Deadly Northern California wildfire claims more lives

Redding: Three more people have died in a devastating wildfire in Northern California as it continued to spread on Saturday, threatening new communities as firefighters struggle to keep up.

The cost of climate change: Sherry Bledsoe, left, cries
next to her sister, Carla, outside the sheriff's office
 after hearing news that Sherry's children, James
 and Emily, and grandmother, Melody Bledsoe, were
killed in the fire on Saturday.

Sherry Bledsoe said her two children, 5-year-old James Roberts and 4-year-old Emily Roberts, and her 70-year-old grandmother, Melody Bledsoe, were killed. Their deaths brought the total number of people killed in the Carr fire to five. A firefighter and a bulldozer operator have also died.

Redding police confirmed that they had received a missing persons report on Bledsoe and the two children.

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