Death toll jumps to 48 in Paradise fire as frantic search for missing continues
by Joseph Serna, Dakota Smith, Hailey Branson-Potts and Nicole Santa Cruz, Los Angeles Times
Nov 14, 2018
4 minutes
PARADISE, Calif. - The number of deaths from California's worst fire rose to 48 on Tuesday as authorities and family members mounted desperate searches for the hundreds still missing.
The Camp fire has scorched 130,000 acres since Thursday, ripping through mountain towns in Butte County. More than 8,800 structures - mostly homes in Paradise - were turned to rubble as the blaze charred the region.
The death toll from the fire jumped Monday when officials said they recovered the remains of 13 people as teams continued to search the burned-out rubble of thousands of lost homes. The remains of 10 people were
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