California's Mendocino Complex fires explode to cover 230,000 acres

Another person was killed by California's massive Carr Fire Saturday, officials reported, bringing the death toll to seven. The most recent victim was a power company lineman whose identity has not been made public. The wildfire has burned more than 155,000 acres in a two-week span, displacing 35,000 people and destroying more than 1,500 buildings.

Meanwhile, the Mendocino Complex, a pair of fires about 150 miles south of the Carr Fire's Redding-area burn zone, exploded to cover 230,000 acres by Sunday morning.

The Mendocino Complex fires are now the sixth-largest wildfire in recorded California history, but, so far, have destroyed far fewer buildings than the Carr Fire.

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