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Terrifying search; toll at 48

Dozens of families are frantically searching for loved ones missing in the massive wildfire in Northern California, including many who lived in the nowdecimated town of Paradise.

Teresa Moniz pressed her hand against her head Tuesday as she scanned a list of missing persons in a church in neighboring Chico and then added to it, writing, “Albert Moniz aka Pete,” the name of her husband, who is disabled.

When the Camp Fire blaze reached Paradise last Thursday, Teresa said, she was in nearby Magalia while her husband was at home.

“[Albert] called me and said, ‘There’s a fire, I have to get out,’ ” Teresa, 60, told the Los Angeles Times.

Moniz’s 67-year-old husband then called her again from a friend’s house. That was the last time she heard from him.

Lisa Jordan said she drove 600 miles from Yakima, Wash., to look for her uncle, Nick Clark, and his wife, Anne, who has multiple sclerosis and can’t walk. The couple lived in Paradise. “I’m staying hopeful,” Jordan said. “Until the final word comes, you keep fighting against it.”

A retired Paradise couple — Rick and Lolene Rios — had already survived a 1990s blaze at their former home in Concow.

Rick, 69, came out of the latest horror in Paradise with severe burns to his hands and face.

He is being treated at UC Davis Medical Center — but his 58year-old wife, Lolene, is still listed as missing.

“As far as we know, she was still in the house” when the blaze struck, Rick’s daughter, Maria Rios, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

“Right now, it’s just a recovery effort.”

Meanwhile, officials raised the death toll on Tuesday night to 48 for the Camp Fire, which is the deadliest wildfire in Golden State history. Two of the newly discovered victims were identified by authorities.

The Butte County Sheriff ’s office said they had recovered the body of Carl Wiley, a former worker for Michelin tires.

Wiley, 77, will be buried next to wife Mary Lee, who died of cancer nearly 30 years ago, his son James Wiley said.

Paradise resident and musician Ernie Foss Jr. was identified as one of the victims by his daughter, Angela Loo.

Foss, 63, was found on a streett outside his home,e, lying next to his dead dog Bernice, KTVU-TVV re-reported.

“We’re devas-devastated,” Looo said.

Foss hadd advanced lymphedemama and could not walk, his daughter said, addinging that she doesn’tesn’t know howow he got out-tside.