California Wildfires: FEMA focuses on housing survivors as they prepare to spend Christmas holidays in shelters
FEMA spokesman Michael Hart told Meaww that federal and state agencies are working hand-in-hand to get affected families back on their feet
Although rains forecasted over the next few days would help firefighters battling to contain the devastating Camp Fire, there are fears of mudslides which could further complicate recovery efforts. The total death toll has now reached 84, according to a statement by the Butte County Sheriff's Office at a press conference on Thursday.
While the amount of missing people on record has decreased to 563, officials are still struggling to make direct contact with missing persons — a process mandatory for survivors to be checked off the list.
Officials are expecting people to be in shelters through the Christmas holidays after Camp Fire entirely decimated Paradise, a small town with a population of 27,000.
