Fatalities have been reported in the California wildfires, Mark Ghilarducci, director of California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, announced in a news conference Friday.
"We know there are fatalities but we really can't put a number on it quite yet," Ghilarducci said.
Officials will provide numbers and details as they become available, he added. It is unclear at this time which fires have claimed lives.
More than 150,000 people have been forced from their homes, and California has requested firefighting assistance from the neighboring states of Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Washington, Ghilarducci said.