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With the death toll from California's wildfire at more than 70 and 1,000 still unaccounted for, President Trump on Saturday will tour the devastation and meet with state leaders

 Trump was expected to tour fire-ravaged areas in and around the community of Paradise in Northern California early Saturday before arriving in Southern California in the afternoon

The Camp and Woolsey fires combined have burned more than 250,000 acres and destroyed more than 10,000 structures

Advertisement  "Many more people are missing than anyone thought possible," Trump said before departing for California

"I wanna be with the firefighters and the FEMA first responders."  The visit will be both a presidential and political moment for Trump, who regularly criticizes the deep blue state and is highly unpopular here

Trump was roundly criticized last week for erroneously blaming the fires on poor forest management and threatening to cut off funding to California

 But in recent days, the president has offered more conciliatory comments about the wildfires, saying Tuesday "we mourn for the lives lost and we pray for the victims of the California wildfires

" Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday pledged to work with Trump to help California and will meet with the president along with Gov

-elect Gavin Newsom, who, like Brown, has argued that climate change has worsened the fire toll in California

 "Now is the time to pull together for the people of California," Brown said Twitter Friday

 Trump responded on Twitter: "Thank you @JerryBrownGov. Look forward to joining you and @GavinNewsom tomorrow in California

We are with you!"  In an interview on Fox News, Trump said climate change might have contributed to the fires but maintained that forest management policies must change

 "Maybe it contributes a little bit,"he said of climate change. "The big problem we have is management…

You need forest management, it has to be, I'm not saying that in a negative way. I'm just saying the facts, and I've really learned a lot

"  Trump told Fox he saw firefighters removing dry brush from the fire scenes. "This should have been all raked out," he said

 In Butte County, eight more bodies were found Friday, and the number of people unaccounted for jumped from 631 to 1,011 as authorities continued to comb through 911 calls, emails and other reports of missing people

 Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said, however, that the list of the missing is dynamic and may include people who were counted twice, whose names were misspelled or who may not know they were reported missing

 The Camp fire, already the state's worst fire on record, has burned 146,000 acres and destroyed 12,263 structures

Officials said it could take weeks to complete the search for victims and identify them

Thousands of residents are without homes and living in shelters and tent cities.  The Woolsey fire in Southern California burned more than 500 structures and killed three people

 This will be just Trump's second visit to the nation's most populous state since his election

His first California visit, which he made in March to inspect border wall prototypes in the San Diego area and to attend a fundraiser in the Beverly Park home of Edward Glazer, the co-chairman of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers professional football team, came later in his term than for any White House occupant since Franklin D

Roosevelt.  Trump has had a particularly combative relationship with California, over environmental, immigration and other policies

The state's Democratic leaders, including Gov. Jerry Brown, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, Rep

Adam Schiff of Burbank and Rep. Maxine Waters of Los Angeles, have been frequent Trump targets and, to varying extents, the faces of the resistance to him

Advertisement  Last weekend he wrote, "There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor

Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests

Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!"  Experts called the tweet uninformed. Many politicians and residents called it insensitive

 "This is not a time for partisanship," Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom responded. "This is a time for coordinating relief and response and lifting those in need up

"  The president of California Professional Firefighters, Brian Rice, called the tweet "ill-informed, ill-timed and demeaning to those who are suffering as well as the men and women on the front lines

"  "At this moment, thousands of our brother and sister firefighters are putting their lives on the line to protect the lives and property of thousands," Rice added

"Some of them are doing so even as their own homes lay in ruins. In my view, this shameful attack on California is an attack on all our courageous men and women on the front lines

"  Times staff writers Nicole Santa Cruz in Paradise and Noah Bierman in Washington contributed to this report

 8:30 a.m.: This article was updated with new comments from President Trump.  This article was originally posted at 7:45 a

m.

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71 Dead, More Than 1,000 People Unaccounted For In California Wildfires - Duration: 1:58.

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President Trump Visits Neighborhoods Destroyed By California Wildfires - Duration: 1:37.

