CA CA - Sara Martinez-Fabila, 51, Paradise, Camp Fire, Nov 2018

[JerseyGirl]

In November 2018, Sara Martinez-Fabila, 51, was living in Paradise, California, when the Camp Fire destroyed nearly the entire town and killed 85 people.

A year after the fire swept through town, Butte County sheriff's officials said there is only one person that remains unaccounted for from the fire: Sara Martinez-Fabila.

Sheriff's officials aren't even sure she was in Paradise the day the fire swept through. Her last known address was a post office box in Paradise, and her family has not heard from her since the fire.

There is evidence that she wasn't killed in the blaze.

On Dec. 13, about a month after the fire, the sheriff's office received a tip from a manager at a motel in Brownsville, California, that a woman named Sara Martinez tried to book a room for the night. A sherrif's detective went to the motel and showed the manager a photo of Martinez-Fabila and she confirmed it was her. Since then, the leads have dried up.

A mother of five children, she had difficulty with drug abuse and mental illness, and she lost custody of her kids.

Camp Fire: Sara Martinez-Fabila remains the last person missing

 

[bykerladi]

I wonder why she would leave. Sounds like she turned her life around and was getting ahead.

 

[Gardener1850]

OT: There is one unidentified set of remains found after the Camp Fire, however those remains were determined to be male: CA - CA - Butte Co, Male, Victim #53 of Camp Fire, In Burned Home on Schwyhart Ln, Concow, Nov 2018

 

[ADKGemini]

She was added to the Charley Project: Sara Martinez-Fabila – The Charley Project

Details of Disappearance
Martinez-Fabila was initially reported missing in November 2018, after the Camp Fire destroyed almost the entire town of Paradise, California, where she lived, and killed 85 people.

Camp Fire was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. Her last mailing address was a post office in Paradise, and when her family was unable to get in touch with her after the disaster, they reported her missing. They had not heard from her since weeks prior to the fire.

She is the only one of the people reported missing in the aftermath of the Camp Fire who is still unaccounted for. However, investigators are not sure whether Martinez-Fabila was still living in Paradise when the disaster happened.

It wasn't uncharacteristic of her to be out of touch with her family for extended time periods. She had had a hard life, including years of problems with domestic violence, substance abuse and mental illness, and had lost custody of all five of her children. (They were adopted by her relatives.) However, a few years prior to her disappearance she went through an eighteen-month treatment program and resolved to turn her life around and stay on her psychiatric medication. She hoped to attend Chico State University.

About a month after the fire, on December 13, 2018, Martinez-Fabila was sighted when she attempted to check in for the night at the Brownsville Motel in Brownsville, California. She used the name Sara Martinez, and the manager later recognized her photograph and confirmed this was her.

The manager told Martinez-Fabila that the motel had no room available for her; all of them had been taken by people displaced by the Camp Fire. The manager suggested she ask the Red Cross for shelter, offered her food and water, and said if necessary she could sleep in her car in the motel parking lot for the night. Martinez-Fabila refused any assistance, however, and said she didn't want to sign up for any services because she "didn't want to be found." She drove away in what the manager called "an old beater car."

Martinez-Fabila has not been seen or heard from since she left the motel in Brownsville. Police would like to account for her whereabouts and well-being.

 

[TatianaBarbie]

From the AG of California:

Sara Martinez Fabila

 

[mrz]

Rooting for you Sara.

 

[Darling136]

From the AG of California:

Sara Martinez Fabila

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Never seen a California AG missing page with such mistakes in the last seen date

 

[mrz]

Never seen a California AG missing page with such mistakes in the last seen date

2016,2017,2018??

 

[Caring1]

Sara has been added to NamUs.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The Butte County Sheriff's Office is still looking for a woman reported missing in 2018 amid the Camp Fire.

Butte County Sheriff Honea says suspicious circumstances lead investigators to think Sara Martinez Fabila is in danger or no longer alive. Martinez Fabila lived in Paradise and would be 51 years old today.

After the Camp Fire, there were thousands of missing people. But Fabila is one person Honea still has no answer about Honea said they learned something during the investigation that caught their attention.

"We looked at other places and made contact with people who were aware of her, the last person we were able to put her within 2016 is an ex-boyfriend," Honea said.

Honea said the ex claimed the two went on a hike at the flumes in July of 2016 when she disappeared. However, he did not report her disappearance at the time of the hike. Honea says the last time the family had contact with Fabila was also in 2016. Honea said the ex-boyfriend is a person of interest.

Northstate's unsolved mysteries include more than 100 missing people

The California Dept. of Justice website lists more than 3,000 missing people across the state.

www.actionnewsnow.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Unsolved mystery; Paradise woman still missing

The California Department of Justice missing person website says 108 people are missing from our local area. Including Butte, Shasta, Tehama, Glenn, Modoc, Trinity Counties.

www.actionnewsnow.com