The Latest: Body found in blaze burning in Sierra Nevada foothills in Northern California
MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The latest on wildfires raging in drought-stricken California (all times local):
3:30 p.m.
Authorities say a body has been found in a wildfire burning in northern California’s Sierra Nevada foothills.
The Calaveras County Sheriff’s Department says the body was found Wednesday in an area burned by a wildfire 60 miles southeast of Sacramento.
Sgt. Anthony Eberhardt says it was found at a burned-out home in the Mokelumne Hill area.
The blaze in Amador and Calaveras counties has destroyed at least 233 homes. It has charred more than 110 square miles and was 45 per cent contained Wednesday.
Elsewhere in Northern California, cadaver dogs were used Wednesday to search for a former police reporter and several other people who authorities fear were killed in another fast-moving wildfire.
That wildfire was in rural Lake County, less than 100 miles north of San Francisco.
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