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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Search intensifies in fire zone for victims
By MARTHA MENDOZA
and GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
PARADISE, Calif. — Authorities moved to
set up a rapid DNA-analysis system and bring in
cadaver dogs, mobile morgues and more search
teams in an intensified effort to find and identify
victims of the deadliest wildfire in California
history, an inferno that killed at least 42 people.
Five days after flames all but obliterated the
Northern California town of Paradise, popula-
tion 27,000, officials were unsure of the exact
number of missing. But the death toll was
almost certain to rise.
“I want to recover as many remains as we
possibly can, as soon as we can. Because I know
the toll it takes on loved ones,” Butte County
Sheriff Kory Honea said Monday night as he
announced the discovery of 13 more dead.
More than a dozen coroner search-and-re-
covery teams looked for bodies across the apoc-
alyptic landscape that was once Paradise, while
anxious relatives visited shelters and called
police and hospitals in hopes of finding loved
ones.
Lisa Jordan drove 600 miles from Yakima,
Washington, to search for her uncle, Nick Clark,
and his wife, Anne, who lived in Paradise. Anne
Clark has multiple sclerosis and cannot walk.
Jordan said no one seemed to know whether
AP Photo/Noah Berger
Homes leveled by the Camp Fire line a development Monday in Paradise, Calif.
they were able to get out or whether their house
was still standing.
“I’m staying hopeful,” she said. “Until the
final word comes, you keep fighting against it.”
Authorities said they were bringing in two
mobile morgue units from the military, request-
ing an additional 150 search-and-rescue person-
nel, and seeking the setup of a rapid DNA sys-
tem to speed the analysis of remains.
Chaplains accompanied some coroner search
teams that visited dozens of addresses belong-
ing to people reported missing. No cars in the
driveway was a considered a good sign, one car
a little more ominous and multiple burned-out
for all classes of ballistic missiles, should be
declared by North Korea and inspected in any
credible, verifiable deal that addresses Pyong-
yang’s most significant threats to the United
States and its allies.
late Sunday, in which seven Palestinian mil-
itants and a high-ranking Israeli officer were
killed. International mediators have appealed
for restraint, hoping to avert another war.
vehicles more reason for worry.
State officials said the cause of the inferno
was under investigation.
But a landowner near where the blaze began,
Betsy Ann Cowley, said Pacific Gas & Electric
Co. notified her the day before the fire that crews
needed to come onto her property because the
utility’s power lines were sparking. PG&E had
no comment on the email.
More than 5,000 firefighters battling the
blaze made gains overnight, slowing the flames’
advance toward Oroville, a town of about
19,000 people. The fire, which has charred 195
square miles and destroyed more than 6,400
homes since it started Thursday, was reported
30 percent contained.
At the other end of the state, in Southern
California, firefighters continued making prog-
ress against a blaze that killed two people in
star-studded Malibu and destroyed more than
400 structures.
Crews lit backfires and extended contain-
ment lines overnight. They expected to have the
more than 146-square-mile fire fully contained
by Thursday.
The 42 dead in Northern California sur-
passed the deadliest single fire on record, a 1933
blaze in Griffith Park in Los Angeles. A series
of wildfires in Northern California’s wine coun-
try last fall killed 44 people and destroyed more
than 5,000 homes.
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
US analysts locate secret
North Korean missile sites
WASHINGTON — U.S. analysts said Mon-
day they have located 13 secret North Korean
missile development sites, underscoring the
challenge that the Trump administration faces
in trying to reach its promised broad arms con-
trol agreement with Pyongyang.
The administration has said it is hopeful
about eventually reaching an agreement with
North Korea. President Donald Trump declared
after his historic summit in June that with Pres-
ident Kim Jong Un there was “no longer a
nuclear threat from North Korea.” But a report
based on satellite imagery shows the complex-
ity posed by an extensive network of weapons
facilities that the U.S. wants to neutralize.
A report from the Center for Strategic and
International Studies has identified 13 secret
facilities used to produce missiles and related
technology. Although the sites are not launch
facilities and in some cases are rudimentary, the
authors of the report say they are hidden and
illustrate the scope of the North’s weapons pro-
gram and the country’s determination to conceal
its military might.
“The dispersed deployment of these bases
and distinctive tactics employed by ballistic mis-
sile units are combined with decades of exten-
sive camouflage, concealment and deception
practices to maximize the survival of its missile
units from pre-emptive strikes and during war-
time operations,” they said.
The authors say the sites, which can be used
Gaza militants accept
cease-fire; No word
from Israel
JERUSALEM — Hamas and other Gaza
militant groups said today they have accepted
an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire after launch-
ing hundreds of rockets into Israel over the past
24 hours and weathering a wave of punishing
Israeli airstrikes.
There was no immediate word from Israel on
whether it had accepted a deal to halt the heavi-
est exchange of fire with Gaza’s Hamas rulers
since a 2014 war.
Just an hour before the militants made their
declaration, the Israeli Security Cabinet said it
had ordered the military to “continue operations
as needed,” following a six-hour meeting.
The cease-fire was announced by a group of
Gaza militant groups, including Hamas, whose
leader Ismail Haniyeh earlier signaled a readi-
ness to halt the latest round of fighting. He said
the Islamic militant group would stop its rocket
fire if Israel halts its airstrikes.
The terms of the deal appeared to be mod-
est. Daoud Shehab, a spokesman for the Islamic
Jihad militant group, said each side would
promise quiet in exchange for quiet.
The fighting was triggered by a botched
Israeli undercover raid into Hamas-ruled Gaza
Court challenge to be
filed over appointment
of acting AG
WASHINGTON — Maryland is challeng-
ing the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as the
new U.S. acting attorney general, arguing that
President Donald Trump sidestepped the Consti-
tution and the Justice Department’s own succes-
sion plan by elevating Whitaker to the top job.
A filing today sets up a court challenge
between a state and the federal government
over the legitimacy of the country’s chief law
enforcement officer. It comes as Democrats call
on Whitaker to recuse himself from oversee-
ing the special counsel’s Russia investigation
because of critical comments he has made on
the probe and amid concerns over his views on
the scope of judicial authority.
Lawyers for the state say the job should have
gone to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosen-
stein instead of to Whitaker.
They cite a statute governing the line of suc-
cession at the Justice Department that says that
in the case of a vacancy at the attorney general
level, “the Deputy Attorney General may exer-
cise all the duties of that office.” If neither is
available for the job, according to that statute,
then the associate attorney general is supposed
to be elevated. Beyond that, the lawyers say, the
Constitution requires the duties of the attorney
general to be carried out only by someone with
Senate confirmation.
UK Cabinet to meet
after Britain, EU reach
draft Brexit deal
LONDON — Negotiators from Britain and
the European Union have struck a proposed
divorce deal that will be presented to politicians
on both sides for approval, officials in London
and Brussels said today.
After a year and a half of stalled talks, false
starts and setbacks, negotiators agreed on pro-
posals to resolve the main outstanding issue: the
Irish border.
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s office
said the Cabinet would hold a special meeting
Wednesday to consider the proposal. Its support
isn’t guaranteed: May is under pressure from
pro-Brexit ministers not to make further con-
cessions to the EU.
Ambassadors from the 27 other EU coun-
tries are also due to hold a meeting in Brussels
on Wednesday.
May told the Cabinet earlier today that “a
small number” of issues remain to be resolved
in divorce negotiations with the European
Union, while her deputy, David Lidington, said
the two sides are “almost within touching dis-
tance” of a Brexit deal.
The main obstacle has long been how to
ensure there are no customs posts or other
checks along the border between the U.K.’s
Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland after
Brexit.
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