Death toll rises to 56 in Northern California's Camp Fire; missing climb to 297

Authorities made public a list of 297 people still unaccounted for Wednesday night as they announced that the number of people who had been killed in the deadliest wildfire in California history had grown to 56. Butte County sheriff's officials earlier in the day published a list of 101 missing people. At a news conference early Wednesday night, Sheriff Kory Honea said 29 further names would be added later Wednesday night, for a total of 130. But when the updated list (PDF) was published late Wednesday evening, it bore 297 names. The sheriff's office said no one was available to discuss why so many more people were listed as missing in the intervening three hours. Meanwhile, eight more sets of human remains were found Wednesday, the sheriff's office said, and 7,600 homes have been destroyed since the Camp Fire ignited last Thursday morning. The fire had consumed 135,000 acres by Wednesday night and remained only 35 percent contained...MORE