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“Nothing More Than Ash And Bone” – NorCal Wildfires Now Deadliest In State’s History<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Over five days, the cluster of wildfires that\u2019ve broken out in California\u2019s wine country have claimed at least 31 lives \u2013 making this the deadliest week for wildfires in the state\u2019s history. And with the remains of many incinerated homes still too hot to enter, authorities say that number is likely to climb \u2013 perhaps significantly \u2013 as elderly residents of the afflicted communities were blindsided by the fires\u2019 ferocity, and many were unable to flee in time.<\/p>\n

The average age of the 10 victims whose names have been released is 75,<\/strong> state officials said. The youngest was 57.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Whole neighborhoods have been reduced to smoldering rubble. Meanwhile, an army of firefighters have had little success trying to suppress the flames; the largest conflagrations continue to burn virtually unimpeded. Local firefighters, many of whom have worked for days on end with little or no sleep despite their own homes having burned to the ground, are finally being relieved by reinforcements from out of state, CNN <\/a>reported.<\/p>\n

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Sonoma County Sheriff Rob Giordano described the grim reality of the body recovery efforts, which he said had only just begun.<\/p>\n

“We’re moving into a recovery phase,”<\/strong> Sonoma County Sheriff Rob Giordano said. “That is the reality part of it.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking late Thursday, Giordano said that two more bodies had been recovered as search teams moved into areas where people had been reported missing in the wake of the fires.<\/p>\n

“We have found bodies almost completely intact, and we have found bodies that were nothing more than ash and bones,”<\/strong><\/u> Giordano said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

California\u2019s iconic wine country \u2013 comprising Sonoma and Napa counties \u2013 has been particularly hard hit, as have Mendocino, Yuba, Nevada, Butte and Orange counties. As of late Thursday, 21 fires spanned 300 square miles \u2013 up from 8 on Tuesday. Most are still less than 10% contained. So far, more than 3,000 homes and businesses have been destroyed, as NPR <\/a>reported.<\/p>\n

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“Nothing More Than Ash And Bone” – NorCal Wildfires Now Deadliest In State’s History Over five days, the cluster of wildfires that\u2019ve broken out in California\u2019s wine country have claimed at least 31 lives \u2013 making this the deadliest week for wildfires in the state\u2019s history. And with the remains of many incinerated homes still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,4849,4318],"class_list":["post-26784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-california","tag-wildfires","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26785,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26784\/revisions\/26785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}