The latest: Official: Several hundred structures destroyed.
The latest: Official: Several hundred structures destroyed.
The latest in California wildfires (all local times):
5 pm.
A California fire officer says he has reports of several hundred structures that have been destroyed in a northern California city devastated by a forest fire, but officials say they will not have an exact count until they can enter the area.
Butte County CalFire chief Darren Read said on Thursday that the destruction in the city of Paradise could amount to more than a thousand structures. Officials have ordered the city of approximately 27,000 people who are 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco to evacuate.
An AP photographer found businesses and homes level or burning, including a liquor store and a gas station.
California interim governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in the area.
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4:30 pm.
A California fire officer says a forest fire in northern California has claimed a significant number of structures and has injured two firefighters and several civilians.
Butte County CalFire chief Darren Read provided the update at a press conference on Thursday about the fire in the city of Paradise.
The fire has consumed more than 26 square miles (69 square kilometers) and has forced residents of the city to evacuate. The city of about 27,000 people is 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
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4 p.m.
A California fire officer says people are trapped in a town in northern California that was evacuated due to a wildfire.
The captain of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection of California, John Gaddie, said the crews remained focused on Thursday to help people out of the city of Paradise. The fire has consumed more than 26 square miles (69 square kilometers) and has forced residents of the city to evacuate. The city of about 27,000 people is 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
Gaddie said he was aware of four or five wounded, but not deaths. He said the rapidly moving flames forced the fire crews to shelter the people in a Walgreens and other places until the flames passed through.
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3:45 p.m.
A Southern California university is being evacuated due to a fast-growing wildfire that has engulfed the school in smoke.
California State University, Channel Islands, says the Thursday afternoon evacuation of the 7,000-student campus is due to poor air quality.
The Ventura County Fire Department also ordered the evacuation of some communities in the path of the fire, which occurred a few miles from the massive slaughter site on Wednesday night at a Thousand Oaks bar.
A second wildfire in Southern California is also burning just northwest of the section of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles.
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3:35 p.m.
Evacuations are being ordered as Santa Ana's strong winds fuel a wildfire in Southern California a few miles from the mass shooting site in the city of Thousand Oaks.
The fire broke out on Thursday afternoon and the Ventura County Fire Department quickly ordered the evacuation of the Camarillo Springs community and a caravan park when the fire went off in the US. UU 101
The main artery has been closed and the cars and trucks try to turn around to get away from the flames.
More than 160 firefighters have been sent and eight tankers have been ordered.
The gusty winds of Santa Ana blow from the interior to the coast and have been involved in the spread of many of the worst forest fires in the region.
A large fire is also burning several hours north of San Francisco.
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3:20 p.m.
Pacific Gas & Electric Company says it cut off power to some customers and suspended natural gas service to a northern California city due to a wildfire.
PG & E spokesman Paul Moreno said that about 34,000 customers in Butte and Plumas counties do not have electricity. The fire has consumed more than 26 square miles (69 square kilometers) and has forced residents of the city of Paradise to evacuate. The city of about 27,000 people is 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
Air quality officials in the San Francisco Bay area say the fire is sending smoke to the area, and that children, the elderly and people with breathing problems should take precautions. The sky was cloudy in San Francisco.
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3 p.m.
In southern California, a wind-driven brush fire has burned near structures in the Newbury Park area of Ventura County.
The Ventura County Fire Department says the fire has grown rapidly to 100 acres (40 hectares).
More than 160 firefighters have been sent and eight tankers have been ordered.
The misty winds of Santa Ana blow through Ventura and the neighboring counties of Los Angeles.
In northern California, thousands of people have fled a fire that has destroyed homes near the town of Paradise in Butte County.
The fire is about 5 miles from the site of a shooting Wednesday night in a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, in which 12 people were killed.
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2:30 pm.
California interim governor Gavin Newsom is declaring a state of emergency in northern California due to a dangerous wildfire that has destroyed homes and forced thousands of people to flee.
Newsom issued the statement for Butte County on Thursday, as fast-moving fire continues to burn around the city of Paradise, about 180 kilometers northeast of San Francisco.
Newsom is becoming the executive director, while Governor Jerry Brown is out of state. Newsom was chosen this week to succeed the so-called Brown.
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2:15 p.m.
A spokeswoman for a hospital in northern California that was evacuated due to a fast-moving forest fire says 20 patients had to return to the facility due to traffic jams.
Feather River Adventist Hospital spokeswoman Jill Kinney said Thursday clinics and other facilities had been burned or damaged, but that the main hospital was intact.
The hospital is located in the city of Paradise, about 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco. At least 27,000 people in the city were ordered to flee.
