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- A wildfire that roared with little warning into a Northern California city claimed two lives as thousands of people scrambled to escape.
- The blaze leveled at least 500 structures in and around the city of Redding and was threatening nearly 5,000 more Friday. Entire neighborhoods have been left smoldering, and 37,000 people were under evacuation orders.
- Fire officials warned that the blaze would probably burn deeper into urban areas before there was any hope of containing it.
REDDING, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire that roared with little warning into a Northern California city claimed two lives as thousands of people scrambled to escape before the walls of flames descended from forested hills onto their neighborhoods, leaving at least 500 structures destroyed in its wake, officials said Friday.
Residents who gathered their belongings in haste described a chaotic and congested getaway as the embers blew up to a mile ahead of flames and the fire leaped across the wide Sacramento River and torched subdivisions in Redding, a city of 92,000 about 100 miles south of the Oregon border.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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