A seventh person died in a wildfire in the US state of California on Saturday as a couple of other fast-growing wildfires expanded and continued to spread and President Donald Trump declared a “major disaster.”
More residents in northern California were ordered to evacuate their homes as weary firefighters endured high temperatures and gusting winds.
The Carr fire, about 162 miles (261 km) north of Sacramento, claimed the life of a power company lineman Saturday.
The fire is one of the most destructive in California history and had already killed six people, including a great-grandmother and two children, and a firefighter and bulldozer operator.
Two other blazes collectively called the Mendocino Complex burned in Mendocino, Lake and Colusa counties, about 90 miles north of San Francisco.
The Mendocino Complex fires cover more than two-thirds the size of sprawling Los Angeles. They have forced the evacuation of more than 20,000…