The two fires erupted on Thursday as much of the state found itself under red flag warnings of extreme fire danger because of dry weather and blowing winds The fire spread so fast and so furiously that hard-pressed firefighters couldn’t be everywhere at once PARADISE, California: Two monster wildfires in California, including the most destructive in state history, burned out of control on Saturday, having already killed at least nine people, destroyed scores of buildings and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. Nine people were found dead in and around the Northern California town of Paradise, where more than 6,700 homes and businesses were burned down by the 90,000-acre (36,400 hectares) Camp Fire, the state"s most destructive on record, authorities said. "This event was the worst-case scenario. It was the event we have feared for a long time," Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said at a Friday evening press conference. "Regrettably, not everybody made it out." In Paradise, which had about 26,000 residents, the fire destroyed most homes and half the businesses, the town"s mayor Jody Jones said on CNN, describing a long period of recovery ahead. "It"s going to be a process, a lot of hard work, a lot of coming together, but we want to see Paradise be paradise again," Jones told CNN. About 500 miles (800 km) to the south in Los Angeles County, the 35,000-acre (14,100 hectares) Woolsey Fire was threatening thousands of homes and more than 200,000 people were under mandatory evacuation orders early on Saturday. All the residents of Malibu, a posh oceanside enclave that is home to about 13,000 people 30 miles (50 km) west of downtown Los Angeles, were told to get out on Friday. The bodies of two people were discovered in Malibu but it was too early to determine if they died from fire or another cause, the Los Angeles County Sheriff"s Department said in a statement. The fire has destroyed a "significant number" of homes, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said at a news conference on Friday, but officials were still determining how many. Firefighters have been unable to build any containment lines around the Woolsey Fire, but officials said they hoped to take advantage of a lull in winds on Saturday to make progress. President Donald Trump, weighing in on the emergency during a trip to France, said early on Saturday that "gross mismanagement of forests" was to blame. "There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," he wrote in a Twitter post. "Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!" he added. Representatives for Acting California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who was elected on Tuesday to replace Jerry Brown, could not immediately be reached for comment. Trump, a Republican, has previously blamed California officials for fires and threatened to withhold funding, saying the state should do more to remove rotten trees and other debris that fuel blazes. Officials in the state have countered that climate change is the culprit. Last month, after Trump rekindled his criticism of California"s wildfire prevention steps, a spokesman for Brown said Trump"s comments lacked credibility.