31 killed in deadliest wildfire in California history
A woman who waited to put her make-up on and a disabled man are among the dead victims.
Monday 12 November 2018 22:24, UK
The number of people killed in California has risen to 31, making it the deadliest wildfire in the state's history, US authorities have said.
An additional 228 people remain unaccounted for.
Butte County Sheriff Cory Honea said human remains recovered on Sunday included five bodies found at homes and one in a vehicle in the northern town of Paradise.
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A woman who waited to put her make-up on and a disabled man are among the dead.
Former president Barack Obama said he and wife Michelle were "heartbroken" as he urged people to do what they can to help.
He tweeted: "Michelle and I are heartbroken for everybody who's lost so much in California, and grateful for the heroism of the firefighters who've been risking their lives around the clock to save others.
"Please do what you can to help our fellow Americans in need."
An unnamed survivor filmed the moment he revisited the badly-hit town of Paradise, where people he knew were killed.
The footage shows four burned-out cars, some of which have the charred remains of people still sat on the seats inside.
Blue flames can be seen flickering inside one of the destroyed vehicles.
The man, who says he was trapped in the area along with the victims, said that he had visited a woman in her house as the fires approached.
He said: "She had to put her make-up on, she died because of it."
The man also revealed that his disabled friend was killed in the fire.
The distressed cameraman said at the end of the footage: "I'm so lucky to be alive, I went down the canyon into a creek."
It comes as a nurse revealed she "thought she was going to die" when her car was engulfed in flames after she evacuated the hospital where she worked.
Nichole Jolly's trousers caught on fire and she lost contact with her husband as she fled to safety.
A car park in Paradise is a staging area for hearses as search teams try to find bodies of casualties in the fires.
Authorities have called in a DNA lab to help identify the dead.
California governor Jerry Brown is requesting a "major disaster declaration" from President Donald Trump for the wildfires burning at both ends of the state.
US authorities say more than 8,000 firefighters are battling three large wildfires in California that have destroyed thousands of structures.
Roughly 397 square miles of the state is burning, with the the blaze known as the Camp Fire in Butte County being the largest.
The Woolsey Fire in Southern California has hit Malibu - which is popular with celebrities - as well as the city of Thousand Oaks, which was the site of a deadly shooting at a country music bar last week.
Weather conditions for the fires are ripe, with strong winds continuing through Sunday in Northern California and through Tuesday in Southern California.