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    At least 2 dead, scores of homes lost as fire sweeps through Redding, Calif.

    by Joseph Serna, Phil Willon, John Myers and Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, Los Angeles Times Jul 27, 2018 5 minutes

    REDDING, Calif. - A destructive wildfire in far Northern California nearly doubled in size overnight, killing at least two people - including a city firefighter - and burning numerous homes in Redding as residents ran for their lives and firefighters found it impossible to battle the wall of flames.

    The Carr fire has destroyed 65 homes and damaged 55 others, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Friday. Those numbers are expected to rise.

    The blaze, driven east by 30 mph winds, hopscotched into subdivisions Thursday night and Friday morning. Officials said hundreds of homes were threatened as winds pushed the fire into the community.

    It was a chaotic scene across Redding, a city of 90,000 people about 100 miles from the Oregon border, as towering flames whipped along the horizon and evacuation orders expanded by the hour

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