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2:10 p.m.
A California fire officer says a rapidly moving forest fire in northern California has destroyed structures and injured civilians.
The captain of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection of California, John Gaddie, said on Thursday he did not know how many structures were destroyed and that he did not know the extent of the injuries.
At least 27,000 people in the city of Paradise about 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco were ordered to flee.
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1:15 p.m.
A woman who evacuated a fire in northern California says people abandoned their vehicles to escape the fire and held babies and pets while they escaped.
Gina Oviedo said there was fire everywhere when she left the city of Paradise about 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco on Thursday.
Oviedo described a devastating scene, saying that the houses were engulfed in flames and utility posts collapsed. She said that people left their vehicles and ran when they started hearing explosions.
At least 27,000 people in Paradise were ordered to flee.
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12:55 p.m.
Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea says a fire in northern California is a "very dangerous and serious situation."
He is confirming reports that people had to abandon their vehicles while trying to flee the fast moving fire.
He says the agency has few resources, but officials are "doing everything possible to get people out of the affected areas."
At least 27,000 people in the city of Paradise, about 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, were ordered to flee on Thursday.
He says he wants people to know that if they can evacuate, they need to evacuate.
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12:10 a.m.
Butte County Sheriff's spokeswoman Miranda Bowersox says 27,000 people in the city of Paradise have been ordered to flee a forest fire in northern California.
The fire started on early Thursday.
El Paraiso is a city of approximately 27,000 inhabitants 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
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11:50 a.m.
Shelley Freeman says his family and friends rushed to evacuate in northern California when a moving fire was approaching.
She says she heard from a friend that people, horses and dogs had congregated in the parking lot of a Kmart in the city of Paradise. The friend who waited there with dogs in her car described all the trees around the store as in flames.
Freeman says that her friend described that she was surrounded by explosions in the parking lot and that soon she could not see the fire because of all the smoke.
Freeman says he has had trouble communicating with family and friends who live in the area because phone lines do not work. The ones she has heard say that the roads are paralyzed.
Freeman says that she is scared by everyone and that she feels helpless from afar.
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10:50 a.m .:
A hospital in northern California says it has evacuated its patients due to a fast-moving forest fire.
Adventist Health Feather River said in a Twitter post on Thursday that it is being transported to nearby hospitals. Hospital officials have not returned calls from The Associated Press about the evacuation.
The hospital is located in Paradise, a city of approximately 27,000 inhabitants 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
Chico's Business Register reports that a retirement home and Ponderosa Elementary School were also evacuated.
Patients evacuated from the hospital are being taken to hospitals throughout the region.
The fire started around 6:30 a.m.
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10:20 a.m.
Shary Bernacett says she and her husband tried to get people to leave the mobile home park they drive in Paradise, California, with only a few minutes to evacuate when a forest fire approached the east side of the city.
Bernacett said she and her husband "knocked on doors, shouted and shouted" to alert as many residents of 53 mobile homes and recreational vehicles as possible to leave the area on Thursday morning when authorities ordered the area was evacuated.
She and her husband grabbed their dog, jumped into their truck and drove through 12-foot-high flames before getting safely on Highway 99.
Bernacett says the fire reached the Feather River Hospital, about three miles east of the mobile home park.
She says that the air is black with smoke and ash.
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10 a.m .:
A forest fire in northern California has grown to almost 8 square miles (20 square kilometers) as officials rush to evacuate residents.
Tina Greer says the Paradise nursing home where her disabled son lives with five other patients is being evacuated, but it takes time to pack the medical equipment and patients' medicine. His 25-year-old son has cerebral palsy, needs a wheelchair to move around and is fed through a tube.
Greer says the heavy ashes are falling in Chico, about 14 miles (22 kilometers) west of the fire.
The Butte County Sheriff's Office says Thursday an evacuation order was issued for the areas of Paradise, a city of approximately 27,000 residents, 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
Greer works for a telephone answering service that handles numerous phone calls to Feather River Hospital, which he was ordered to evacuate and does not answer calls.
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08:30 a.m.
Authorities in northern California have ordered mandatory evacuations in a rural area where a wildfire has grown to 1,000 acres (405 hectares) amid hot, windy weather.
The Butte County Sheriff's Office says Thursday an evacuation order was issued for the areas of Paradise, a city of approximately 27,000 residents, 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
The California Highway Patrol closed Highway 70 near the fire and urged motorists to avoid the area.
Firefighters say firefighters are working to access the area and that the fire continues to spread.
The National Weather Service issued red flag warnings for fire hazards in many areas of the state, saying that low humidity and strong winds were expected to continue through Friday night.
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