CNN: Death toll grows to 63 in Northern California's Camp Fire
Paradise, California (CNN)The death toll from the Camp Fire in Northern California has grown to 63 people, Butte County Sheriff and Coroner Kory Honea said Thursday evening.
Seven sets of remains were discovered Thursday, he said.
Hundreds of rescue personnel dressed in white overalls sifted through smoldering rubble and checked mangled cars, searching for human remains in California's deadliest and most destructive wildfire.
The fire turned the hard-hit town of Paradise into ash and debris and also devastated the nearby communities of Magalia and Concow. Honea said three sets of remains were found in Paradise, three in Magalia and one in Concow.
At least two other people have been killed in another major wildfire in Southern California, putting the state's death toll at 65 since the two blazes began last week.
In the Camp Fire's devastating aftermath, cadaver dogs, deputies and coroners are searching the ruins where Paradise, a town of 27,000, once stood.
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Update: The Latest: Authorities report 7 more fatalities in wildfire (AP)
WNU Editor: Talk to my brother this evening (he lives in the Bay area/San Francisco). He has never seen anything like it. The sky looks like an apocalypse has just happened, and he lives far away from where the fires are burning.
