Missing Grandmother, 2 Children Confirmed Dead in Carr Fire
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REDDING (CBS/AP) — Family members say three people missing in the Carr Fire have been confirmed dead.
Sherry Bledsoe said Saturday that her two children and her grandmother died in the fire near Redding.
The fatalities bring the death toll to five since the massive blaze started burning Monday about 100 miles south of the Oregon border.
The dead were identified as 70-year-old Melody Bledsoe and her great-grandchildren, 5-year-old James Roberts and 4-year-old Emily Roberts.
Family members had been desperately looking for them since flames leveled the home where they were stranded on Thursday.
Bledsoe’s husband was out getting supplies at the store when the boy called him and said he needed to get home because the fire was approaching.
Donald Kewley, the boyfriend of Bledsoe’s granddaughter, Shelley Hoskinson, lives near the Quartz Hill neighborhood and said he called to check on the family as he saw the flames closing in.
“She was screaming, “It’s getting closer,” and you could hear the sirens,” Kewley told the San Francisco Chronicle. “Then the phone went dead.”
Kewley returned to the burned out neighborhood on Friday afternoon.
“We went back there and the whole neighborhood is gone,” he told the paper. “It’s absolutely obliterated. It’s just a smoldering mess.”
Bledsoe told CBS 13 he didn’t know how he will carry on if the three had fallen victim to the flames.
“I just don’t see how I can go without them,” he said with emotion rippling through his voice. “Somebody has to know where they’re at,”
If the Red Cross does not have a record of your loved one, you call the missing person hotline at 530-225-4277. This is for the City of Redding and for unincorporatedShastaCounty.
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https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/07/28/desperate-search-for-grandmother-children-missing-in-carr-fire/
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