Gavin Newsom of California surveyed wildfire damage and delivered an update on the state’s efforts to curb the fire’s spread. Transcript ‘Five of the Most Destructive Fires’: Newsom Cites Historic Toll of Blazes Gov. To his west, the August Complex Fire - which this week became the largest in the state’s history - had now burned across 747,000 acres, Mr. ![]() Newsom held a surreal livestreamed news conference, speaking among charred trees in the midst of a yellowish, smoky haze left by the raging North Complex Fires. In California, where more than three million acres have burned, Mr. Sheriff Kory Honea of Butte County, Calif., lowered the death toll of the Bear Fire north of Sacramento to nine, saying that deputies had mistakenly identified an anatomical model of a skeleton as human remains. Three new deaths in Oregon were reported on Friday: Officials in Marion County located two additional victims from the Beachie Creek Fire east of Salem, and crews found a victim in a residence within the perimeter of the Holiday Farm Fire east of Eugene. ![]() Andrew Phelps, director of the Oregon Office of Emergency Management, said mass casualties were a possibility “based on what we know and the numbers of structures that have been lost.” But tragedy has already befallen some, with towns like Talent and Phoenix all but obliterated.
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