The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department used cadaver dogs to search the burn area as a precaution.
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Forty-eight structures have been destroyed and seven more damaged by the blaze, according to Cal Fire officials.
Dillon added that there is no active fire along the perimeters.
Johanna Santore, 63, her husband and their 10-year-old granddaughter were among the last permitted to return home, though they already knew they didn’t have much to get back to.
Santore said, that Saturday evening when everyone was asleep, she went out and cried thinking of the family’s lost pets and mementoes, the Santores were out running task when the fire broke out and were unable to return to save anything.
Even if those residents had heeded the call to leave, however, firefighters would have dropped the fire retardant and water in the same places, sent fire engines to protect homes and buildings in the same places, and sent hand crews to the same front lines, Opliger said.
“I’m hoping someone stuck around and is hiding someplace”, Santore said.
Those winds could prove detrimental to the firefighting effort and push the fire beyond its 35 percent containment level.
Original story: The Chimney Fire grew by almost 4,000 acres Monday night, burning dry brush and trees along steep terrain to the northeast. It remained closed Sunday.
Operating from a mobile command center just south of the 58-square-mile blaze, Horton leads a team of 15 investigators, technicians, hazardous materials experts and others responsible for determining the extent and nature of the damages.
State Parks officials said they would monitor conditions on a daily basis to determine when the castle, located nearly due west of the fire, might reopen.
A wildfire in central California that destroyed 47 structures and forced the closure of the famed Hearst Castle has chased more people from their homes.
Hearst Castle, the palatial ocean-view estate popular among tourists, remained closed because of its proximity to the flames, but officials say they are increasingly confident it will be spared.
A 60-space campground in Grand Teton also was evacuated.
In the southern Sierra Nevada, another fire is exploding in Sequoia National Forest which forced the evacuation of several tiny hamlets.
The destructive Blue Cut Fire, which destroyed more than 100 homes and some 37,000 acres, is 100 percent contained, fire authorities said Tuesday.
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Saturday that the blaze in the working-class community of Lower Lake was 80 percent contained after destroying at least 300 structures, including 189 homes and eight businesses.
“We’re short-staffed, we’re stretched thin, we’re in these epidemic fire conditions”, said Patrick Walker, 40, a Cal Fire captain in San Diego County.
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“It was about 33% contained on Friday, but that’s when the winds picked up and really pushed this fire, advancing it to the north” and forcing new evacuations over the weekend, Berlant said on Periscope.
