SACRAMENTO, California - Authorities searching through the blackened aftermath of California's deadliest wildfire Wednesday released the names of some 130 people who are unaccounted, including many in their 80s and 90s, and dozens more could still be unaccounted for. Officials in Northern California said Tuesday that search crews had found six more bodies, bringing the death toll from the so-called Camp Fire to 56 and the statewide total to 59.</s>CHICO, Butte County — Search and recovery crews found the remains of eight more people, bringing the total number of victims killed in the Camp Fire to 56, fire officials said at a Wednesday night news conference.

All eight were found in Paradise — six inside structures and two outside.

Butte County Sheriff-Coroner Kory Honea said 130 people remain “unaccounted for.” He said a partial list of the missing was released earlier in the day.

Honea said 47 of the remains have been tentatively identified but not positively confirmed.

“We have been able to locate or determine that over 200 people we thought were missing or unaccounted for are not — as of tonight we have 130 people on our unaccounted for list,” Honea said.

He said he expects the list of 130 will get shorter as more people are found. Some 461 people are working to search for victims. Officials have added cadaver dogs.

Officials said the Camp Fire has destroyed a total of 10,321 buildings — 8,650 of which are single family homes. They also said they have towed 128 vehicles that were abandoned during the fire — and many were total losses as they were badly burned.

The fire grew by 3,000 acres since Wednesday morning to 138,000 acres and remained 35 percent contained.

The catastrophic Camp Fire’s growth had slowed overnight and cooler temperatures and less wind on Wednesday were helping firefighters.

The inferno is the deadliest and most destructive in state history.

More than 13,000 people evacuated from the fire are living in shelters. An outbreak of norovirus has sickened people at one shelter in Chico, according to Butte County public health officials. They could not say how many people were ill, but reported that they had been moved to an isolated area of the shelter to prevent spread of the virus.</s>Popular

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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and FEMA Director Brock Long visited the devastated area today to thank firefighters and rescue workers. The search for bodies is gruesome as some human remains are found inside burned structures and others outside.

CALIFORNIA – 9 p.m. ET: As of Wednesday night, eight more human remains have been found, bringing the death toll to 56. Six of them were found inside structures and two were found outside. Statewide, the death toll is 59 (including three from the Woolsey Fire). There have been more than 10,000 structures destroyed by the Camp Fire, including homes. The total amount of evacuated residents remains at 52,000 people. The Camp Fire containment remains at 35 percent. Some 138,000 acres have been scorched.

Authorities searching through the blackened aftermath of California’s deadliest wildfire Wednesday released the names of some 130 people who are unaccounted, including many in their 80s and 90s, and dozens more could still be unaccounted for. As the names of the missing were made public, additional crews joined the search. “We want to be able to cover as much ground as quickly as we possibly can,” Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said. “This is a very difficult task.” A sheriff’s department spokeswoman, Megan McMann, acknowledged that the list of the missing was incomplete. She said detectives were concerned about being overwhelmed with calls from relatives if the entire list were released. (read more)</s>Authorities searching through the blackened aftermath of California’s deadliest wildfire Wednesday released the names of some 130 people who are unaccounted, including many in their 80s and 90s, and dozens more could still be unaccounted for. Officials in Northern California said Tuesday that search crews had found six more bodies, bringing the death toll from the so-called Camp Fire to 56 and the statewide total to 59.

As the names of the missing were made public, additional crews joined the search. “We want to be able to cover as much ground as quickly as we possibly can,” Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said. “This is a very difficult task.”

A sheriff’s department spokeswoman, Megan McMann, acknowledged that the list of the missing was incomplete. She said detectives were concerned about being overwhelmed with calls from relatives if the entire list were released.

A new lawsuit blames the fire on a major utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, for allegedly failing to inspect and properly maintain its power lines. In a statement, PG&E said customer safety was its “highest priority” and it’s focusing on helping first responders.

Five hundred miles south, firefighters have made progress battling the “Woolsey Fire.” Some neighborhoods were reopened, and residents were able to see if their home survived.</s>PARADISE (AP) – Authorities searching through the blackened aftermath of California’s deadliest wildfire have released the names of about 100 people who are still missing, including many in their 80s and 90s, and dozens more could still be unaccounted for.

As the names were made public late Tuesday, additional crews joined the search, and the statewide death toll climbed to at least 51, with 48 dead in Northern California and three fatalities in Southern California.

“We want to be able to cover as much ground as quickly as we possibly can,” Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said. “This is a very difficult task.”

A sheriff’s department spokeswoman, Megan McMann, acknowledged that the list was incomplete. She said detectives are concerned they will be overwhelmed by calls from relatives if the entire list is released.

“We can’t release them all at once,” McMann said. “So they are releasing the names in batches.” She said the list would be updated.

Authorities have not updated the total number of missing since Sunday, when 228 people were unaccounted for.

Meanwhile, friends and relatives of the missing grew increasingly desperate. A message board at a shelter was filled with photos of the missing and pleas for any information.

“I hope you are okay,” read one hand-written note on the board filled with sheets of notebook paper. Another had a picture of a missing man: “If seen, please have him call.”

