The flames also have damaged 41 structures and continues to be risky for 6,400 more.
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Firefighters search for victims in the rubble of a home burnt by the Valley Fire in Middletown, California, September 14, 2015. “I kept walking around asking, ‘Where is my home?’ I don’t understand why it’s not here”.
Cal Fire officials are advising residents who return to their properties to be aware of hazardous conditions and materials that may exist if a residence or outbuilding has burned.
That makes it essential that the smoldering remains of the two giant blazes be dealt with as quickly and thoroughly as possible, Mclean said.
Additionally, there are a bunch of spot fires popping of throughout the Carmel Valley hills, officials said.
“They just rain down on these homes and even though they are in a subdivision, and maybe they have good clearance around them, they have grass and landscaped trees, those embers land on the homes and catch the homes on fire”, he said.
But gains by firefighters have enabled thousands of evacuated residents to return home to check on damage to their homes, businesses and other property, including in the towns of Middletown, Twin Lakes and Rancho Sendero, the newspaper said.
The blaze was one of 10 active wildfires Sunday, majority in Lake County in Northern California.
Sheriff’s Office spokesman John Thornburg said firefighters found a auto in the burn area, put the fire out, and found the body of a male of unknown age.
The Butte Fire, east of Jackson, affecting Amador and Calaveras counties, burned 70,760 acres and was about 70 percent contained. The National Weather Service announced a heat advisory in effect from 10 a.m.to 8 p.m., and said temperatures in the areas of the fire were expected to hover from the mid-to-high 90s.
Meanwhile, crews this weekend counted more homes destroyed by another blaze 200 miles south of San Francisco.
The other wildfire, called the Butte Fire, has been burning for more than a week about 100 miles (160 km) to the east in the Sierra Nevada foothills, the state’s historic Gold Rush Country. All evacuation orders there were lifted, however. The fire was 53 percent contained Sunday.
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An evacuation center at the nearby Napa County Fairgrounds is housing about 500 people in tents and campers, he said.
