2 young children and their great-grandmother died in a rapidly growing California wildfire, bringing the death toll to 5

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• The death count from a rapidly growing Northern California wildfire rose to five Saturday.
• Two young children and their great-grandmother who had been unaccounted for were confirmed dead.
• They were among more than a dozen people reported missing after the furious wind-driven blaze took residents by surprise and leveled several neighborhoods.
• Two firefighters were also killed in the blaze, including a bulldozer operator who was helping clear vegetation in the wildfire’s path.

REDDING, Calif. (AP) — The death count from a rapidly growing Northern California wildfire rose to five Saturday after two young children and their great-grandmother who had been unaccounted for were confirmed dead.

“My babies are dead,” Sherry Bledsoe said through tears after she and family members met with Shasta County sheriff’s deputies.

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