By Lemor Abrams November 13, 2018 at 6:59 pm Filed Under:Camp Fire, Paradise<\/p>\n
PARADISE (CBS13) \u2014 Search and rescue crews worked for hours Tuesday at the site of an assisted living home, known as Heritage Paradise, which was reduced to a pile of rubble by the Camp Fire.<\/p>\n
Crews wore special gear and gloves so they could go in with their own two hands, moving large pieces of blackened furniture, charred wheelchairs, and gurneys out of the way to get to the victims who may be buried underneath it all.<\/p>\n
David Ramey is a volunteer with Nevada County\u2019s search and rescue team. He says he\u2019s used to searching for missing hikers, but never has he sifted through ash and debris in search of human remains.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt may be that it got too hot and we\u2019re not going to find anything, but you never know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The search is so vast that volunteers are getting a lot of help. Firefighters joined the grim search effort, many of them, just off the front lines.<\/p>\n
Cal Fire Spokesman Manuel Garcia said fatigue really sets in for the firefighters. Garcia says the Heritage Paradise site was just one of the thousands of properties that still need to be searched.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone has to work together to accomplish the mission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s a mission Ramey hasn\u2019t even started to register.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now I don\u2019t think it\u2019s set in the emotional part of it. I\u2019m still kind of looking at this as rubble but that might change at some point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
For now, he said there\u2019s a lot more work to be done. Crews said they did not discover any bodies at that site on Tuesday. But six more human remains were found in Paradise homes, bringing the death toll to 48.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Lemor Abrams November 13, 2018 at 6:59 pm Filed Under:Camp Fire, Paradise PARADISE (CBS13) \u2014 Search and rescue crews worked for hours Tuesday at the site of an assisted living home, known as Heritage Paradise, which was reduced to a pile of rubble by the Camp Fire. Crews wore special gear and gloves so … <\/p>\n