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Less Than 24 Hours After Woman Survives Borderline Bar Shooting, California Wildfires Destroy Her Ho - Duration: 6:12.

 Deseriee Edman survived two unimaginable tragedies in less than 24 hours.  Deseriee was forced to flee her family home from the California wildfires just one day after escaping the mass shooting inside the Borderline Bar & Grill

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 "Two near-death experiences that you just don't expect," she told locals news station KCBS of the horror, admitting she's still processing what happened

"I'm trying to stay strong as possible for my family and my friends. And I'm trying to look at everything as positive as I can in these types of situations

"  Deseriee was spending time at the Thousand Oaks bar during its weekly "College Country Night" on Nov

7 when a Marine Corps veteran entered and opened fire. A dozen people were slain in the mass shooting include a college freshman, a seasoned law enforcement officer, a recent college graduate and an aspiring Army recruit whom his father called his "best friend

"  Shots were first reported at about 11:20 p.m., and left a dozen others wounded in the attack

The gunman was found dead in the bar of suicide.  While Deseriee was able to survive the shooting, the following day, the Woolsey Fire — one of three deadly fires that broke out Nov

8 in California — engulfed her Malibu home in flames. She and her family were able to evacuate in the knick of time

 "The fire was everywhere," Deseriee's mother Carmen Edman told KCBS, explaining that their property burned to the ground

 "I was in panic mode since Wednesday night, since that phone call, and stress levels were off the charts

"  High winds, low humidity and dry vegetation have stoked the fires, causing them to quickly spread throughout the state

 As of Saturday morning, the Woolsey Fire has traveled 98,362 acres, CalFire reported, leveling 836 buildings and taking the lives ofpeople

 It is 82 percent contained.  The Camp Fire, burning in Northern California, has been far more ruinous, CalFire reported

At just 55 percent contained as of Saturday, it's already destroyed 48,000 acres of land in Northern California; flatted 9,844 residences, 336 commercial and 2,076 other buildings; and taken the lives of a total of 71 people

 That's more than double the number from the second-deadliest wildfire in state history — the 1933 Griffith Park fire in Los Angeles, per Mercury

And there are still 1,011 people missing.  Luckily, the Hill Fire was 100 perfect contained as of Friday night, CalFire reported

It was also ignited in Ventura County and destroyed 4,531 acres of property, coincidentally near the Borderline Bar and Grill

 As tough as it has been on the Edman family, all have appeared to remain positive

 "The fact is we made it out alive, and my sister survived and we're here," Deseriee's sister, Destiny Malibu, told KCBS

 "Twelve people didn't go home," Carmen continued, specifically mentioning Ventura County Sheriff's Sgt

Ron Helus, whom she credited for saving Deseriee's life. "Ron didn't go home, neither did Justin, Christina… all these people that were there

Good people. It's really tragic that this happened in our city — in Borderline, and that Ron had to pass

It's just tragic."  Helus, a 54-year-old sergeant with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, was shot and killed along with 11 other people at the Borderline Bar & Grill

Authorities said he was shot multiple times as he entered the bar and later died at the hospital

He leaves behind his wife and their son, Jordan.  "He went into save lives, to save other people," Sheriff Geoff Dean told reporters at the time

"He was totally committed, he gave his all, and tonight, as I told his wife, he died a hero

"

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Trump tours fire-ravaged California towns - Duration: 0:52.

U.S President Donald Trump on Saturday toured some of the towns in northern California damaged

by the deadliest wildfire in the state's history.

He met with people affected by the disaster and praised the work of firefighters and local

officials.

Looking around the town of Paradise, California, he took in the devastation, houses turned

to ashes and ravaged forests.

President Trump reiterated the need for forest management to prevent wildfires.

He also said state and federal authorities would get the destruction cleaned up and take

care of the forest floors.

The Camp Fire, named for the area where it started, has burned since November 8th, so

far killing at least 71 people with another one thousand missing.

As of Saturday, the fire was 55 percent contained.

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California is still fighting fire as death toll exceeds 70 - Duration: 3:16.

