Updated Thursday, June 27, 2019. Originally published Dec. 7, 2018.
Not long ago — but an eternity in the lives of tens of thousands of our Northern California neighbors — fire raged across the ridges and canyons of Butte County, devouring whole towns and sweeping away dozens of lives.
In the weeks after the Camp Fire raced through Paradise, Concow and Magalia — effectively destroying those communities in a single day, Nov. 8, 2018 — an army of 10,000 search and recovery personnel combed through the ruins looking for those who didn’t, couldn’t make it out.
Butte County officials say the searchers located the remains of 84 people and that one other resident died later of his injuries. The fatalities make the Camp Fire by far the deadliest wildfire in California history. So far, authorities have positively identified and released the names of 78 of those recovered.
Below is a list including all those officially confirmed as having died in the fire along with names of others named by relatives in media reports, identified in published obituaries or included in legal filings. The audio above is a reading of names by KQED staff members as a gesture of remembrance to the communities devastated by the fire and to those grieving the loved ones they lost.
We will update these resources as more names and information become available.
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