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A health care facility in Paradise, California, is consumed by flames from the Camp Fire. -
Steven P. Lobdell, a resident of Paradise, California, places American flags along his neighbors’ sidewalks on Nov. 11. -
NASA satellite images show smoke engulfing the San Francisco Bay Area. -
Smoke from wildfires obscures the San Francisco skyline behind the Golden Gate Bridge on Nov. 9. -
Firefighters try to keep flames from a home from spreading to a neighboring apartment complex as they battle the Camp Fire. -
Smoke rises next to a power line tower in Big Bend, California, after the Camp Fire moved through the area. -
The Camp Fire rips through Paradise. It quickly charred 18,000 acres and destroyed dozens of homes in a matter of hours. -
A bulldozer operator cuts a fire break west of Paradise. -
While evacuating patients, employees at the Feather River Hospital work in a triage area in Paradise. -
Traffic builds as people evacuate from the Camp Fire. -
A decimated neighborhood of Pentz Road in Paradise on Nov. 11. As of Monday, Nov. 12, the death toll was 29 people.
The Camp Fire, located in Northern California, has become one of the state’s most destructive fires to-date. According to Monday’s numbers, the fire has killed 29 people either in their homes or while trying to evacuate, while hundreds of thousands of residents have been displaced. The death toll is expected to rise as crews begin to search for the missing. As of Monday afternoon, the fire was just 25 percent contained and had destroyed more than 6,000 structures, according to the San Francisco Chronicle’s fire tracker map. In southern California, the Woolsey Fire has resulted in two other fatalities, and burned 91,571 acres — that fire is 20 percent contained. As climate change intensifies in the coming years, the likelihood of these types of catastrophes are expected to increase.
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