The death toll in California's massive McKinney Fire has risen by two, authorities say.
- "This brings the confirmed fatality number to four," reads a statement released by the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office. "At this time there are no unaccounted for persons." The two additional bodies were discovered in separate homes along State Route 96, sheriff's officials say. The first two were found Sunday inside a charred vehicle near the Klamath River, authorities previously reported. "It's really tragic when a fire gets up and moves this fast and basically takes out a community," says Mike Lindbery, a rep for the fire's incident management team. "And that's what happened in the Klamath River area."
- Since it began last Friday, the McKinney fire has scorched more than 88 square miles of land, destroying at least 100 homes and businesses, authorities say.
- Why does California see so many wildfires every year?