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What will go down as California’s largest wildfire in history is now the deadliest wildfire in history.
After authorities had hope they had found everybody safely, 13 more bodies turned up bring the dead in California to a total of 44 at this time. Many more people are still unaccounted for.
Allyn Pierce – a resident was trapped by a wall of fire as he tried to flee the flames coming closer and closer to his truck. Chris Gonzalez – another resident counted the ever-narrowing escape routes from his home as the highlands around him erupted into flames. Rebecca Hackett was engulfed by a red-orange sheet of flames as she sped toward safety in her car.
RESIDENT ALLYN PIERCE: “I was like, ‘I think I’m done,’” a registered nurse who was trapped in traffic in Paradise, Calif., where most of the community was burned. “I just kept thinking, ‘I’m going to die in melting plastic.’”
Mr. Pierce survived the wildfires but the destruction continues.
