Death toll rises to 25 in California wildfires
BODIES FOUND IN BURNT-OUT CAR
TWO people have been found dead as a pair of wildfires stretched from inland canyons to the Pacific in southern California.
Resdients were left to sift through the remains of their homes for anything they had left.
The two bodies were found severely burned inside a car on a long residential driveway in Malibu, Los Angeles County sheriff’s chief John Benedict said.
The deaths brings to 25 the number of people killed in the state’s wildfires in the past few days, with 23 found dead in a northern California wildfire.
Firefighters have saved thousands of homes, despite working in “extreme, tough fire conditions that they said they have never seen in their life”, Los Angeles County fire chief Daryl Osby said.
No new growth was reported on the larger of the two fires, which stands at 109 square miles.
Progress also came against the smaller fire, prompting Ventura County officials to allow people in a handful of communities to return to their homes.
Hundreds of thousands across the region remain under evacuation orders, and could stay that way for days as winds pick up again.
Fire burned in famously glamorous coastal spots like Malibu, where Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian West and Martin Sheen were among those forced out of their homes amid an evacuation order.