California Wildfires Death Toll Rises to 31; More Than 200 Missing

The death toll from the wildfires ravaging Northern and Southern California rose to 31 on Sunday with the discovery of six more bodies—but the state was bracing for even worse news. In Northern California, more than 225 people remained unaccounted for in Butte County, where the town of Paradise was essentially burned to the ground by the blaze dubbed the Camp Fire. More than 6,700 structures have been destroyed and its death toll alone has climbed to 29, making it the most destructive in 85 years of state record-keeping and tying the mark for the state’s most lethal.