Many victims of California's worst wildfire were elderly and unable to escape
by Maria L. La Ganga, Laura Newberry, Paige St. John and Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times
Dec 14, 2018
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Rose Farrell is the oldest victim of the devastating Camp fire to be identified so far. She was 99, and she died inside her home on Herman Road in Paradise.
Evva Holt, 85, died inside a pickup truck after she was evacuated from Feather Canyon Gracious Retirement Living. She made it only a mile.
Richard Brown, who was 74 when the blaze overcame him, died under underneath a vehicle. He'd managed to travel less than a quarter-mile from his home in the tiny Sierra Nevada town of Concow.
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