattered across a field of beaten-down autumn-gold grass. In a circle of six tents that its denizens dubbed “Wally Hood” in tribute to the property owner, about 10 refugees from the fire-ravaged hills created a supportive new community and they did not want to leave, said Tammy Mezera, 49, formerly of Magalia.

Mezera was sitting with five friends in collapsible chairs inside the circle of tents, a large plastic bin for a table, and a metal night-time cage for Nel, the friendly brindle pit bull, serving as a kitchen counter.

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“Everybody’s been through a traumatic experience,” Mezera said. “We have a bond here, just like people in war, in the foxhole.”

News that she and her small band of evacuees and others in the camp will be uprooted “is creating more psychological hardship for people,” Mezera said. The camp’s dwellers were told that on Sunday the portable toilets would be removed and meals stopped.

“It’s too soon,” she said.

Deja German, staying with a friend in a large tent a stone’s throw from Wally Hood, criticized the effort to relocate evacuees. She said she didn’t know where they were supposed to go.

“Trying to find answers is pretty much impossible,” said German, 38, who got a ride out of Magalia the day the fire started.

A number of people staying in vehicles at the edge of the Walmart lot also were urged to leave, said Debi Crane, a retired florist evacuated with her two sisters, who turned a rented U-Haul truck into a parked living space.

Spending time at the camp with others traumatized by fire and loss was “uplifting,” said Crane, 62.

Many campers acknowledged the tent city was not entirely safe and reported seeing several fights and drug dealing, as well as homeless people not displaced by the fire who had started to move in for the free food and clothing.

Closure of the camp, organizer Busick said, was a collective decision by emergency officials, local government representatives and the handful of organizers — soccer friends in Chico — who started the camp. He lauded Walmart for its compassion and patience. “Walmart has been fantastic. They could have shut this down from day one,” he said.

How you can help victims of the Camp Fire in Butte County

Donated gas cards and other resources are being made available to help the campers get to official evacuation shelters and more stable living situations. Bidwell Jr. High School on North Avenue in Chico hosts a county shelter still accepting people, as others have filled.

Walmart spokeswoman Tiffany Wilson said although the company was happy it could provide a refuge, “we understand that our parking lots are not a viable long-term housing solution and are working closely with the American Red Cross, the county and local organizations to best preserve the health and safety of those impacted by the Camp Fire.”

For Tina Duarte, her daughter and two granddaughters, formerly of Paradise, the camp provided a refuge from disease outbreaks such as the orovirus that hit a Chico church shelter. Her youngest granddaughter is only three weeks old, she said.

“I lost my house. I’m not going to lose my granddaughter,” said Duarte, 45. “We’re better off in a tent.”

But on Friday afternoon, they accepted a good Samaritan’s offer to borrow a 40-foot trailer, and they were packing up to go.

Staff writers Jason Green and Julia Prodis Sulek contributed to this report.

Anyone seeking information about people missing in the wake of the Camp Fire or who wants to report someone missing or accounted for can view the latest list from the Butte County Sheriff’s Office at buttecounty.net/sheriffcoroner and call one of the following three hotlines: 530-538-6570, 530-538-7544, 530-538-7671.

Information about evacuation shelters for people displaced by the Camp Fire can be found at the Butte County website at buttecounty.net. </s> Click here if you are having trouble viewing the slideshow on a mobile device.

CHICO — As people driven homeless by the Camp Fire were facing the specter of having to move out of a refugee encampment this weekend, authorities announced Friday evening that the number of people who perished in the state’s deadliest fire has now reached 71 and those still unaccounted for have surpassed 1,000.

That’s more than double the number from the second-deadliest wildfire in California history — the 1933 Griffith Park fire in Los Angeles — and could soon be triple the 25 people who died in the Oakland Hills firestorm in 1991.

Of the eight additional victims revealed Friday, seven were found in Paradise inside structures and one in Magalia, also inside a structure. Authorities also have released the names of two more fire victims — bringing the total number of officially identified victims to five — Paula Dodge, 70, and Randall Dodge, 68, both Paradise residents.

Although not reported by authorities, a Sacramento man told this news organization that he was notified Friday that the likely remains of his mother, Dorothy Lee Herrera, 90, and her husband of more than three decades, Louis Herrera, 86, were found in their home on Clear View Drive in Paradise.

