Death toll rises as California wildfires wreak devastation

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Update 6&period;45pm&colon; A wildfire that tore through Malibu mansions and working-class suburban homes in southern California has killed two people and more than doubled in size&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Officials took advantage of temporarily calm conditions to assess damage from the blaze that has burned 109 square miles north and west of Los Angeles&period; Firefighters were searching burned-out neighbourhoods after two blazes that have already destroyed 150 homes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Los Angeles County sheriff’s chief John Benedict said two people have been found dead but provided no details on the deaths&period; Wildfires burning across California have now killed 11 people&comma; including nine found dead in a massive fire in northern California that destroyed the town of Paradise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the south&comma; a smoky haze still hung in blue skies&comma; with the vicious winds that drove the flames in their first two days gone and expected to stay away until Sunday&period; Firefighters scrambled in the narrow window of calm to try to block the two wildfires that have blazed a path of destruction toward the sea&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;11&sol;0F9CCD2F-E883-4C5B-BC3D-23AC6976F369&period;jpeg"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;11&sol;0F9CCD2F-E883-4C5B-BC3D-23AC6976F369&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1099" height&equals;"1621" class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-120498" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In less than two days&comma; the Hill and Woolsey fires had prompted evacuation orders for more than 250&comma;000 people&comma; including the entire city of Malibu&comma; which is home to some of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The lull on Saturday could give firefighters a chance to control the edges of the blazes and to swap fire crews&comma; replacing firefighters who had worked for two days without rest&comma; Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said&period; But with the winds returning&comma; it is likely more homes would be lost&comma; Mr Osby warned&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There’s not going to be any relief in this firefight&comma;” he said&period; By late Friday night&comma; the smaller Hill fire’s advance had halted&comma; but the Woolsey fire kept surging&period; The two fires erupted on Thursday as warnings of extreme fire danger covered much of the state because of dry weather and blowing winds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;120499" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-120499" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;11&sol;D0ABF2E5-0E6A-4808-BF06-62657026CC69&period;jpeg"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;11&sol;D0ABF2E5-0E6A-4808-BF06-62657026CC69&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"377" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-120499" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-120499" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">A home burns in the Calabasas section of Los Angeles<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>In northern California&comma; a wildfire killed some in their cars as they tried to flee the racing flames&period; The state’s most destructive fire in at least a century has burned down more than 6&comma;700 buildings&comma; almost all of them homes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>President Donald Trump issued an emergency declaration providing federal funding to help firefighters battling the wildfires across California&period; In the south&comma; flames leapt and raged from Thousand Oaks south through the north-western San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles and appeared to be heading towards the Pacific Ocean&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thousand Oaks already was reeling from a shooting at a country music bar that killed a dozen people this week when it was besieged by fire&period; It raged on both sides of the city and shut down part of the main freeway into town&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;11&sol;75C7E1E4-E8F8-4993-AB06-F7D3251EF6E8&period;jpeg"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;11&sol;75C7E1E4-E8F8-4993-AB06-F7D3251EF6E8&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1156" height&equals;"1065" class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-120500" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s devastating&period; It’s like &OpenCurlyQuote;welcome to hell&comma;&&num;8217&semi;” resident Cynthia Ball said about the dual disasters outside a centre serving as a shelter for evacuees&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t even know what to say&period; It’s like we’re all walking around kind of in a trance&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Three-quarters of the city of 130&comma;000 was under evacuation orders — and that probably included people affected by the shooting&comma; Mayor Andy Fox said&period; The entire coastal enclave of Malibu also was ordered to flee&comma; with Lady Gaga&comma; Kim Kardashian West and Guillermo del Toro among the celebrities forced to abandon their homes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Woolsey blaze also destroyed the home of Dr Strange director Scott Derrickson and the historic Paramount Ranch where HBO’s Westworld and many other shows have been filmed&period; The flames spread so fast that firefighters could not be everywhere at once and residents took matters into their own hands&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>People tried to save a mansion by hurling buckets of water from a swimming pool on to burning brush over a fence&period; Firefighters pleaded with people to heed mandatory evacuation orders&period; Ventura County Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen said some firefighters were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;literally pulling people out of burning homes”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Even though the wind has died down&comma; stay on guard&comma;” he urged&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re in the seventh year of a drought&period; Our weather conditions out there&comma; and our fuel conditions are absolutely right for fire … when we ask you to leave&comma; please leave early&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e4a7e70f297">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; 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