Some of the missing are not on the list, said Sol Bechtold, who is searching for his 75-year-old mother, Joanne Caddy, whose house burned down along with the rest of her neighborhood in Magalia, just north of Paradise, the town of 27,000 that was consumed by flames last week.

Bechtold said he spoke with the sheriff’s office Wednesday morning, and they confirmed they have an active missing person’s case on Caddy. But Caddy, a widow who lived alone and did not drive, was not on the list.

“The list they published is missing a lot of names,” Bechtold said. Community members have compiled their own list.

Greg Gibson was one of the people searching the message board Tuesday, hoping to find information about his neighbors. They’ve been reported missing, but he does not know if they tried to escape or hesitated a few minutes too long before fleeing Paradise, where about 7,700 homes were destroyed.

“It happened so fast. It would have been such an easy decision to stay, but it was the wrong choice,” Gibson said from the Neighborhood Church in Chico, California, which was serving as a shelter for some of the more than 1,000 evacuees.

Inside the church, evacuee Harold Taylor chatted with newfound friends. The 72-year-old Vietnam veteran, who walks with a cane, said he received a call Thursday morning to evacuate immediately. He saw the flames leaping up behind his house, left with the clothes on his back and barely made it out alive.

Along the way, he tried to convince his neighbor to get in his car and evacuate with him, but the neighbor declined. He doesn’t know what happened to his friend.

“We didn’t have 10 minutes to get out of there,” he said. “It was already in flames downtown, all the local restaurants and stuff,” he said.

The search for the dead was drawing on portable devices that can identify someone’s genetic material in a couple of hours, rather than days or weeks.

“In many circumstances, without rapid DNA technology, it’s just such a lengthy process,” said Frank DePaolo, a deputy commissioner of the New York City medical examiners’ office, which has been at the forefront of the science of identifying human remains since 9/11.

Before the Paradise tragedy, the deadliest single fire on record in California was a 1933 blaze in Griffith Park in Los Angeles that killed 29.

At the other end of the state, firefighters made progress against a massive blaze that has killed two people in star-studded Malibu and destroyed well over 400 structures in Southern California.

The flames roared to life again in a mountainous wilderness area Tuesday, sending up a huge plume of smoke near the community of Lake Sherwood. Still, firefighters made gains.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke canceled a trip to Asia and planned to visit the fire zones Wednesday and Thursday.

The cause of the fires remained under investigation, but they broke out around the time and place that two utilities reported equipment trouble. Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom, who takes office in January, sidestepped questions about what action should be taken against utilities if their power lines are found to be responsible.

People who lost homes in the Northern California blaze sued Pacific Gas & Electric Co. on Tuesday, accusing the utility of negligence and blaming it for the fire. An email to PG&E was not immediately returned.

Linda Rawlings was on a daylong fishing trip with her husband and 85-year-old father when the fire broke out.

Her next-door neighbors opened the back gate so her three dogs could escape before they fled the flames, and the dogs were picked up several days later waiting patiently in the charred remains of their home, she said.

After days of uncertainty, Rawlings learned Tuesday morning that her “Smurf blue” home in Magalia burned to the ground.

She sat looking shell-shocked on the curb outside a hotel in Corning.

“Before, you always have hope,” she said. “You don’t want to give up. But now we know.”</s>Authorities searching through the blackened aftermath of California’s deadliest wildfire have released the names of about 100 people who are missing, including many in their 80s and 90s, and dozens more could still be unaccounted for.

As the names were made public, additional crews joined the search, and the statewide death toll climbed Wednesday to at least 51, with 48 dead in Northern California and three fatalities in Southern California.

“We want to be able to cover as much ground as quickly as we possibly can,” Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said. “This is a very difficult task.”

READ MORE: Death toll in California wildfires climbs to 48 as search for missing continues

Nearly a week after the blazes began, California Gov. Jerry Brown and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke toured the area.

Brown said he spoke Wednesday with President Donald Trump and that the president pledged “the full resources of the federal government.”

“The natural world is the power, and we create a lot of comfort and we create a lot of security,” Brown said. “But at the end of the day, we are physical beings in a biological world.”

Zinke said many factors contributed to the blazes. He urged people not to “point fingers” and focus on moving forward.

A sheriff’s department spokeswoman, Megan McMann, acknowledged that the list of the missing was incomplete. She said detectives were concerned about being overwhelmed with calls from relatives if the entire list were released.

“We can’t release them all at once,” McMann said. “So they are releasing the names in batches.” She said the list would be updated.

READ MORE: What can be done to avoid disastrous wildfires in California?

Authorities have not updated the total number of missing since Sunday, when 228 people were unaccounted for.

Meanwhile, friends and relatives of the missing grew increasingly desperate. A message board at a shelter was filled with photos of the missing and pleas for any information.

“I hope you are okay,” read one hand-written note on the board filled with sheets of notebook paper. Another had a picture of a missing man: “If seen, please have him call.”

