The death toll in the largest wildfire in California history rose Tuesday as the remains of six additional people were found, officials said.
The human remains – which were found in Paradise, Butte County – were located in homes, Sheriff Kory Honea said at a news conference Tuesday. The discoveries bring the death toll in the Camp Fire to 48. More than 130,000 acres of land are still burning in Butte County as officiala said nearly 6,000 firefighting personnel continue to assist in the area, where 35 percent of the fire was contained. Honea revealed that among he has around 30 staff members “who are personally affected by this fire, having been evacuated from their homes, and in some cases, having lost their homes.”
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American Flag Discovered in Camp Fire
Amid the raging Camp Fire’s red glare, that Star-Spangled Banner yet waved.
Members of a search and rescue team working in wildfire-incinerated California neighborhoods found themselves living out the national anthem and discovering “our flag was still there” — the American symbol the only thing in the area not singed by the deadly blaze.
The Elk Grove Police Department was providing mutual aid in Paradise, which had been leveled after the fire erupted Thursday, when officers Katie Cooley and Julius Lewis noticed a flagpole on Ripley Lane standing tall. 
“It definitely caught my attention, it was pretty amazing to see,” Lewis told “FOX & friends.” “The house in the backdrop was completely burnt to the ground, yet the flag was still there.”
Lewis said he took a picture of the flag while he was sitting in his vehicle because he just sat there for a while looking at it.
The Camp Fire has become the deadliest blaze in state history, with at least 42 people confirmed dead. Coroner search teams, many accompanied by a chaplain, have fanned out across the city of 27,000, to visit dozens of addresses of people reported missing since the fire broke out.
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Lewis said being on the scene was a “sobering experience.”
“It really is something that pictures and video can’t really explain it, like being there,” he said Tuesday. “It was really eerie, felt like something kind of like Armageddon.” The Story continues on Fox news
