The fire has destroyed 18 homes since it started and authorities found the burned body of 67-year-old Robert Bresnick on Saturday in a vehicle and said he had refused to be evacuated.
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Cunnings said he was the kind of person who would offer to put snow chains on a neighbor’s vehicle or fix an engine that needed repair.
A Cal Fire firefighter walks down a trail on Garzas Trail in the Santa Lucia Preserve above Carmel Valley, Calif., Thursday, July 28, 2016.
“Even since he was a boy, he just really wanted to help people”, she said, crying.
Authorities identified the operator killed Tuesday as 35-year-old Robert Reagan of Fresno County.
The north of Big Sur has burned 29,877 acres and remains just 15 percent contained while firefighters in Southern California have managed to get the Sand Fire, north of Los Angeles, mostly under control, said California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Reagan, 35, has a wife and two young children and a GoFundMe account has already raised nearly $24,000 to help his family.
Sgt. Kathy Palazzolo said Thursday that one of the seven people in the group told a deputy they were backcountry hikers caught in the fire, but the deputy reported that they were not dressed as hikers.
It’s illegal to grow marijuana in California except for medicinal purposes, but pot grows are common throughout coastal Monterey County, south of San Francisco.
The wildfire in Northern California has grown to scorch almost 30,000 acres, destroy 51 structures and killed one person, fire officials said Thursday.
Oliver was killed July 26 during overnight operations to contain the fire. Crews stopped the spread of that almost 60-square-mile wildfire, which destroyed 18 homes in mountains and canyons outside Los Angeles.
About 2,000 structures surrounding the wildfire are in danger, according to authorities, and the fire has also damaged power lines and interrupted electrical service.
The fire in rugged wilderness between the northern edge of Los Angeles and the suburban city of Santa Clarita grew slightly to almost 60 square miles (154 square kilometers).
A stretch of the Metrolink commuter rail closed because of the fire was running again and some 20,000 people evacuated over the weekend returned home. Firefighters are aided by light winds but will contend with another day of triple-digit temperatures.
Firefighters got a break early Wednesday from cooler temperatures and increased humidity.
The fire command says the huge blaze in northern Los Angeles County is now 40 percent surrounded.
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Another 10 outbuildings were gutted by the blaze that has charred 42 square miles (108 sq. kilometers) of dry brush. It burned almost 11 square miles (28 square kilometers) and forced the evacuations of 900 people, but no homes had burned by Tuesday, authorities said.
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