More than 600 missing feared dead in California wildfires after entire town was destroyed

More than 600 missing feared dead in California wildfires after entire town was destroyed

  At least 63 people have died in a Northern California wildfire while 631 people are sill unaccounted for, authorities have said. 

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea revealed the increased missing persons total at a news conference on Thursday, having put the figure at 130 just a day earlier. 

Mr Honea said the original total was a partial count, and that after authorities went back through all emergency calls and other reports of missing people from the past week, they came up with the new number.