Death toll climbs to 28 as crews begin grim search among ashes of California wine country fires
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - As weary fire crews began to make progress against a firestorm that has killed at least 28 people in Northern California's wine country, local officials said Thursday that they have begun a grim search for more bodies amid the ashes of burned communities.
At a morning news conference, Sonoma County Sheriff Robert Giordano told reporters that a 14th person was found dead in his county as search crews and cadaver dogs began sifting through debris for the first time Thursday.
The searches can take hours, and identification will be difficult, Giordano said at the briefing.
"So far, in the recoveries, we have found bodies that were almost completely intact and bodies that were nothing more
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