Arthur Lee said he last heard from his mother the morning of the fire, leaving a voice message saying there was a fire and she needed to evacuate. His family searched every shelter and hospital for days.

“I was wondering if someone else would have picked them up,” Lee said from his Sacramento home Friday evening. “I was kind of hoping, but I’m assuming the fire moved so fast, they didn’t get a chance to get out.”

He submitted a DNA sample in Sacramento on Friday afternoon to help confirm the identification.

The official number of unaccounted for people announced Friday was 1,011, an increase of 380 from Thursday, even after officials cleared 329 people from their missing-persons rolls. Sheriff Kory Honea said the list continues to be culled from calls, emails and other data mined from callers in the initial hours of the fire and may contain duplicate entries.

“It’s easy for them to lose contact with each other,” Honea said, referring to people scattered across the state reporting their friends and relatives missing. “That adds to the difficulty.”

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Along the fire lines, the historically destructive blaze has burned 146,000 acres and destroyed 9,700 homes and 2,563 other structures, according to Cal Fire. On a hopeful note, half of the fire is now contained.

Meanwhile, this news organization’s review of firefighter radio transmissions indicates a possible “second start” of the Camp Fire — currently being investigated by Cal Fire — was caught on a firewatch camera near the Concow reservoir, about a half-hour after the first flames were reported about five miles northeast near Poe Dam and Pulga.

To date, 47,200 people remain evacuated, and 1,164 were staying in evacuation and emergency shelters, authorities said.

Meanwhile, a tent city that served as a refuge for some of the most impoverished people left homeless by the Camp Fire likely will disappear by the end of the weekend, its occupants pushed to move to evacuation shelters and other living spaces for their longer-term health and safety as colder weather sets in and rain looms.

“It’s best for these people to get into a shelter for the best care,” said Rob Busick, one of the volunteer organizers of the encampment that sprang up in and beside the parking lot of Walmart on Forest Avenue. “This was always meant to be a short-term solution to a long-term problem.”

Busick noted next week’s forecast of colder weather and then rain had the Walmart encampment’s organizers worried that potential flooding could endanger people staying in more than 100 tents in a field abutting the asphalt lot.

“With the cold, rain and air quality, it’s not safe for them anymore,” he said. “We want to help them comfortably transition into the next place.”

News of the impending draw-down of the tent city, which hosted as many as 500 people at its peak since the Nov. 8 inferno and grew to include a distribution center for donated clothing and a food truck, as well as for public health and relocation assistance, was met with dismay by many people still staying there.

A sign erected at the encampment notifying people it was to be closed provoked “a near riot” Thursday night, said organizer Guido Barbero. Tensions also were heightened by confusion about who decided the camp should close.

Friday, next to the retail giant’s parking lot, some 125 tents were scattered across a field of beaten-down autumn-gold grass. In a circle of six tents that its denizens dubbed “Wally Hood” in tribute to the property owner, about 10 refugees from the fire-ravaged hills created a supportive new community and they did not want to leave, said Tammy Mezera, 49, formerly of Magalia.

Mezera was sitting with five friends in collapsible chairs inside the circle of tents, a large plastic bin for a table, and a metal night-time cage for Nel, the friendly brindle pit bull, serving as a kitchen counter.

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“Everybody’s been through a traumatic experience,” Mezera said. “We have a bond here, just like people in war, in the foxhole.”

News that she and her small band of evacuees and others in the camp will be uprooted “is creating more psychological hardship for people,” Mezera said. The camp’s dwellers were told that on Sunday the portable toilets would be removed and meals stopped.

“It’s too soon,” she said.

Deja German, staying with a friend in a large tent a stone’s throw from Wally Hood, criticized the effort to relocate evacuees. She said she didn’t know where they were supposed to go.

“Trying to find answers is pretty much impossible,” said German, 38, who got a ride out of Magalia the day the fire started.

A number of people staying in vehicles at the edge of the Walmart lot also were urged to leave, said Debi Crane, a retired florist evacuated with her two sisters, who turned a rented U-Haul truck into a parked living space.

Spending time at the camp with others traumatized by fire and loss was “uplifting,” said Crane, 62.

Many campers acknowledged the tent city was not entirely safe and reported seeing several fights and drug dealing, as well as homeless people not displaced by the fire who had started to move in for the free food and clothing.

Closure of the camp, organizer Busick said, was a collective decision by emergency officials, local government representatives and the handful of organizers — soccer friends in Chico — who started the camp. He lauded Walmart for its compassion and patience. “Walmart has been fantastic. They could have shut this down from day one,” he said.

