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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2017
Searchers look for bodies in California’s charred ruins
By ELLEN
KNICKMEYER and
JOCELYN GECKER
Associated Press
SONOMA, Calif. —
Search-and-rescue
teams,
some with cadaver dogs,
started looking for bodies
Thursday in parts of Cali-
fornia wine country devas-
tated by wildfires, authorities
said, sounding a warning that
more dead were almost sure to
emerge from the charred ruins.
At least 26 people have
died and some 3,500 homes
and businesses have been
destroyed by the blazes, which
were well on their way to
becoming the deadliest and
most destructive in California
history.
Sonoma County Sher-
iff Robert Giordano said offi-
cials were still investigating
hundreds of reports of miss-
ing people and that recovery
teams would soon begin con-
ducting “targeted searches” for
specific residents at their last
known addresses.
“We have found bodies
almost completely intact, and
we have found bodies that
were nothing more than ash
and bones,” the sheriff said.
Some remains have been
identified using medical
devices that turned up in the
scorched heaps that were once
homes.
“There have been IDs in
this case, in a pile of ash and
bone, where there was a piece
of metal left from somebody’s
surgery, like a hip replace-
ment, with an ID number that
helped us identify the person,”
he said.
Strong winds on Thursday
and Friday could erase modest
gains made by firefighters.
“We are not out of this
emergency. We are not even
close to being out of this emer-
gency,” Emergency Opera-
tions Director Mark Ghilar-
ducci told a news conference
Thursday.
More than 8,000 firefight-
ers were battling the blazes
AP Photo/Jeff Chiu
Todd Caughey hugs his daughter, Ella, as they visit the site of their home destroyed by fires in Kenwood, Calif. For
many residents in the path of one of California’s deadliest blazes, talk is of wind direction, evacuations and goodbyes.
‘We are not out of this
emergency. We are not
even close to being out
of this emergency.’
Mark Ghilarducci
emergency operations director
and more manpower and
equipment was pouring in
from across the country and
from as far as Australia and
Canada, officials said.
The ferocious fires that
started Sunday leveled entire
neighborhoods in parts of
Sonoma and Napa counties.
In anticipation of the next
round of flames, entire cit-
ies evacuated, leaving their
streets empty, with the only
motion coming from ashes
falling like snowflakes.
Fire officials are investigat-
ing downed power lines and
other utility equipment fail-
ures as possible causes of the
fires, said California Depart-
ment of Forestry and Fire Pro-
tection spokeswoman Janet
Upton. She said it’s unclear if
downed power lines and live
wires resulted from fires or
started them.
Jennifer Robison of Pacific
Gas and Electric Co. says the
AP Photo/Jeff Chiu
An exterior window frames a home destroyed by fires in
Santa Rosa, Calif.
utility is focused on restoring
power and maintaining safety.
She says they will not spec-
ulate about the causes of the
fires.
An estimated 25,000 peo-
ple have been driven from
their homes by the flames,
officials said. A few left
behind cookies for firefight-
ers and signs reading, “Please
save our home!”
In Calistoga, a historic
resort town known for wine
tastings and hot springs, 5,300
people were under evacuation
orders.
As the wildfires raged for a
fourth day, they have contin-
ued to grow in size and cross
county lines. A total count
of 22 fires on Wednesday
changed to 21 on Thursday
because two large fires had
merged together, said state
Fire Chief Ken Pimlott.
Many burned out of con-
trol, spanning more than 304
square miles, an area that if
taken together was equivalent
to the size of New York City’s
five boroughs.
Strategic attacks that have
curbed destruction and death
tolls in recent years have not
worked against the ferocity of
the blazes.
Officials say fire crews
have some progress on the
deadliest fire in Sonoma
County, bringing containment
to 10 percent.
The ash rained down on
Sonoma Valley, covering
windshields, as winds picked
up. Countless emergency
vehicles hurried toward the
flames, sirens blaring, as evac-
uees sped away after jamming
possessions into their cars and
filling their gas tanks.
Helicopters and air tankers
assisted thousands of firefight-
ers who were trying to beat
back the flames. Until now, the
efforts have focused on “life
safety” rather than extinguish-
ing the blazes, partly because
the flames were shifting with
winds and targeting communi-
ties without warning.
In Southern California,
cooler weather and moist
ocean air helped firefighters
gain ground against a wildfire
that has scorched nearly 14
square miles.
Orange County fire offi-
cials said the blaze was 60
percent contained.
Gecker reported from San
Francisco. Associated Press
writers Olga R. Rodriguez,
Andrew Dalton and Juliet Wil-
liams Dalton in San Francisco
contributed to this report.
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