regions is the area around reading city and shasta county police there have confirmed the pirates killed two young children and their great grandmother. neighborhoods reduced to ash and rubble the smell of char still hanging in the air some families in this northern california community had only fifteen minutes to flee. so we just took off and i don t remember exactly what they called it it s almost like a tornado with fire in it and it came over the hill and. it wiped out our house and wiped out our next door neighbor s home. firefighters and emergency personnel have been working around the clock to alert residents before the wildfires reached them in shasta county some thirty eight thousand people have been evacuated so far. but with firefighters struggling to contain the fast moving flames the local fire department cautions that it could be