MENDOCINO COUNTY Calif. (KGO) -- The death toll in the North Bay wildfires has increased to 43. The family of a teenager from Redwood Valley confirms she has died.
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Seventeen-year-old Kressa Shepherd died Sunday at a Sacramento hospital. They say a CT scan showed her brain had been dead for some time.
Kressa sustained severe burns in the Redwood Valley fire in Mendocino County. Her 14-year-old brother Kai Logan also died in that fire.
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Her parents are recovering from burns in the hospital.
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