How you can help victims of the Camp Fire in Butte County

Donated gas cards and other resources are being made available to help the campers get to official evacuation shelters and more stable living situations. Bidwell Jr. High School on North Avenue in Chico hosts a county shelter still accepting people, as others have filled.

Walmart spokeswoman Tiffany Wilson said although the company was happy it could provide a refuge, “we understand that our parking lots are not a viable long-term housing solution and are working closely with the American Red Cross, the county and local organizations to best preserve the health and safety of those impacted by the Camp Fire.”

For Tina Duarte, her daughter and two granddaughters, formerly of Paradise, the camp provided a refuge from disease outbreaks such as the norovirus that hit a Chico church shelter. Her youngest granddaughter is only three weeks old, she said.

“I lost my house. I’m not going to lose my granddaughter,” said Duarte, 45. “We’re better off in a tent.”

But on Friday afternoon, they accepted a good Samaritan’s offer to borrow a 40-foot trailer, and they were packing up to go.

Staff writers Jason Green and Julia Prodis Sulek contributed to this report.

Anyone seeking information about people missing in the wake of the Camp Fire or who wants to report someone missing or accounted for can view the latest list from the Butte County Sheriff’s Office at buttecounty.net/sheriffcoroner and call one of the following three hotlines: 530-538-6570, 530-538-7544, 530-538-7671.

Information about evacuation shelters for people displaced by the Camp Fire can be found at the Butte County website at buttecounty.net. </s> PARADISE (CBS SF) — The Butte County Sheriff announced Monday night that the death toll from the Camp Fire has risen to 42 after crews confirmed an additional 13 lives lost during their search for the missing.

The announcement came during regional officials’ 6 p.m. update on the Camp Fire.

Officials also said that the fire had grown to 117,000 acres with containment at 30 percent. The total number of single-family residences that were destroyed in the fire rose to 6,453 structures with 36 homes damaged.

Additionally, fire officials determined that 74 multiple residence buildings were destroyed with 11 of those types of structures damaged.

The total number of structures destroyed by the Camp Fire rose to 7,177.

A total of 52,000 residents have been evacuated due to the fire. Currently there are over 13,000 people being housed in shelters.

Earlier Monday, search teams returned to the historic devastation left by the wildfire that ripped through the communities of Paradise, Concow, Magalia and other smaller clusters of homes, incinerating everything in its fiery path.

Among those hoping and praying for word that their loved ones had been found safe was Ted Woods.

“Two of my friends are missing,” Woods said with his voice choking with emotion. “One out of Magalia and one out of Paradise. And I’m hoping it ain’t one of the body counts.”

Pam Mosher is searching for her daughter and son-in-law.

“It gets worse every day,” Mosher said as she held of photos of his missing relatives. “You try to tell yourself it’s going to be okay, you really don’t feel that way.”

Jake Hancock, who is a District Attorney Investigator in Butte County, is a member of a search team shifting through the rubble of burned down homes in Paradise, looking for human remains.

“We’re just going door to door, house to house,” he told KPIX 5. “Looking for families loved ones that are missing.”

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea put the number of missing at 228. The remains of 29 victims have been recovered, 25 of those in the town of Paradise.

The human toll has equaled the highest number of deaths in a single wildfire in California history matching the grim toll of the 1933 Griffith Park fire in Los Angeles.
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Ten search teams were working in Paradise — a town of 27,000 — and in surrounding communities in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Authorities have called in a DNA lab and teams of anthropologists to help identify victims and asked families of those missing for DNA samples.

While President Donald Trump has blamed state forestry policies for the tragedy, outgoing California Gov. Jerry Brown told reporters Sunday that global climate change was the culprit.

“We don’t know the cause of this fire, and the town of Paradise certainly had a lot of preparation, but we’re dealing with existential conditions that, once they take off, certain amount of dryness in the vegetation, in the soil, in the air, and the winds get up 50-60 miles an hour — this is what happens,” Brown said.

“But, managing all the forest in every way we can does not stop climate change, and those who deny that are definitely contributing to the tragedies that we’re now witnessing, and will continue to witness in the coming years.”

Amid the ruins of Paradise on Sunday, there was a small bit of joy to celebrate. A member of Hancock’s search team found a scared and slightly singed family cat alive.

