The body of woman who died in the massive Northern California wildfire was found in bed in a burned house in Concow.
A family friend said Ellen Walker, who was in her 70s, was sick and home alone when the fire began Thursday morning.
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Nancy Breeding said Walker’s husband Lon was at work and had called a neighbor to knock on the door to get his wife to evacuate, but it’s unclear whether she was alert at the time.
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Breeding said Walker’s family had assumed she escaped the inferno until authorities confirmed her death late Friday.
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