A firefighter waters down a back burn on Cloverdale Road, near the town of Igo, in California.
Redding (California) - The three bodies have yet to be positively identified.
Published: Sun 29 Jul 2018, 10:21 PM
Updated: Mon 30 Jul 2018, 12:25 AM
Human remains believed to be that of a missing elderly woman and her two great-grandchildren were found at a home destroyed by a monster wildfire raging in Northern California, officials said on Saturday, raising the death toll from the blaze to five.
The three bodies have yet to be positively identified. But news of their discovery, confirmed by the Shasta County sheriff, came as some 3,500 firefighters struggled through a sixth day to corral fierce, erratic flames stoked by tinder-dry vegetation, high winds and triple-digit temperatures.
The Carr Fire has charred nearly 34,000 hectares, an area nearly three times the size of San Francisco, since erupting on Monday near Redding, a city of 90,000 people about 260km north of the state capital Sacramento.
The blaze, driven by gale-force winds was one of about a dozen major wildfires burning across California on Saturday and of nearly 90 overall from Texas to Oregon.
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