“I don’t usually get to recovery anything that’s alive,” said Vicky Vincent with the Shasta County Coroner’s Office. “It’s nice to be able to save something.”

And there were several joyful reunions on Sunday including John Warner, who had pleaded for any word of his grandparents during a TV interview.

“(I) Just hope that somebody is watching that’s seen them,” he asked. Moments later, his phone range, his grandfather had made it out of the deadly flames and was safe in a shelter.

A short time later he stood with his grandfather outside a Chico church that was serving as an evacuation center.

“We found you,” Warner said hugging his grandfather. “The lady that worked here (called) and said — ‘I know where they are art, they are over at the church.”

The shelters — like the one in Chico — have taken in thousands of evacuees who have lost their homes. The fire has destroyed more than 6,700 structures, most of them homes, becoming the most destruction in terms of loss of residences in state history.

Shelter volunteer Tim Wall said the system is being strained to its limits. He issued a plea for help Sunday.

“We’re so thankful for how the community has come together,” Wall said. “It’s been a major blessing. But this isn’t a one-day thing. This is long-term and we have to think that way. So food is going to continue to run out, so will supplies. We keep needing that. We definitely need medical supplies and medical professionals. A lot of our elderly are on oxygen and that’s running out quickly.”

In the Bay Area, the massive plume of smoke and ash driven western by the upper level winds continued to drape a layer of unhealthy air over the region early Monday.

The air quality indexes for several cities were among the worst in the world. San Francisco and Oakland had an AQI level of 166, Concord was at 161, San Pablo 168 and Livermore 174.

Local officials have issued an air quality advisory for the region, warning residents to limit their outdoor exposure.

Meanwhile, NFL officials were monitoring the pollution levels in Santa Cara. If the AQI reaches 200, Monday night’s San Francisco 49ers-New York Giants game could be cancelled. </s> CHICO, Butte County — Search and recovery crews found the remains of eight more people, bringing the total number of victims killed in the Camp Fire to 56, fire officials said at a Wednesday night news conference.

All eight were found in Paradise — six inside structures and two outside.

Butte County Sheriff-Coroner Kory Honea said 130 people remain “unaccounted for.” He said a partial list of the missing was released earlier in the day.

Honea said 47 of the remains have been tentatively identified but not positively confirmed.

“We have been able to locate or determine that over 200 people we thought were missing or unaccounted for are not — as of tonight we have 130 people on our unaccounted for list,” Honea said.

He said he expects the list of 130 will get shorter as more people are found. Some 461 people are working to search for victims. Officials have added cadaver dogs.

Officials said the Camp Fire has destroyed a total of 10,321 buildings — 8,650 of which are single family homes. They also said they have towed 128 vehicles that were abandoned during the fire — and many were total losses as they were badly burned.

The fire grew by 3,000 acres since Wednesday morning to 138,000 acres and remained 35 percent contained.

The catastrophic Camp Fire’s growth had slowed overnight and cooler temperatures and less wind on Wednesday were helping firefighters.

The inferno is the deadliest and most destructive in state history.

More than 13,000 people evacuated from the fire are living in shelters. An outbreak of norovirus has sickened people at one shelter in Chico, according to Butte County public health officials. They could not say how many people were ill, but reported that they had been moved to an isolated area of the shelter to prevent spread of the virus. </s> BUTTE COUNTY (KRON) - Authorities announced Saturday, that 14 additional bodies were recovered in the Camp Fire bringing the death toll to 23.

The Butte County Sheriff's Office says investigators discovered 14 more sets of remains, three days after the fire broke out. Some of the victims were found in cars and in houses.

The identities of the deceased won't be released until DNA testing is complete.

The sheriff's office initially received more than 500 calls from citizens who were unable to reach their loved ones.

Authorities confirmed that 70 people who were previously reported missing had been located. Ten of those people were staying in evacuation shelters.

The department has reports of 110 people still missing, but the agency is hopeful that more of those missing people will be located and reconnected with loved ones.

So far, the wildfire has burned more than 105,000 acres across Butte County with containment still at 20-percent.

There are 4,050 fighters on the ground working diligently to save lives and put out the wildfire.

The Camp Fire has become the third-deadliest in the state history.

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The death toll in the Camp Fire rises to 56, with the statewide total at 59. Authorities release the names of 130 people who are missing, including many in their 80s and 90s, with the potential that dozens more are unaccounted for.