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As Makeshift Camp Fire Shelters Close, Another Chance For Authorities To Check A Shifting List Of The Missing

Monday, November 19, 2018 | Sacramento, CA
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Tera Hickerson, right, and Columbus Holt embrace as they look at a board with information for services at a makeshift encampment outside a Walmart store for people displaced by the Camp Fire, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, in Chico, Calif.

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By Sarah Bohannon and Marc Albert, NSPR

Nearly a thousand people are still unaccounted for following the Camp wildfire. Authorities still consider the list to be somewhat raw as hundreds are just now starting to move out of unofficial shelters.

Here is the missing persons list as of Sunday evening

Sheriff Kory Honea said the missing persons list for the Camp Fire will likely fluctuate daily, for a number of reasons:

  • First, his department is now receiving more reports of people who are missing and who are safe.
  • Second, there could be duplicate names on the list.
  • And third, pop-up evacuation centers – the ones not coordinated by officials – may not all be communicating the names of people they’re hosting.

“If they’re not part of that county system, then it creates that kind of difficulty,” Honea said.

Hundreds remained in tents and vehicles over the weekend at unsanctioned camps adjacent to a Walmart in Chico and on landscaping in front of a nearby Lowe’s. They were told food and clothing distribution, being done by volunteers, would wrap up Sunday.

Officials are pondering how and where to house evacuees through a reconstruction period likely to take years. It’s far from clear where all the new shelters will be, and what type of housing they’ll provide. Chico City Manager Mark Orme said one option is trailers.

Leticia Buitron of Sacramento, who has been helping on her own all week, shepherded evacuees to an official shelter location in Yuba City. She said some are reluctant to leave.

“The reason that the people choose to be here is because most of them have pets," Buitron said. "And most places, the shelters, you can’t take pets, and you can’t be couples and you can’t do this and you can’t do that, that’s why they choose to be out here.”

Some of the unofficial shelters have been working to share information with authorities. The makeshift shelter at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, which closed Sunday, has been sharing names with the county.

Pastor Tim Ruhl said while they were open, they kept track of the roughly 300 people who were staying there.

“We had the number of the cot they’d slept on, number of the tent they slept in," Ruhl  said. "When they came in, when they went out. If they saw the medical doctor here. If they applied for FEMA or not. We had all those lists making it so we knew exactly the progress.”

This week the American Red Cross began sending out teams of volunteers throughout Chico in search of people who could be marked off of the missing persons list. As pop-up shelters begin to close and evacuees are moved to county-coordinated shelters, officials hope to have another chance to cross-check names and start bringing the number back down.


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