“I was a mover and now I’m pretty sure I’m out of business,” Wrachford said. “Until the final word comes, you keep fighting against it.”

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea updated the confirmed fatality number Monday night — a figure that is almost certain to spike following the blaze that last week destroyed Paradise, a town of 27,000 about 180 miles (290 kilometres) northeast of San Francisco. “Looking for families loved ones that are missing.”

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea put the number of missing at 228. To report friends or family that you believe are missing due to the Camp Fire call:

The sheriff's office suggests making calls to the center even if the friend or family member has already been reported. “I don’t usually get to recovery anything that’s alive,” said Vicky Vincent with the Shasta County Coroner’s Office. Jerry Brown is requesting a "major disaster declaration" from the president for the wildfires burning at both ends of the state. Before the Camp Fire broke out Thursday morning, the state’s single deadliest fire occurred in 1933 in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park Fire, where 29 people working on trails and roads were overcome by flames whipping through a nearby canyon. (Reuters) - More than 200 people were missing early on Monday in California’s deadliest and most destructive blaze on record, one of two fires raging in the state which have killed at least 31 people and forced more than a quarter of a million evacuations.
The death toll of the Camp Fire in Butte County, the deadliest wildfire in Californian history, rises to 48 people while dozens are missing.