California’s Deadliest Fire Leaves 48 Dead, Hundreds Missing

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▶️Aerial footage shows people hurrying to evacuate their homes as a new, fast-moving brush fire ignited Tuesday night in the Rialto area of San Bernardino County, California.

👉Search teams in the U.S. state of California found more bodies Tuesday in areas ravaged by the most destructive wildfire in the state’s history, bringing the overall death toll to 48.

Crews are working with cadaver dogs and a rapid DNA analysis system in and around Paradise, a town of 27,000 people where in the span of a few days a rapidly moving fire destroyed more than 7,000 homes.

Authorities said more than 200 people were still unaccounted for as the searches continued and the fire advanced to the north and east of Paradise.

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