>> Sreenivasan: THE CAMP FIRE'S

DEVASTATION IN AND AROUND

PARADISE, CALIFORNIA, MEANS MANY

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE

HOMELESS.

SOME ARE IN SHELTERS, OTHERS

WITH FAMILY OR FRIENDS, AND

STILL OTHERS ARE CAMPED OUT IN

TENTS.

FOR THE LATEST, WE TURN NOW TO

JULIA SULEK, A REPORTER FOR THE

"SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS."

SHE JOINS US VIA SKYPE FROM

CHICO, CALIFORNIA.

FIRST, TELL US WHERE YOU'RE

STANDING.

>> Reporter: I'M STANDING IN

FRONT OF WHAT THEY'RE CALLING A

TENT CITY ON THE EDGE OF THE...

OF A WALMART PARKING LOT HERE.

PEOPLE WITH NO PLACE TO GO HAVE

PUT UP TENTS HERE.

THEY'VE BEEN WELL TAKEN CARE OF

BY... BY WALMART AND LOTS OF

DONORS.

BUT THEY'RE ASKING THAT THE TENT

CITY BE BROKEN UP AND PEOPLE GO

TO SHELTERS.

THE RAIN'S COMING NEXT WEEK, AND

IT'S REALLY COLD OUT HERE.

>> Sreenivasan: AND WHAT KIND

OF SHELTER CAPACITY EXISTS IN

THE AREA?

IS FEMA ON THE GROUND?

AND WHAT ARE THEY DOING?

>> Reporter: FEMA IS HERE.

THEY HAVE SET UP IN AN OLD

SEARS, EMPTY SEARS BUILDING.

LOTS OF SERVICES FOR PEOPLE.

WITH EVERY DISASTER, THE

CHURCHES HAVE OPENED THEIR

DOORS, THE ELKS CLUB.

THERE'S ENOUGH ROOM FOR PEOPLE.

.>> Sreenivasan: THERE'S QUITE

A BIT OF FOCUS THIS WEEK NOW,

LATER IN THE WEEK NOW, ABOUT THE

SOURCE OF THIS AND WHETHER OR

NOT P.G.& E., THE UTILITY

COMPANY THERE, SHOULD BE HELD

RESPONSIBLE.

WHAT'S THE CASE AGAINST THEM?

>> IN PREVIOUS FIRES, THERE

CERTAINLY HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMERS

THAT HAVE BLOWN AND WINDS THAT

HAVE KNOCKED THEM DOWN AND

STARTED FIRES.

THERE'S ALREADY BEEN A LAWSUIT

FILED AGAINST P.G.& E.

AND ANOTHER INTERESTING THING:

AFTER THE FIRES IN SANTA ROSA

LAST YEAR, P.G.& E. STARTED A

SYSTEM WHERE, WHEN THEY HAD

THESE RED FLAG WARNINGS AND

THE... THE WINDS GOT OVER A

CERTAIN SPEED AND THE HUMIDITY

WAS LOW, THAT THEY WOULD TURN

OFF POWER.

AND THEY ACTUALLY WERE WARNING

PEOPLE THAT THEY WERE PLANNING

TO TURN OFF POWER IN THE

PARADISE AREA.

THEY DIDN'T.

BUT, OF COURSE, IN THE MEANTIME,

AS PEOPLE WERE GETTING THESE

NOTICES, YOU KNOW, LOCALS WERE

COMPLAINING, "HEY, I'VE GOT A,

YOU KNOW, FREEZER FULL OF MEAT,"

OR, YOU KNOW, "DO YOU REALLY

HAVE TO TURN THEM OFF?"

SO, IT WAS JUST AN INTERESTING

DYNAMIC OF PEOPLE NOT REALLY

REALIZING WHAT WAS COMING.

>> Sreenivasan: IN TERMS OF

THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ARE

STILL MISSING AND UNACCOUNTED

FOR, NEW YORKERS ARE FAMILIAR

WITH IT AFTER 9/11-- OR I SHOULD

SAY THE COUNTRY IS FAMILIAR WITH

IT-- BUT YOU SEE THESE BULLETIN

BOARDS AND JUST THESE INCREDIBLY

EMOTIONAL PLEAS TO TRY TO FIND

RELATIVES.