WATCH: Governor Jerry Brown says wildfire-impacted areas look like a ‘war zone’

Some of the missing are not on the list, said Sol Bechtold, who is searching for his 75-year-old mother, Joanne Caddy, whose house burned down along with the rest of her neighborhood in Magalia, just north of Paradise, the town of 27,000 that was consumed by flames last week.

Bechtold said he spoke with the sheriff’s office Wednesday morning, and they confirmed they have an active missing person’s case on Caddy. But Caddy, a widow who lived alone and did not drive, was not on the list.

“The list they published is missing a lot of names,” Bechtold said. Community members have compiled their own list.

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Greg Gibson was one of the people searching the message board Tuesday, hoping to find information about his neighbors. They’ve been reported missing, but he does not know if they tried to escape or hesitated a few minutes too long before fleeing Paradise, where about 7,700 homes were destroyed.

“It happened so fast. It would have been such an easy decision to stay, but it was the wrong choice,” Gibson said from the Neighborhood Church in Chico, California, which was serving as a shelter for some of the more than 1,000 evacuees.

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Inside the church, evacuee Harold Taylor chatted with newfound friends. The 72-year-old Vietnam veteran, who walks with a cane, said he received a call Thursday morning to evacuate immediately. He saw the flames leaping up behind his house, left with the clothes on his back and barely made it out alive.

Along the way, he tried to convince his neighbor to get in his car and evacuate with him, but the neighbor declined. He doesn’t know what happened to his friend.

“We didn’t have 10 minutes to get out of there,” he said. “It was already in flames downtown, all the local restaurants and stuff,” he said.

The search for the dead was drawing on portable devices that can identify someone’s genetic material in a couple of hours, rather than days or weeks.

Before the Paradise tragedy, the deadliest single fire on record in California was a 1933 blaze in Griffith Park in Los Angeles that killed 29.

The cause of the fires remained under investigation, but they broke out around the time and place that two utilities reported equipment trouble. Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom, who takes office in January, sidestepped questions about what action should be taken against utilities if their power lines are found to be responsible.

People who lost homes in the Northern California blaze sued Pacific Gas & Electric Co. on Tuesday, accusing the utility of negligence and blaming it for the fire. An email to PG&E was not immediately returned.

Linda Rawlings was on a daylong fishing trip with her husband and 85-year-old father when the fire broke out.

Her next-door neighbors opened the back gate so her three dogs could escape before they fled the flames, and the dogs were picked up several days later waiting patiently in the charred remains of their home, she said.

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After days of uncertainty, Rawlings learned Tuesday that her “Smurf blue” home in Magalia burned to the ground.

She sat looking shell-shocked on the curb outside a hotel in Corning.

“Before, you always have hope,” she said. “You don’t want to give up. But now we know.”</s>Butte County's Camp Fire — already the state's most deadly and destructive in modern history — had killed 56 people as of Wednesday, Sheriff Kory Honea said at a press conference.

That's up from 48 deaths on Tuesday. Honea said the eight additional bodies found Wednesday all were in Paradise. Only three victims have been identified so far: Concow resident 48-year-old Jesus Fernandez, Magalia resident 77-year-old Carl Wiley and 65-year-old Ernest Foss, of Paradise.

Meanwhile, Honea said there still are 130 people unaccounted for in the fire, a decrease from 228 people earlier this week.

Honea said advanced DNA technology was en route to Butte County to help identify the dead, and his office has already tentatively done that for 47 of the victims. He told area residents on Tuesday that, because it's "very, very difficult" to identify fire victims, the general population might end up finding bodies themselves when they're let back home.

The news also came as Honea acknowledged it was possible some bodies would never be identified because of how severely the fire burned.

The destruction from the fire has also gotten worse.

The number of structures destroyed went up Wednesday to 10,321 — of which 8,650 are single-family homes. The fire's size also grew to 138,000 acres Wednesday, fire officials said at a press conference.

The blaze that broke out in the Paradise area on the morning of November 8 was still 35 percent containment. It has forced the evacuation of 52,000, of whom 1,385 are still in shelters.

The unprecedented fire damaged far fewer structures than it's destroyed. The current damage toll is at only 217 total structures.

Meanwhile, county officials confirmed Wednesday that there was an outbreak of norovirus at the Neighborhood Church shelter in Chico. They said they didn't know how many people were affected. Those who are sick are separated from everyone else and being treated by public health nurses, they said.

These are the people who were still considered missing as of Tuesday evening (If you are on this list, the sheriff's office asks you to call 530-538-6570, 530-538-7544 or 530-538-7671 to let them know you're safe):

More: JUST POSTED: FEMA opens in Oroville as Camp Fire grows Wednesday</s>That list included many people in their 80s and 90s, the Associated Press reported. Officials said late Wednesday they had found eight more bodies in Northern California, bringing the death toll there to 56, many of them from Paradise, a town of more than 26,000 that has virtually been destroyed.
The death toll in the Camp Fire rises to 56, with the statewide total at 59. Authorities release the names of 130 people who are missing, including many in their 80s and 90s, with the potential that dozens more are unaccounted for.