Why all the deaths? I guess I don’t understand why so many are dying.
Lack of communication or an inability to leave?
Most of those killed died on Saturday (it is nearly 2pm Monday, here) The death toll is rising as bodies are found not because people are still dying.
The fire moved at speeds driven by gale force winds. Air temperature 117 F.
It became impossible to drive down roads where the fire moved faster than the vehicles could travel. Within the settlements, I watched a video where a wall of fire fifty feet high moved across a house and wooded lot in four seconds. That was four seconds between all green and totally engulfed.