>> Reporter: OH, IT'S JUST...

IT'S SO, SO AWFUL.

AND I'M TELLING YOU I'VE BEEN AT

THESE PRESS CONFERENCES WITH THE

SHERIFF EVERY NIGHT, AND HE GETS

UP WITH THE GRIM NEWS, AND IT

GOES UP BY EIGHT OR TEN EVERY

DAY.

I SPOKE WITH A SEARCH-AND-RESCUE

GUY WHO'S UP THERE WITH, YOU

KNOW, HUGE TEAMS.

LIKE, 600 PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY

LOOKING FOR THE REMAINS OF THE

DEAD.

AND IT'S HORRINGIFYING, AND THE

SCALE OF IT.

I MEAN, THIS IS DOUBLE, ALMOST

TRIPLE WHAT... WHAT FORMER

FIRES... THE MOST DEVASTATING

FIRES EVER.

SO, I ACTUALLY GOT A CALL LAST

NIGHT FROM A MAN WHO WAS MISSING

HIS MOTHER AND STEPFATHER.

I HAD BEEN IN TOUCH WITH HIM

EARLIER IN THE WEEK.

AND HE TOLD ME THAT HE GOT A

CALL THAT HIS MOTHER AND

STEPFATHER WERE FOUND DEAD IN

THEIR HOME.

AND THAT'S, YOU KNOW, WHAT, TEN

DAYS LATER.

IT'S JUST... JUST HORRIFYING.

>> Sreenivasan: JULIA SULEK, A

REPORTER FOR THE "SAN JOSE

MERCURY NEWS," JOINING US VIA

SKYPE LIVE FROM CHICO,

CALIFORNIA, THANKS SO MUCH.

>> YOU'RE WELCOME, HARI.

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Assisting Those Fighting the California Wildfires on This Week @NASA – November 17, 2018 - Duration: 3:29.

Data from space are informing those fighting the California wildfires …

A U.S. commercial resupply mission launches to the space station …

And showcasing the powerhouse for our Orion spacecraft … a few of the stories to tell

you about – This Week at NASA!

Satellites in space have captured imagery and data of wildfires that have continued

to plague California — including the Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles and the Camp Fire in

Northern California.

The Camp Fire, which began Nov. 8, has led become the deadliest wildfire in the state's

history.

It has also become the most destructive wildfire in California history, with a vast number

of structures destroyed by the blaze.

Our Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis team used the satellite data to produce damage

maps to help officials and first responders identify heavily damaged areas and allocate

resources as needed.

On Nov. 17, our commercial partner, Northrop Grumman launched its Cygnus cargo spacecraft

to the International Space Station on the company's 10th commercial resupply mission

for NASA.

The Cygnus, dubbed the SS John Young in honor of the late astronaut, launched from our Wallops

Flight Facility in Virginia with about 7,400 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware

for the crew aboard the orbiting outpost.

A Nov. 16 event at our Kennedy Space Center, in Florida showcased the recently arrived

European Service Module for our Orion spacecraft – which is provided by ESA, the European

Space Agency – and highlighted our history of cooperation and collaboration with ESA

for deep space exploration.

"This is a momentous occasion, where we're going to have the opportunity to fly into

deep space, and the European Service Module is a huge element of this architecture."

The service module will power, propel, and cool Orion on Exploration Mission-1, its first

uncrewed flight test with our Space Launch System rocket.

The first group of restored Historic Mission Control consoles, which helped land humans

on the Moon, arrived recently at Houston's Ellington Field, near our Johnson Space Center,

and were unveiled before Apollo alumni, NASA personnel, and media.

This event marks a major milestone in the ongoing restoration of Historic Mission Control,

a National Historic Landmark, and its preservation for future explorers.

Expedition 58 – the International Space Station's next crew – conducted final

qualification training in Russia in preparation for its flight to orbit.

