The number of confirmed casualties as a result of the wildfires raging in California has risen to 42.
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The figure means that the blaze is the deadliest in the history of the state.
Thousands of homes and other buildings have been completely destroyed, mostly in the town of Paradise, where most of the fatalities occurred.
Just over five thousand firefighters are battling the blazes.
