The deadliest wildfire in California history, which destroyed the mountain town of Paradise and killed at least 85 people, is now 100 per cent contained, according to state fire officials. The number of people still missing from the Camp Fire, which was burning north of San Francisco, dropped to 249 on Sunday, the Butte County Sheriff's Office said. The Camp Fire started on Nov. 8 and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes and burned more than 62,000 hectares — an area five times the size of San Francisco. (Noah Berger/Associated Press)Last week, five to eight centimetres of rain fell and turned ash from the thousands of destroyed homes into slurry, complicating the work of finding bodies reduced to bone fragments. The town of Paradise was a popular destination for retirees, with people aged 65 or older accounting for a quarter of its 27,000 residents.

Source: CBC News November 25, 2018 16:32 UTC