Our Anne McClain, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space

Agency are targeted for launch Dec. 3 for a six-month mission on the station.

We began research flights off the coast of Galveston, Texas, in support of the Quiet

Supersonic Flights 2018 series.

The project uses F-A/18 aircraft flying at supersonic speeds, to test community response

to the "quiet thump" technique designed to reduce loud sonic booms typically associated

with supersonic flight.

The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane we are developing will be able to demonstrate

quiet supersonic technologies in straight and level flight over a larger area than the

F-A/18.

That's what's up this week @NASA …

For more on these and other stories follow us on the web at nasa.gov/twan

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Trump arrives in California to survey wildfire damage - Duration: 3:42.

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California fires bring upheaval to utilities as they face massive liabilities - Duration: 9:34.

The worst fires in recorded California history promise to reshape the state's utilities as Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison face billions of dollars in potential liabilities and growing calls to overhaul their systems to better prevent wildfires

 Power suppliers in California have faced increasing financial pressure over the last decade as a series of deadly fires has been linked to system malfunctions, usually caused by powerful winds

Advertisement  But the November fires — which killed at least 71 people in Northern California and at least three in Southern California — have raised larger questions about the utilities' operations and how much of the costs for fire damage and system improvements will be shouldered by ratepayers

 State regulators say they are investigating not just the fires, but in the case of PG&E, also "the corporate governance, structure, and operation to determine the best path forward

" This has fueled new demands from critics who want the state to break up the utility

 PG&E itself has offered a dire outlook if it is found responsible for the Camp fire in Paradise, Calif

, saying it would exceed its insurance coverage.  Investigations into the cause of the Camp and Woolsey fires are continuing, but both utilities have hinted that their distribution system could be a factor in the potential causes

 That prospect sent their stocks tumbling and sparked questions about their exposure because of a gap in a new wildfire mitigation law that the Legislature approved this year to help PG&E deal with massive liabilities from the 2017 wine country fires

PG&E's stocks recovered a bit Friday as regulators question whether bankruptcy was a certainty

 A broader question also lingered on the minds of energy experts and analysts this week: In the state's volatile wildfire environment, how can these large utilities still run their businesses amid a continued and perhaps existential threat of financial exposure?  "There's a lot of uncertainty," said Lucas Davis, a business and technology professor at UC Berkeley, who suggested the costs could reach into the tens of billions of dollars

"The potential liability could force these companies into bankruptcy."  While utility issues have been linked to some destructive fires in recent years, they are not leading cause of wildfires

Other major causes include lightning, arson and ignition caused by vehicles. Improving the fire resilience of utility lines would help

 Experts say the recent spate of fires has many causes, including climate change — which is bringing higher temperature and drier brush — as well as homes being built on the wildland-urban interface

 Both companies say they are cooperating with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection investigation, which could last months

They also said that power incident reports filed with the California Public Utility Commission this week that noted power outages in the vicinity of the fire origins were preliminary and precautionary

 Still, industry experts predict a perilous road ahead for the utilities, especially PG&E, which is still grappling with damages related to a string of destructive wine country blazes last year in which investigators identified power lines as the spark

Its "safety culture" also remains under investigation by regulators, who signaled Thursday that scrutiny would continue

 In the short term, companies such as PG&E must worry about the most recent fires, given that a new law designed to ease the wildfire threat and reduce their financial liability doesn't take effect until next year

Advertisement  That's when regulators would be granted the power to determine whether a utility acted reasonably when its operations were linked to a fire — a major change that could reduce damages

 But it leaves the existing system in place for 2018 and, as a result, leaves utilities vulnerable under the practice of "inverse condemnation," which says a utility can be forced to pay millions of dollars without a strict finding of bad behavior at the start of a wildfire

 The effort by lawmakers also helped PG&E, in particular, by giving it the ability to ease its cost burden by financing its damages over time — a flexibility that might not exist for the potentially staggering damages this year

 A critical first step for both utilities is the state's probe into the origin of the wildfires

