{"id":305479,"date":"2018-11-13T08:05:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T08:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305479"},"modified":"2018-11-13T08:05:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T08:05:15","slug":"death-toll-rises-to-42-in-the-deadliest-wildfire-in-california-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/death-toll-rises-to-42-in-the-deadliest-wildfire-in-california-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll rises to 42 in the Deadliest Wildfire In California History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305480 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fire-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fire-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fire-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fire.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A massive blaze that ravaged the wooded town of Paradise in northern California became the deadliest wildfire in the state\u2019s modern history with the number of persons killed rose to 42 on Monday,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Officials said, \u201cremains of 13 more people were discovered, bringing the death toll to 42.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Firefighters were digging battle lines to contain the &#8220;Camp Fire&#8221; in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains north of Sacramento, while search teams were on a grim mission to recover the dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Fires thrashed by strong winds were raging through thousands of acres of forests and chaparral in both Northern and Southern California on Monday, having sent a quarter of a million people fleeing their homes across the tinder-dry state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As the search for victims dragged on, friends and relatives of the missing called hospitals, police, shelters and the coroner&#8217;s office in hopes of learning about their loved ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More than 5,000 firefighters statewide were battling wildfires that destroyed more than 7,000 structures and scorched more than 325 square miles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">US President Donald Trump &#8220;declared the fires in the state of California a major disaster making people affected eligible for various types of federal government support,&#8221; the White House said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive blaze that ravaged the wooded town of Paradise in northern California became the deadliest wildfire in the state\u2019s modern history with the number of persons killed rose to 42 on Monday, Officials said, \u201cremains of 13 more people were discovered, bringing the death toll to 42.\u201d Firefighters were digging battle lines to contain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[1533,9659,9658],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305482,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305479\/revisions\/305482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}