More homes destroyed as another California wildfire strikes
Another wildfire was unleashed in California which destroyed 1,050 homes north of San Francisco﻿ and made it the fourth worst wildfire in the state's history as the number of homes destroyed in the last two wildfires reached 1,600. F﻿﻿irefighters found another body which takes﻿﻿﻿ the total deaths from the wildfires is﻿ six people.

A devastating wildfire north of San Francisco has destroyed another 162 homes, raising the number of homes destroyed to 1,050 and making it the fourth worst wildfire in the state's history.

The total number of homes destroyed in two wildfires burning in Northern California to nearly 1,600, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.

Those fires killed five people, and on Sunday authorities announced that a body was found in the ashes of a wildfire in Monterey County that destroyed or damaged 10 homes.

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A massive blaze takes hold at a home following the 'Valley Fire' near Middletown, California on September 15 - the total number of homes destroyed in two wildfires burning in Northern California is 1,600

The raging fires have killed five people and on Sunday authorities announced that they found another body

Firefighter Sean Norman, left, and search dog handlers Lynne Engelbert, left, and Mary Cablk look over the remains of a home in the Anderson Springs area

Firefighters found the man's body inside a charred vehicle after the fire began Saturday near the community of Jamesburg.

Investigators were investigating his death as a possible suicide, Monterey County Sheriff's spokesman John Thornburg said.

A firefighter lost his home while battling the blaze, said Eric Walters, a spokesman for the Cachagua Fire Protection District.

'I was out fighting the fire on the other end, and then my whole place burned down,' Bob Eaton, a volunteer firefighter with the Cachagua Fire Protection District, told the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

'My parent's house, right below me, it burned down. And my neighbors up on top, their place is burned down.'

Business owner Larry Menzio looks at the remnants of his destroyed auto business after the Valley Fire swept through the town of Middletown, California

Firefighters search for victims in the rubble of a home burnt by the Valley Fire in Middletown, California, 1,050 homes have burned in Lake County

Eaton said firefighters' quick response to the blaze wasn't enough to save some of the homes. 'It just went so damn fast,' he said of the spread of the fire.

The blaze was one of 10 active wildfires Sunday, most of them in Northern California that continue to threaten thousand more homes.

Damage-assessment teams have counted 1,050 homes burned in Lake County, many of them in the town of Middletown, CalFire spokesman Daniel Berlant said.

The teams have completed about 80 percent of damage assessment, focusing largely on homes, Berlant said. They have not determined how many additional structures, such as sheds, barns and other outbuildings, were destroyed.

Destroyed vehicles sit abandoned after the California wildfire caused a trail of destruction in the area

A vehicle is burnt out in California where the fire has consumed over 60,000 acres of land

The fire, which killed at least three people and charred 118 square miles was 69 percent contained.

About 6,500 homes remained threatened by the fire, considered the fourth worst fire in California history based on total structures burned.

Remnants of a destroyed home smoulders after fire tore through parts of northern California in September

The entrance of a home is destroyed by a devastating blaze that has caused both death and destruction

A 1991 fire in the Oakland Hills ranks as California's deadliest fire and its worst in the number of structures (2,900) destroyed.

Meanwhile, another 545 homes were destroyed by a separate blaze that killed at least two people and that has burned 110 square miles in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

That blaze was 72 percent contained Sunday. Even though it continued to threaten thousands of structures, all evacuation orders were lifted.

The ruins of a home are pictured here, in California, as active wildfires continue to threaten other homes

Burnt leaves are pictured outside a house after raging wildfires spread in the northern part of the state