Investigators were expected to reconstruct the cause and spread in Butte and Ventura counties

 In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, PG&E notified investors about the risk of "significant liability" related to the Camp fire — exposure that could overwhelm its $1

4-billion wildfire insurance coverage.  Edison filed its own state incident out of "an abundance of caution" about an outage in the vicinity of the Woolsey fire's suspected origin point

California fires: In Malibu, many residents vow the community will bounce back

But some wonder whether they can afford to rebuild By Sarah Parvini Nov 17, 2018 | 3:00 AM  The new law authorizes $1 billion in public expenditures to mitigate fire risk, including forest management and incentives for brush clearing

It also requires utilities to file new plans with state regulators on how they will prevent distribution lines from causing fires

 Experts say those mitigation solutions should include more sensitive monitoring and warning systems

 "It's in their interest to gold-plate the system," said Robert McCullough, whose Oregon-based McCullough Research consults with power companies across the nation

"Nobody wants a dangerous situation like we're in now."  More sensitive monitoring could be a source of rich data, allowing real-time analysis of potential anomalies — a tree scraping a line, causing a disturbance, for example — that might expose future problems, said Alexandra von Meier, the director of energy grid research at the California Institute for Energy and Environment

 She stressed that the companies should also improve their sharing of data so that outside researchers could apply their own algorithms and machine learning to to improve the system

 Other options, in theory, include the costly and complicated process of burying power lines to protect them from the state's gusting seasonal winds, and following through with plans to shut off power lines when conditions are likely to spark wildfires

 The companies also must learn to navigate new rules from a recently enacted law that grants regulators more flexibility to assess their culpability in major fires

"Even if a utility did everything right, even if they were in no way negligent, I don't think they can ever completely rule out something like this," said von Meier, also an adjunct engineering professor at UC Berkeley

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Heartbreaking Photos Show Devastation of Camp Fire in California as Death Toll Rises to 71 - News to - Duration: 3:43.

 Fire officials confirmed the death toll for the Camp Fire disaster in California has increased to 71 casualties

 During a news conference on Friday, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea confirmed the bodies of eight people were found since Thursday evening, according to multiple local news outlets

Of those, seven people were found in Paradise and one person was found in Magalia

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 In addition, the number of missing people in California's most deadly and destructive fire is now 1,011

More than 12,000 structures have been destroyed.  On Thursday, photographer Josh Edelson captured heartbreaking images of a burned neighborhood in Paradise, a city in the northeastern Sacramento Valley that has been heavily affected by the wildfires

 Aerial views of the neighborhood show the devastation from the flames which left all the houses gutted with only its concrete foundation, blackened metal and charred remains

 The number of people who perished in the Camp Fire has more than doubled the number from the second-deadliest wildfire in state history — the 1933 Griffith Park fire in Los Angeles, according to the Mercury

 "This had to be one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had," Cal Fire firefighter Josh Smario, 23, recently told PEOPLE about the once-picturesque town

 "Standing in what used to be my house while I'm working to save the town I live in

The house I thought my son would experience his first years of his life in. Then hopping right back in the engine to go fight the blaze that took my house and my grandparents' house," Smario said

 "It wiped out all of my family's houses, but thank God they all made it out safe," he added

"It's a war zone. When you saw how many bodies didn't make it out, I could care less about the things that were lost

"  On Friday, the town of Paradise announced there will be a vigil for all those impacted by the Camp Fire

The vigil will take place on Nov. 18 from 4-7 p.m. at the First Christian Church of Chico

 Along with the Camp Fire, the Woolsey Fire in California also continues to impact those in the state

It burned through more than 98,000 acres and is 69 percent contained as of Friday, according to CalFire

 A handful of stars have lost their homes, including Kim Basinger, Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth, Neil Young, Robin Thicke, Camille Grammer and Gerard Butler

 In addition to the Woolsey Fire, the Hill Fire, located near the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks — the site of the tragic mass shooting — has burned through thousands of acres after erupting last Thursday

The blaze is now 100 percent contained, according to Cal Fire.