Victims of large-scale forest fires raging in California from Thursday, resulted in 23 people in Paradise and the surrounding area and another 2 in Malibu. In addition civilians were injured 3 firefighters: their burns and injuries of varying severity, reports BBC.
The fires that began on 8 November, were the most destructive in California history. Now in the state of rage 3 fires, one in the North and two in the South.
Most of the casualties and damage in Northern California, near the town of Paradise. It is almost completely destroyed: according to the latest data, here burned more than 6.7 thousand houses. Fire burns more than 42 thousand hectares of the areas covered by the flame, will be evacuated nearly 250 thousand people.
In the South, the fires spread in the outskirts of Los Angeles and Ventura County. The total area on fire in southern California, more than 30 thousand hectares Large city of Malibu and other popular resorts still in danger as the fire is moving toward the Pacific ocean, the coastal zone.
