| | Mark Ghilarducci, the director of California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, provided the figure at a news briefing Friday. Although lives have been claimed, the number of deaths is not known. Earlier, a fire in Southern California jumped the U.S. 101 Freeway, threatening Malibu, while in Northern California, a separate fire destroyed the town of Paradise.
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