[ti:Officials: About 100 People Still Missing after California Fires] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.68]About 100 people are still missing [00:03.72]in the deadliest wildfire in California's history. [00:08.96]Officials have released the names of the missing people. [00:13.28]Many are older people, in their 80s and 90s. [00:19.37]The fires, near both ends of the state, [00:23.64]have claimed the lives of at least 51 people, [00:28.61]with 48 dead in Northern California and three in Southern California. [00:36.43]Friends and relatives seeking information [00:41.05]about loved ones posted messages and photos [00:45.96]in the Northern California town of Chico. [00:50.73]"I hope you are okay," read one note. [00:55.48]Another had a picture of a missing man: [00:58.76]"If seen, please have him call." [01:03.28]Sol Bechtold is searching for his 75-year-old mother, Joanne Caddy. [01:10.88]He said some of the missing people [01:13.38]are not on the list released by the government. [01:17.76]Caddy's house burned down along with the rest of Magalia. [01:23.36]The area is just north of Paradise, a town of 27,000, [01:30.32]that was completely destroyed by the fire last week. [01:35.16]Bechtold said he spoke with the sheriff's office Wednesday morning. [01:42.08]They confirmed they have a missing person's case on his mother Caddy. [01:47.84]But Caddy, who lived alone and did not drive, was not on the list. [01:55.20]Greg Gibson was hoping to find information [01:59.80]about his neighbors in Paradise. [02:02.86]He wondered if they had tried to escape [02:05.90]or had stayed a few minutes too long. [02:09.78]Gibson said, "It happened so fast." [02:15.40]He spoke from the Neighborhood Church in Chico. [02:20.12]The church serves as a shelter for some of the more than [02:24.28]1,000 who escaped from the fire. [02:29.36]Harold Taylor is a 72-year-old Vietnam veteran. [02:35.76]Walking with a cane, he said he received a call Thursday morning [02:41.24]to leave immediately as the fire was coming up behind his house. [02:46.72]"We didn't have 10 minutes to get out of there," he said. [02:51.20]"It was already in flames downtown, [02:55.56]all the local restaurants and stuff," he said. [03:00.26]Along the way, he asked his neighbor to get in his car [03:05.88]and leave with him, but the neighbor chose not to. [03:10.20]Taylor does not know what happened to that person. [03:15.04]Before the Paradise fire, [03:18.64]the deadliest single fire on record in California [03:23.24]was in 1933 in Los Angeles' Griffith Park that killed 29 people. [03:32.64]In Southern California, firefighters have made progress [03:38.42]against another huge fire in Malibu. [03:42.76]That fire has killed two people and destroyed over 400 structures. [03:50.56]I'm Mario Ritter. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM